Tosh Vadhia, Head of Global Accounts at Heidelberg Engineering joins blindness prevention charity Orbis to help raise awareness of avoidable sight loss
London, 16.12.25 – Through Tosh Vadhia’s support, Heidelberg Engineering has played a key role in supporting Orbis’s mission to end avoidable blindness, focusing on low- and middle-income countries where access to quality eye care is often limited.
Since its inception in 2023, Tosh Vadhia has played a key role in building and strengthening the partnership between Orbis and Heidelberg Engineering. With over 20 years in the eye care sector, he has used his experience and international network to help eye care teams work more effectively and reach more patients. His support has created opportunities for clinicians to learn, connect, and improve patient care, ensuring that the company’s expertise and resources are directed to the places where they are needed most.
Heidelberg Engineering – a leading provider of advanced ophthalmic imaging technologies – has helped to fund vital training opportunities for eye care professionals worldwide through Orbis’s award-winning telemedicine platform, Cybersight.
Cybersight is a boundary-pushing e-learning platform founded by Orbis to improve the knowledge, skills, and expertise of eye health professionals around the world. These live global webinars are especially important for clinicians who may not have access to the same training resources as those in higher-income settings, and who often work in regions affected by conflict or resource shortages.
Alongside training, Heidelberg Engineering has also supported Orbis’s research into retinoblastoma, a serious childhood eye cancer, showing that telemedicine can improve surgical outcomes and directly benefit patient care and survival.
Commenting on his appointment, Tosh Vadhia says: “I’m honoured to be appointed as an Orbis UK Ambassador, and to support their vital work in ending avoidable blindness worldwide. Through our partnership, Heidelberg Engineering helps train and support eye care professionals in regions where access to resources and expertise is limited. As an Ambassador, I look forward to strengthening Heidelberg Engineering’s support, engaging in Orbis’s campaigns, and raising awareness of the importance of eye care globally.”
Celebrating Tosh Vadhia’s new role as an Orbis Ambassador, Orbis UK CEO Rebecca Cronin says: “We are delighted to welcome Tosh Vadhia as an Orbis Ambassador. Tosh has been helping to bring vital training and resources to eye care professionals in low- and middle-income countries. His commitment to leveraging technology and education to improve patient outcomes aligns perfectly with Orbis’s mission. As an Ambassador, Tosh will play an important role in our campaigns and initiatives, helping to inspire, support and ensure more clinicians around the world have the knowledge and tools they need to save sight.”
An expanded partnership
Earlier this year, Orbis and Heidelberg Engineering announced an expanded partnership to make training and resources more accessible to eye care professionals worldwide. The company helped to deliver four additional Cybersight webinars in 2025 on topics including diagnosing eye conditions, such as glaucoma, and improving surgical techniques.
The collaboration also includes a new clinical project in Lusaka, Zambia, where Heidelberg Engineering will deploy its ANTERION imaging system to support pre-operative eye scans, helping clinicians make cataract surgery safer and more precise.
To learn more about Tosh Vadhia and Orbis’s current Ambassadors, visit: https://gbr.orbis.org/en/about-us/orbis-uk-ambassadors
About Orbis
Orbis is a leading global charity that is a pioneer in the prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness for over four decades. Orbis transforms lives by delivering the skills, resources and knowledge needed to deliver accessible quality eye care. Working in collaboration with local partners, including hospitals, universities, government agencies and ministries of health, Orbis provides hands-on training, strengthens healthcare infrastructure and advocates for the prioritisation of eye health on public health agendas. Orbis operates the world’s only fully accredited Flying Eye Hospital, an ophthalmic teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft, and an award-winning telemedicine platform, Cybersight. www.orbis.org.uk
About Heidelberg Engineering
Heidelberg Engineering pioneers imaging and data technologies to optimize ophthalmic solutions that empower eye care professionals who want to improve the holistic health of patients. Since 1990, uncompromising quality and education play a large part in fostering the diagnostic confidence that has become synonymous with the global brand. The SPECTRALIS multi-modal imaging platform for the posterior segment offers unparalleled retinal image quality and reproducibility, supporting the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma, AMD, diabetic retinopathy and many other retinal diseases. The ANTERION multi-disciplinary imaging platform is an easy-to-use, all-in-one anterior segment solution, with all measurements based solely on high-quality OCT technology. The HEYEX 2 image management and device integration platform manages all diagnostic images and supports workflow efficiency with standardized data and interfaces. www.heidelbergengineering.com
Media Contacts
Orbis UK
Rose Comber
Josefine van ‘t Hof, Global Team Lead Marketing Communications, Heidelberg Engineering
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