{"id":6997,"date":"2025-03-31T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/?p=6997"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:10:31","slug":"dr-andrew-blaikie-elected-to-iapb-board-of-trustees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/dr-andrew-blaikie-elected-to-iapb-board-of-trustees\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Andrew Blaikie elected to IAPB Board of Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6998\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6998 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/04\/Andrew-Blaikie-IAPB-Trustee-1024x547.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"280\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Andrew Blaikie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senior Lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/people\/ab312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Andrew Blaikie<\/a> has been elected as a Trustee on the board of the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iapb.org%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cmedschooladmin%40st-andrews.ac.uk%7Cf6235e9501a6404f5a2708dd6ddf2e3d%7Cf85626cb0da849d3aa5864ef678ef01a%7C0%7C0%7C638787527509906330%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2F50RwOzaOgw4crsrZ7%2BYI88iVRIKb8hZ0ZEOOGwNcDs%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)<\/a>, of which the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arclight\/devices\/arclight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arclight Project<\/a> is a member.<\/p>\n<p>The clinical lead for the Arclight Project and a long-standing advocate for accessible eye care, Dr Blaikie will attend his first board meeting in April during the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iapb.world\/2030_in_sight_live_nepal_intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> IAPB In Sight Live<\/a> event in Kathmandu, Nepal. The event will bring together global eye health professionals to collaborate on strategies to improve vision care and access.<\/p>\n<p>In his new role, Dr Blaikie will represent the Arclight Project and support IAPB\u2019s mission to eliminate avoidable blindness.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Blaikie said he looks forward to contributing to the work of the board and supporting practical, collaborative approaches to global eye health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer Dr Andrew Blaikie has been elected as a Trustee on the board of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), of which the Arclight Project is a member. The clinical lead for the Arclight Project and a long-standing advocate for accessible eye care, Dr Blaikie will attend his first board meeting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 15:42:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}