IPPNW donor spotlight: Gislin Dagnelie

This article was originally published on IPPNW’s bi-annual newsletter Vital Signs

Dr. Gislin Dagnelie first became aware of IPPNW when he was still living in his homeland: the Netherlands. His father was a pulmonologist who eventually served on the Dutch IPPNW board of directors and traveled to international conferences, including to Leningrad, where he joined with Russian doctors also working for peace.

As a young man, Gislin was a conscientious objector and began supporting IPPNW financially soon after it was founded in 1980. When he moved to the United States to become a professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, he continued to support IPPNW, then deepened his commitment as a monthly donor in 2007.

The research that Dr. Dagnelie conducts lies on the borderline between technology and medicine, utilizing his training as medical physicist and vision researcher, to help blind people see with the use of electronic eye and brain implants. His research also measures and quantifies patients’ visual capabilities, assisting with tracking their improvement.

Gislin Dagnelie believes, “IPPNW is unique because it views the risk of nuclear war as a health risk. The educational work it has been doing for decades is very important.”

Thank you, Dr. Dagnelie, for your dedication to helping create a more peaceful world for all of us.

Contact Cynthia Hurst, Director of Development, at churst@ippnw.org or visit ippnw.org/donate to learn how you can support IPPNW.