2021-2022 VISIONARIES INTERNATIONAL TRAINING GRANT
Dr Dalin Piseth Chea from Phnom Penh, Cambodia is awarded the 2021-2022 Visionaries International Training Grant
Dr Dalin Piseth Chea is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Visionaries International Training Grant, which supports one year of cornea fellowship training in the United States for an international ophthalmologist. Dr. Chea, who is an ophthalmologist at the Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is one of only four cornea fellowship-trained specialists in Cambodia. Following the completion of her ophthalmology residency training at the University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, she obtained a Master of Public Health from University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia and a Specialist Certificate in Eye Banking from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Following the completion of her Cornea Fellowship training at the Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr Chea plans to return to a faculty position at the Calmette Hospital and develop the first eye bank in Cambodia.