Profile
Current Position:
Senior Consultant Cataract, Glaucoma & Medical Retina at The Eye Foundation, Erode, Tamil Nadu.
Experience
- Worked at Aravind Eye Hospital, Coimbatore for 2years as Consultant Cataract, General Ophthalmology and Neuro Ophthalmology.
- Worked as Chief Medical Officer at Aravind Eye Hospital, Tiruppur for 1 year.
Profile:
- Surgical trainer for national and international trainees.
- Teaching faculty for Post graduates and Fellows.
- Topical phacoemulsification - Monofocal /Multifocal/ Toric IOLs.
- Topical pterygium surgery.
- Secondary IOL (SFIOL, IRIS CLAW)
- Trabeculectomy surgery
- Dacryocystorhinostomy surgery (external).
Medical Retina:
- Diabetic retinopathy treatment with panretinal photocoagulation.
- Intravitreal Anti vegf / Steroids injection.
- Lasers.
Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgeries:
- I stent trabecular micro bypass
- KDB glide goniotomy
- Bent ab interno needle gonioectomy (BANG)
Paper & Poster Presentations:
- Neuro ophthalmology - OCT in differentiating NAION and optic neuritis in Acute phase at AIOS 2018.
- General ophthalmology - Posterior capsular opacification Vs IOL material & design at AIOS 2018.
- Poster presentations, Microsporidial Keratitis in South Indian population.
- TNOA 2016, Gold medal in Critical care Quiz and ECG interpretation held at AJ -2011 (state level).
Awards:
- Acute changes in ganglion cell layer thickness in ischemic optic neuropathy compared to optic neuritis using optical coherence tomography (NOPH-2018-0153) Dr. Vijay Kumar and Dr. Peter MacIntosh in Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology.
- Best outgoing critical care fellow @ Fortis Chennai 2012.
Academic:
- MBBS (2002) from K. A. P. Viswanathan Government Medical College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu.
- MS (2013) from Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
- FICO (A & B), Fellow in International Council of Ophthalmology, UK.
- Fellowship in Critical care (Fortis - American Heart Association Accredited)
