Profile

Consultant Cataract & Glaucoma at The Eye Foundation, Vellore, Tamil Nadu.

Professional Experience: 

• Assistant Professor in Dept. Of Ophthalmology (Dec 2018 to July 2022) at Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu.
• Senior Resident in Dept. Of Ophthalmology (Aug 2018 to Nov 2018) at Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu

Clinical Exposure: 

• Outpatient care in running general OPDs to deal with common ophthalmic ailments and attending specialty clinics (Vitreo-retina, Uvea, Cornea, Glaucoma, Neuro-ophthalmology, Squint, Pediatric ophthalmology and Orbit and oculoplasty) 
• Participation in community ophthalmology programmes including regular OPDs at peripheral health centres and cataract reach-in camps.  
• Surgical training with hands on operating experience as primary surgeon  for cataract surgeries ( Phacoemuslification with foldable IOL implantation, Manual small incision cataract surgery, Extracapsular cataract extraction),  trabeculectomy,  combined Phacoemulsification and trabeculectomy, ECCE +trabeculectomy, bleb needling,  open globe injury repair, lid tear suturing and lasers like Yag Peripheral  iridotomy, Yag capsulotomy and working as first assistant to trained surgeons in ophthalmic surgeries including Ahmed glaucoma valve surgery, Kahook dual blade goniotomy, paediatric glaucoma surgery – external trabeculotomy+trabeculectomy
• Clinical discussions and small group discussions for undergraduate and post graduate students.
• Chairing seminars, bedside discussions for post graduate students

Conferences & CME’s attended: 

• ICON CME 2020 – Christian medical College, Vellore. 
• 4th Annual symposium on cell and gene therapy - Centre for stem  cell research, September 2019.
• Cutting edge Glaucoma Symposium 2019 – Aravind eye hospital, Pondicherry.
• VEL’EYE’ 64th Annual conference of the Tamil Nadu Ophthalmic association 2016.
• The All India Ophthalmological Conference 2014, Agra. 
• The Grand Eye Quest, Chennai 2013, Annual Conference of the Tamil Nadu Ophthalmic Association.
• CORNEA RENCONTRE 2013 at Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, July 2013.
• Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery Convention, Chennai, July 2013.
• Reticon, Chennai, May 2013. 
• CME on Secondary Glaucoma, RIOGOH/MMC, November 2013.
• CME on UVEA 2013 – UVEARIO, RIOGOH/MMC, November 2013. 
• CME on Surgical management of Glaucoma, RIOGOH/ MMC, June 2012. 

Paper and Poster Presentations: 

• Prevalence of Ocular Surface Disease (OSD) in glaucoma patients on long term topical medications - The Grand Eye Quest Chennai 2013, Tamil Nadu Ophthalmic Association.
• Analytical study of the surgical outcome of trabeculectomy with and without collagen implant – The All India Ophthalmological Conference 2014, Agra.
• Microbiological profile for infective keratitis in a tertiary eye care centre in South India – VEL’EYE’ 64th Annual conference of the Tamil Nadu ophthalmic Ophthalmic association 2016.
• Quantifying posterior corneal contour of corneal scar in surgical repair of corneal tear by AS-OCT  - Salem Eyecon 2019- 67th Annual conference of Tamil Nadu Ophthalmic Association.

Publications: 

• An experimental study to test the efficacy of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in reducing corneal scarring in an ex-vivo organ culture model. Eye Res. 2020 Jan; 190:107891. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2019.107891. Rose JS, Lalgudi S, Joshua A, Paul J, Thambaiah A, Wankhar S, Chacko G, Kuriakose T, Korah S.
• A validated audio-visual educational module on examination skills in ophthalmology for undergraduate medical students in the COVID -19 season – An observational longitudinal study. Indian J Ophthalmology. 2021 Feb; 69(2):400-405.doi:10.4103/ijo.IJO_2054_20.PMID:33380618; Rose JS, Lalgudi S, Joshua RA, Paul J, Susanne MA, Phillips AC, Jeyaraj C, Abraham G, Joshua R, Vinay S, Paul P, Amritanand A, Nadaraj A
• Impact of a cross-cultural, inter-professional, ocular disease themed international elective for Australian optometry students -  A pilot study. Current medical Issues- Volume 19, Issue 4, Oct-Dec 2021 P.Pratibha Roy, Kiran Devamani, Aarwin Joshua, Giftus Joshua, R Asha Slecer, V S Shincy Susan, Sharmili Lalgudi, Jeyanth Suresh Rose.

Academic:

• MBBS – Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Karad, Maharashtra
• Diploma Ophthalmology – RIO GOH, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• MS in Ophthalmology – Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, Fellowship in Glaucoma – Sankara Netralaya, Medical Research Foundation, Chennai