The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital has been airborne since the early ‘80s, bringing its teaching hospital to parts of the world with limited access to quality ophthalmic training. The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital – a state-of-the-art teaching facility that is complete with an operating room, classroom, and recovery room – allows the Orbis Volunteer Faculty to travel the world sharing knowledge and developing the skills of local eye care teams. Orbis operates the world’s only Orbis Flying Eye Hospital, a fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft. The Orbis integration team, led by Audio Visual Specialist Jangaiah Chalamala with chief consultant Lincoln King-Cliby, commercial market director for ControlWorks Consulting, LLC, recently wrapped up months of work to retrofit the entire hospital.Ī leader in the fight against avoidable blindness for four decades, Orbis is an international nonprofit that trains, mentors, and inspires eye care professionals in places with the greatest need so they can save and restore vision in their communities.
The integration of that technology into a plane - specifically, a McDonnell Douglas MD-10 - is a massively complex undertaking involving cabling and heat mitigation in extremely tight spaces, power generation and conditioning in a wide variety of locales, weight reduction, and a host of other challenges. That encounter piqued George’s interest - and inspired him to lead the effort to donate more than $300,000 worth of Crestron products to the organization. “On one visit to the annual airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, he stumbled upon the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital,” the younger Feldstein recalled.
His father - Crestron founder George Feldstein - was an avid pilot and an aviation enthusiast. In 2017, Crestron CEO Dan Feldstein (then COO) spoke about his dad’s interest in a nonprofit called Orbis International.
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