Project Vision Hawaii announces new executive director

Project Vision Hawaii, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving access to healthcare for people throughout Hawaii, announces the hiring of Darrah Kamakanaaloha Kauhane as its new executive director. Kauhane assumed her executive duties in early February. 

“Darrah Kauhane brings rich experience in health and eye care to PVH, as well as a commitment to the non-profit sector in Hawai‘i and around the globe,” said outgoing executive director and co-founder Elizabeth “Annie” Valentin. “We could not have asked for a better candidate to shepherd Project Vision into the future.”

Kauhane will maintain her position as executive director of the Hawaiian Eye Foundation during the transition. She has lead the organization in providing eye-care services to underserved blind patients in Hawaii and in developing nations since September 2016.

Kauhane, who grew up on Oahu and attended Iolani School, holds a master’s degree in developmental and reproductive biology from the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a bachelor’s degree in public health and community medicine from the University of Washington. In 2021, she will earn a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Valentin is leaving PVH after 10 years to pursue a new opportunity within the health care system.

Project Vision Hawaii, founded in 2007, has the only mobile health screening programs that provide statewide services in communities with significant access-to-care challenges related to income, lack of insurance, geographical location, or cultural conflict. To date, Project Vision Hawaii has provided free medical screening services to more than 115,000 patients across the state, including high populations of seniors, children from low-income families, immigrants, and individuals with disabilities.

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