Brandon Baartman, MD, attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, for his undergraduate degree and graduated with honors from Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. It was during medical school that Dr. Baartman realized his passion for ophthalmology and the true impact of sight-saving surgery around the world through his travels to Honduras, Ghana, and the northernmost region of the Indian Himalayas.