eyelights NABL Accreditation NABH Accreditation for Sankara Nethralaya Main Number : 66 June 2014 XI Dr.Nagamani Economics Inaugural of Dream comes Dharmapuri wizard UVEA true at Endowment 4 addresses 5 department 6 Drashti 7 Lecture SN at SN Nethralaya Dr S S Badrinath felicitated at AVRTT 2014 Sankara Nethralaya’s passion for service is now a national record! eyelights June 2014 R e c o g n i t i o n s & A w a r d s International accolade Dr SS.Badrinath felicitated at Advanced Vitreo Retinal Techniques and Technology 2014 (AVRTT 2014) at Ahmedabad for for Contact Lens Head his valuable contributions to the field T h e International Association of Contact L e n s E d u c a t o r s ' has chosen Dr Rajeswari Mahadevan the dynamic Contact Lens d e p a r t m e n t h e a d a t Sankara Nethralaya as the Dr SS Badrinath, Chairman Emeritus, Sankara Nethralaya at AVRTT 2014, Ahmedabad. recipient of the first It is more than 36 years since a young doctor considered as one of the best Vitreo 'IACLE Contact lens retinal surgeons of his time came back from the US to serve his motherland, his educator of the Year' award passion and dream manifested as Sankara Nethralaya. Nothing fascinates for the Asia Pacific region. Dr SS.Badrinath to this day than his field of specialization, a man who does not miss The IACLE award is an opportunity to keep himself abreast, he participated in the Advanced Vitreo sponsored by Cooper Retinal Techniques and Technology 2014 (AVRT 2014) at Ahmedabad where he was Vision and supported by being felicitated for the contributions to the development of 'Retina Vitreous the British Contact lens Specialty' in India. He was participating at the invite of his old friend and veteran Association.This year's Vitreo retinal surgeon Dr Pran Nagpal and his sons Dr Manish and Dr Ashish Nagpal award would be presented of the Retina Foundation, Ahmedabad. at the 'British Contact Lens a s s o c i a t i o n C l i n i c a l Sankara Nethralaya's passion for service is now a proud record Conference & Exhibition’ on the 'Limca Book of Records' a t B i r m i n g h a m , U K In keeping with the Sankara Nethralaya philosophy, the Elite scheduled to take place School of Optometry engages itself in delivering cost free from the 6th to 9th June community ophthalmology in the form of high quality, 2014. comprehensive eye screenings. The 8th of October 2012 turned out to be a Red Letter Day for the ESO. The optometrists, optometry LISTER Metropolis students and members of the Lions Club numbering 123 grouped Awards themselves into 15 teams and fanned off to 38 corporation schools spread over Royapuram, Washermanpet, Adayar, Taramani, Velacheri and Thiruvanmiyur. A massive 8469 students were screened for refractive errors followed by distribution of free glasses and referral of complex cases to the base hospital. This herculean effort has been recognized by the prestigious 'Limca Book of Records' as a national record, for the highest number of eye screenings in a day. Senior Consultants from SN make a mark at Sankara Nation's prestigious Ophthalmic meet. Nethralaya Staff members of the Main Prof Dr. Jyotirmay Biswas, Director, Uveitis pays laboratory at the Sankara and Ocular Pathology Department won the homage to Nethralaya bagged 3 'Best Paper on Uvea' for his presentation titled awards in the midst of stiff "Polymerase Chain Reaction ( PCR) of competition in the recently intraocular fluid for Mycobacterium h e l d ( 1 / 0 2 / 2 0 1 4 ) Tuberculosis (MTB) in various types of “Environment Health and choroiditis in a referral eye centre in India" Safety CME” conducted by and the white Paper titled "Diffusion weighted METROSPHERES the imaging - A Predictor of Visual Outcome in education initiative of acute optic neuritis” presented jointly by Dr KP Misra LISTER Metropolis and D r . S . A m b i k a , D i r e c t o r , N e u r o - Cardiologist, the Inter Laboratory Ophthalmology and Dr. Veena Noronha, Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneshwar Q u a l i t y A s s e s s m e n t Consultant Radiologist were awarded the prestigious 'S.D.ATHWALE Award'. Neuro- (ILQA), Bangalore. Sri. Rusthom S Gae Ophthalmology dept has won the 'Best Paper" Eminent Tax Lawyer, Delhi award on four occasions in the last 5 years. 2 Sankara Nethralaya explores the power of collaborative learning The Elite School of Optometry joined hands with the University of Melbourne and the Indian Institute of Science to conduct a Workshop on 'Vision and Visual Neuroscience- Basic and Translational between the 8th- 10th of January 2014. The event witnessed the participation of 150 delegates and leading Neuroscience and Ophthalmology professionals. This included a team from the University of Melbourne's Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences, consisting of Professor Trichur R.Vidyasagar, head of the Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Associate Professor Allison Mckendrick, who heads the Clinical Psychophysics Unit, Associate Professor Andrew Metha, whose lab images living retinas, Dr Andrew Anderson, whose Optological Unit studies perimetry, eye movements and neural decision making and Dr Bang Participants at the Vision and Visual Neuroscience Workshop Bui, head of the Ocular Physiology Unit that studies risk factors in glaucoma and diabetes. Visual Neuroscience at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was represented by Professor Govindarajan Rangarajan, Department of Mathematics and coordinator, DST Centre for Mathematical Biology and Dr S.P.Arun, Assistant Professor & Wellcome - DBT Intermediate Fellow, Center for Neuroscience. Prof Vidyasagar began the first day's proceedings with high words of praise for Dr Badrinath and Sankara Nethralaya. Dr S.S.Badrinath, Chairman Emeritus, Sankara Nethralaya extended a warm welcome to the distinguished delegates. He emphasized the importance of collaborative learning with giants like the University of Melbourne and the Indian Institute of Science and hoped that the workshop would be a harbinger of long-term collaborative learning by the three premier institutions. The first day of the event witnessed in-depth lectures on a wide array of topics in vision and visual neuroscience and the second day began with a tour of the clinical science and basic science research departments of Sankara Nethralaya. On Day 3, the workshop provided the students and faculty members of the ESO an opportunity to listen to lectures pertaining to various topics in ophthalmology and neuroscience by the Melbourne colleagues and also for pursuing higher studies at the University of Melbourne. Sankara Nethralaya defines the Art and Science of Ophthalmic Imaging It was day of fulfillment for 8 years of dedicated labour for an institution in the forefront of leveraging technology to detect, diagnose and interpret diagnostic intricacies. The occasion was the book launch of the 'Atlas of Imaging in Ophthalmology' co-authored by Dr S.Ambika,Director, Neuro-Ophthalmology Department, Dr.Veena Noronha, Consultant Radiologist and Dr. Padmaja Minakshisundaram, Neuro-Ophthalmologist at the Sri VD.Swami Auditorium. Extending a warm welcome to the Chief Guest of the day Dr G.Arjundas, Professor Emeritus, Madras Medical College and the other eminent Neuro- surgeons Dr Suresh Bapu, Dr. Balamurugan, Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai, Dr Siddharth Ghosh, Oncologist from Kharaghpur, Dr Smitha Vittal the day's presenter explained that the book is a work on Ophthalmology, Participants at the launch of Atlas of Imaging in Ophthalmology Oncology and Radiology. Describing the book as a rich repertoire of cases compiled from year 2002, she added that the highlight of the book was its foreword by Professor Neil Miller, Chief, Neuro-ophthalmology Division at the Wilmer Eye Institute at the famous 'The John Hopkins School of Medicine', Baltimore, USA. Speaking on the occasion Dr. Veena Noronha thanked the Senior Management team for the support extened towards bringing the book. Dr. Ambika observed that Orbit and Neuro- imaging have brought revolutionary changes in ophthalmic imaging. Releasing the first copy of the book, the Chief Guest of the day, veteran Neuro-Surgeon and physician Dr.S. Arjundas lauded the sincere efforts of the team which had most painstakingly recorded huge data. The interesting launch function ended with a surprise gift to Co-authors Dr S.Ambika and Dr. Veena Noronha by the esteemed Chief Guest. eyelights June 2014 XI Dr.Nagamani Dharmapuri Endowment Lecture In what could be construed as an unmistakable sign of its growing relevance the Dr. Nagamani Dharmapuri Endowment Lecture found a prestigious co-sponsor for its xi edition in the Madras Ophthalmological Association. Delivering the welcome address Ms Jameel Rizwana Hussain,ESO underlined that visual morbidity was seen increasing in children. Dr Sumitha Agarkar, Deputy Director, Pediatric Ophthalmology observed that according to the WHO there were 12 million children partially or fully vision impaired. Speaking on the occasion Dr R.Srikanth, Senior Consultant, Pediatric Ophthalmology recalled the contribution of Dr TS.Surendran, Vice Chairman, who single handedly operated the pediatric ophthalmology department for two decades. Felicitating the Guest of Honour Dr J. Radhakrishnan, State Health Dr. Monte Del Monte, Director of Pediatric ophthalmology, Secretary, Dr T.S.Surendran described the popular Civil Servant as Mott Children's Hospital at XI Dr.Nagamani Dharmapuri a man who rises to great heights of service during calamities and a Endowment Lecture Collector who has been consistently recognized as 'Best Collector' for 4 times. Delivering the guest of honour speech Shri Radhakrishnan, Health Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu made an emphatic appeal to members of the Media assembled at the venue to create awareness on health issues.