Photo: Left to Right: Kenneth Roberts, also a board member of SoH, Inc. a nonprofit; Varvara Boryushkina MD, Primary Care Mather Medical Group; Mahmoud Yaseen MD, Internal Medicine Resident; Manu Dwivedi MD, Internal Medicine Resident ; Iryna Ilyasova MD, Hospitalist; Kati Giacobbe RN, Emergency Department; Melissa Monaghan RN, Endoscopy; George Coritsidis MD, Chair of Internal Medicine and SoH board member; and Joseph Ng MD, Medical Director, Mather Hospital, and SoH board member.
Retired Mather Hospital President Kenneth Roberts along with four attending physicians, two internal medicine residents and two registered nurses from Mather were part of Sights on Health, Inc. (SoH,Inc.) Cataract Surgical & Medical Missions to Riobamba, Ecuador from May 17 -23, 2025. Working with a local NGO, the team of 35 healthcare professionals from across the USA performed 91 sight-restoring eye surgeries and examined close to 1,000 adults and children in remote villages in the Chimborazo region.
Written by Mather Hospital