Dr. Kenneth A. Pickar

Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Joel Segre is a biomedical engineer who is working with David Green and Project Impact on the transfer of technology to produce affordable, foldable intraocular lenses (IOLs) to ameliorate cataracts which are the main cause of blindness. This work is being done with Aurolab in India, the first non-profit manufacturing facility in a developing country.

 

Project Impact, Inc., founded by David Green, is a non-profit organization dedicated to making medical technology and health care services accessible, affordable, and financially self-sustaining. Part of the International Federation of Impact Foundations, Project Impact focuses its efforts on avoidable disabilities-- most recently those relating to sight and  hearing. Disability is often both a cause and consequence of poverty. Project Impact puts the disabled back on their feet and on their way back to economic independence.

 

Project Impact’s work embodies the economic paradigm of ‘compassionate capitalism’, which emphasizes utilizing production capacity and surplus revenue to serve all economic strata, rich and poor alike, in a way that is both financially self-sustaining and affordable to all members of society. It is philanthropy bypassing the middleman. In this paradigm, profit is the means to an end, not the other way around.

Project Impact

Joel Segre