SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — A University of Utah doctor recently returned from a three-week trip to Mongolia where she performed eye surgeries and helped train medical professionals — aboard a plane.
Dr. H. Joon Kim is an ophthalmologist who moved from Atlanta to Utah earlier this year to work as an oculoplastic surgeon at the U of U’s John A. Moran Eye Center . While she recently moved states, one thing has remained consistent: her work on the Flying Eye Hospital.
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The Flying Eye Hospital is part of a nonprofit named Orbis, and is referred to by its organization’s website as “the marriage between medicine and aviation.”
The nonprofit orchestrates medical trips on an MD-10 aircraft — formerly used for cargo — to transport a functional hospital setting to areas in the world that need eye care training and services.
Kim has traveled with the Orbis aircraft since 2017, with the most recent trip being to Mongolia.