The team at Moore Eye has a long history of providing community service wherever and whenever it is needed in the Delaware Valley and internationally. This is and will always be our committment to patients in need.
Dr. Leonard Ginsburg has dedicated his entire life to helping others. In fact, in 1985, he was the National Chairman of the International Association of University Students at the International Association of University Meeting that brought together 800 universities in 120 nations. On his board was the President of the University of Baghdad and Tel Aviv. He had been quoted in the Los Angeles Times as stating that there is international cooperation in medicine, sports and arts, why not education? The New York Times commented his founding of the American Association of University Students was the first American student think tank. President Ronald Reagan stated, “Your association is playing a key role in American higher education at a time of immense importance to our country’s progress and security. Your efforts to expand the growth of individuals through participation in student government, athletics and community projects add strength to our campuses and holds bright promise for the future of our cities and towns. You have my very best wishes as you continue this work of vital significance to higher education and to the Nation.” Motivated by family members who are blind, he founded both the Moore Eye Institute and became one of the few retina surgeons in the world to create a federally approved, non-profit foundation, Moore Eye Foundation for rehabilitation, education and indigent care. He has received numerous awards for his service to homeless shelters and for his excellence in care. It is not surprising that he has become this dedicated since the apple does not fall from the tree. The Ideal Physician Award at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School was named after his grandfather, and the Soul of Medicine Award is named after his brother, Ken Ginsburg, who now runs the Resilience Training Program for the United States military’s 3 million children.
Dr. Nancy Crawford spent two years in the Public Health Service and has traveled to England and Guatemala to treat indigent patients. More locally, she spearheaded a program and arranged for eye doctors from throughout Chester County, Pennsylvania to tend to patients in the town of Coatesville, Pa. who were without insurance after a string of arson fires. She is a strong promoter of patient education and frequently lectures at community events, and she has organized and participated in many glaucoma screenings across the region.
Dr. Cynthia Alley has participated in numerous eye surgical missions across the world over the past ten years. In fact, it was her father who is the acclaimed founder of the World Blindness Outreach in 1990. The mission of the organization is to alleviate preventable blindness in indigent populations of the world. Since its inception, the organization has conducted more than 65 missions to more than 20 countries throughout the world, and has performed more than 6,000 sight-restoring operations. Early in her career, Dr. Alley performed adult cataract surgery in dozens of missions through the world. Since her fellowship training in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus surgery, she now performs primarily strabismus surgery on patients of all ages, and cataract surgery on infants and children. She recently returned from her mission in Ecuador where the surgical team performed over 200 cataract and strabismus operations. All of the surgery was performed on patients who otherwise do not have the financial means to afford the surgery, or do not have access to medical care.
Dr. Melissa Iglesias believes so strongly in serving her country that she did her residency training with the Army at Walter Reed Army Medical Center several years ago. She spent three years caring for injured soldiers and veterans from both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She then went on to continue to serve her country for three years in Fort Jackson South Carolina as the assistant chief of surgery while also rebuilding an ophthalmology service. She is truly a person who gives of her heart and puts patients first.
Dr. Ken Heist is both board-certified in family medicine and ophthalmology. Only a handful of doctors in America have this distinction. He exemplifies the whole-body approach that Moore offers. He has risen to become the Program Director of the Ophthalmology Residency Program at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, but his goals in teaching are to give back, whether it be his working at the Sydney Hillman Medical Center in Philadelphia where patients have limited insurance or seeing patients in his office without regard for insurance. For 18 years, he has organized free sports clinics and community health programs.
Dr. Richard Brilliant has dedicated his life to helping others. He spends hours with patients who even have no insurance to maximize their vision when most other centers would give up. He is world renowned for inventing special devices to help patients who, before they came to him, could not see.
Dr. Georgia Crozier like the other doctors at Moore, will do anything to help others. Little wonder, she was the first optometrist to be selected by the federal government to receive a Masters of Science of Vision Rehabilitation and complete a low vision residency. She is a consultant for the Veterans Administration for the homebound visually impaired veterans, and a consultant for the state for visually impaired students and adults.