Luxme Hariharan
Chief of Ophthalmology and Chief Population Health Officer Dayton Childrens Hospital @Dayton Children's Hospital
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WORK HISTORY
Chief of Ophthalmology and Chief Population Health Officer Dayton Childrens Hospital @Dayton Children's Hospital
Dayton, OH, US
Building a division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Optometry, Opticians and Childhood blindness prevention at Dayton Childrens Hospital. We are reinventing the pathway to eye health for children in Dayton -from prevention, to early detection, to screening, glasses, access, surgery and integrated care. The one stop shop to all of your child\'s eye care needs.
EDUCATION
The Johns Hopkins University
Masters of Public Health, International Health, Child Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology and Latin American Caribbean & Iberian Studies
SUNY Downstate
Pediatrics Preliminary Year, Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
Ophthalmology Residency Training, Ophthalmology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doctor of Medicine (MD), BS
SKILLS
ABOUT LUXME HARIHARAN
Luxme Hariharan abides by her grandmother’s wisdom, “from those to whom much is given, much is to be expected”. She was born in Hyderabad, India, lived in Nairobi, Kenya and grew up in Madison, WI. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin Madison majoring in Spanish & Latin American & Caribbean Studies, her medical degree at the University of Wisconsin and a Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with an emphasis on global and child health. She completed at internship in Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY prior to moving to Philadelphia for residency. Luxme has a passion in international health and policy, and is fluent in Spanish & Tamil and conversational in Hindi & French. She has experience creating tobacco control guidelines with the World Health Organization, and has lobbied for health care legislation in Harrisburg, PA and Washington DC on behalf of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Academy of Ophthalmology, respectively. She has traveled to El Salvador, Niger, India and Argentina to work with the Ministries of Health, NGO\'s and UNICEF on childhood blindness prevention programs and policies. Her goal is to advocate for children worldwide and to create effective programs & policies to help prevent avoidable causes of childhood blindness both locally and abroad.
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