Dr. Geoffrey Tabin is Professor of Ophthalmology and Global Medicine at Stanford University and the Byers Eye Institute.[6] He graduated from Yale University and earned a Masters in Philosophy at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship.[citation needed] He received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1985.[citation needed] His background in philosophy and ideas of improving health care delivery came together after a climbing trip to Nepal on which he became the first ophthalmologist to summit Mt.