2024 Honoree Martin Spencer, MD
The ASCRS Foundation is proud to announce Martin Spencer, MD as the 2024 Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award Recipient.
Dr. Spencer has always placed a lot of emphasis on teaching in his volunteer work and has thought of it in terms of ripples in the ocean of blindness. “The ripples from teaching spread much further than any specific direct intervention.”
Dr. Spencer was “just dumbfounded” when finding out that he was selected as the recipient of the Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award. “I was not in a million years expecting this,” he said. “I didn’t know anyone was aware of my work with Seva. I’ve spoken at meetings, but they’re not usually huge audiences. I’m very honored and surprised.”
Seva, he said, is a Sanskrit word that means ‘service.’ “To me, it means service without expecting anything back,” he said. “I don’t expect people to say, ‘Oh, isn’t it nice what you’re doing.’ It’s icing on the cake and nice to get the recognition.”
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