Chief Guest : Dr. P. Namperumalsamy
Chairman : Dr. K.S. Santhan Gopal
Co-Chairman : Dr. Ajit Babu Majji,
Convenor : Dr. Lalit Verma
Co-Convenors : Dr. Namrata Sharma / Dr. Rajesh Sinha, Moderator : Dr. Rohit Shetty
| 1 | “Comparison of Efficacy, Safety and Visual Quality of SMILE and LASIK for Myopia and Myopic Astigmatism” ( Best Poster Award At 21st ESCRS Winter Meeting, Maastricht,2017 ) | Dr. Aashish K Bansal ( A04207 ) |
| 2 | Honoured for Contribution to Ophthalmology at ( International Conference of Ophthalmology, Beijing, China ) | Dr. Bhartendu Shukla( S00825 ) |
| 3 | Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology’( APAO ) Yasuo Tano Award and International Travel Grant at APAO 2017 in Singapore | Dr. Diva Kant Misra (M15899 ) |
| 4 | Best Video Trophy During ( APAO Singapore )
Represented Indian Contingent at Hangzhou as President IIRSI Judge of APACRS Film Festival |
Dr. Gaurav Luthra ( L09514 ) |
| 5 | Senior Achievement Award from American Academy of Ophthalmology
Vistha Puruskar from Dr. Ramineni Foundation Award, US 2017 |
Dr. Geeta Vemuganti ( V07591 ) |
| 6 | 14th Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology Oration ( COS Annual Meeting and Exhibition Motreal, Canada June 2017 ) | Dr. Jyotirmay Biswas ( B02635 ) |
| 7 | Winner of the International Ophthalmologist Contest 2017, Eyewiki, (American Academy of Ophthalmology, USA ) | Dr. Koushik Tripathy ( T16931 ) |
| 8 | Women in Ophthalmology Honorary Lecture Award ( First time an Indian got this award, San Diego, USA, 2017 ) | Dr. Mohita Sharma ( S06747 ) |
| 9 | “Making Modified Nishida Transposition Surgery Adjustable” ( Best of Show Award for his Poster at AAPOS 2017 )
AAO Achievement Award by American Academy of Ophthalmology |
Dr. Pradeep Sharma ( S02731 ) |
| 10 | “Extraocular Needle Guided Haptic Insertion Techniques of Scleral Fixation Introcular Lens Surgeries (Best Runner up Film Festival Video Award at (ASCRS), Los Angeles) Director and Co-Director, respectively | Dr. Prashant Gireesh (G20838 ) Dr. Prabu Baskaran ( B13759 ) |
| 11 | Best Poster at AAPOS 2017, Annual Meeting, Nashiville USA
Best Pediatric Cataract Paper from PGCFA Award, Canada Achievement Award form APAO 2017, Singapore Inducted as an ‘Administrative Council Member’ ISA |
Dr. Ramesh Kekunnaya ( K10321 ) |
| 12 | Outstanding Service in Prevention of Blindness Award ( APAO Conference Singapore 2017 ) | Dr. Salil Kumar (S03682 ) |
| 13 | Locked-in-Optic Capture Revisited ( Winner of Film Festival APACRS 2017, Hangzhou,China )
2nd Runners up prize in the “Teaching” category at ESCRS (European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery) 2017 meeting held at Lisbon, Portugal |
Dr. Shail Vasavada |
| 14 | APAO Achievement Award ( 32nd APAO Annual Congress, Singapore 2017 )
“Moleculargenetics and Functional Analysis Indicate Novel Genes Involvement in Retinopathy of Prematurity” was selected amongst top 20 of 1500 posters presented at the 50th European society of Human genetics (ESHG) annual meet. First Prof. Syedur Rehman Memorial lecture at the second biennial |
Dr. Subhadra Jalali ( S04027 ) |
| 15 | AAO Achievement Award 2017 | Dr. Sudarshan Khokhar ( K03825 ) |
| 16 | William Holmes Lecture ( APAO Singapore )
Yasuo Tano Lecture, APVRS Decemeber 2017 |
Dr. Taraprasad Das (D02398 ) |
| 17 | Locked-in – Optic Capture Revisited
( Runners up of Film Festival, Category of Quality Education During the Annual Meeting of the ASCRS in 2017, Los Angeles ) |
Dr. Vaishali Vasavada ( V11113 ) |
| 18 | “Luigi Barca Award” for Best Medical Oral Paper Florence, Italy ( 2017 ) | Dr. Vinod Kumar ( K11452 ) |
| 19 | Honor Award for Outstanding Service to the Society’s Scientific and Educational Programs by ASRS, Boston | Dr. Giridhar Anantharaman ( G03174 ) |
| 20 | APAO Achievement Award 2017, ( APAO Congress in Singapore, 2017 ) | Dr. Fairooz P. Manjandavida ( F13955 ) |
| 21 | “Tell Me Why?? – The Story of Posterior Corneal Astigmatism” ( First Prize in the Film Festival in APACRS 2017, Hanzou, China )
Awarded the prestigious Young Physician Exchange Grant from (APACRS ) “Comparison of Clinical Outcomes Between a No Dissection Versus the Conventional Dissection Technique of Lenticule Removal in SMILE” selected as best Paper of session and discussed in the |
Dr. Sheetal Brar ( B15612 ) |
| 22 | Hydro – Insertion – A Visco Free Technique for IOL Implantation” Runner up in 2017 APACRS Film Festival | Dr. Shirish Thorat ( T07215 ) |
| 23 | “Dark Side of the Moon : Corneal Cross Linking Outcomes” Runner up in 2017 APACRS Film Festival
“Novel Intracellular Pathways in Keratoconus and its Translational potential” Best paper of the Cornea Session |
Dr. Pooja Khamar ( K17849 ) |
| 24 | “Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplantation ( SLET ): A Transforming Approach to Unilateral Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency” has won “Best Video Award – New Techniques” at:
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Film Festival – 2017(Los Angeles, USA) APACRS Film Festival – 2017(Hangzhou, China) RANZCO Film Festival – 2017(Perth, Australia) |
Dr. Anand Pasari ( P19082 ) |
| 25 | ACE Teacher Award APACRS 2017 | Dr. Suhas Haldipurkar ( H03670 |
| 26 | First Indian to be Honored with the most Prestigious Jan G.F Worst Award, 2017 by the International Intra-Ocular Implant Club, Los Angeles, USA | Dr. Abhay R. Vasavada |
| 27 | Received “ Mother Teresa Social Leadership Scholarship” at Harvard Business School, Boston | Dr. Kaushik Murali ( M10521 ) |
| 28 | Selected as “ Global Sight Hero- 2017 “ at the IAPB Council Meeting, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2017
Honoured by Dr. Boris Malyugin with an honorary Fellow |
Dr. Reena Sethi ( S05695 ) |
| 29 | Comparison of Outcomes of Wavefront Guided LASIK and Small Incision Lenticule Extraction in Myopia” ( Bursary Grant by ESCRS 2017, Lisbon, Portugal ) | Dr. Ashwattha Shetty ( S15395 ) |
| 30 | Honor Award Recipient by American Society of Retinal Specialists, 2017 | Dr. Dharmesh Kar (K10202 ) |
| 31 | Honor Award Recipient by American Society of Retinal Specialists, 2017 | Dr. Aniruddha Mahindrakar ( M11296 ) |
| 32 | Hony. “Diploma” Jointly by :
The Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation The S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution The Russian Society of Ophthalmologists Honoured by Dr. Boris Malyugin with an honorary Fellow |
Dr. Arun Sethi ( S03199 ) |
| 33 |
Inducted in the Hall of Fame ASCRS, US Admitted into the Order of the Star of Africa, with the Grade of Commander, for his exceptional performance and contributions to Liberia |
Dr. G.N Rao (R02276) |
| 34 |
“Corneal Allogenic Intrastromal Ring Segments” Best paper of Session Award and selected for being featured in the Best of ASCRS. Waring Medal for Editorial Excellence from Journal of Refractive Surgery for outstanding paper First Prize in Difficult and Special cases for SMILE lenticuleassisted sutureless corneal resurfacing with interface tattooing for ISRS Recognition Award 2017 from International Society of Refractive Surgery Top Gun Danger Zone Award for Capsular Tension Ring – Pearls for manual implantation at ASCRS Top Gun competition at ASCRS 2017 |
Dr. Soosan Jacob ( J07605 ) |
| 35 | High-resolution OCT imaging of Bowman’s layer in asymmetric keratoconus” won Best paper of the session (DALK Session) in ASCRS in may 2017 held at Los Angeles | Dr. Roshan T (T19271 ) |
| 36 | OCT Topography: A Novel, Non-Invasive Method to Analyze the Epithelium- Bowman’s Interface in Normal and Keratoconic Eyes” awarded travel grant award ARVO, Baltimore | Dr. Rushad Shroff (S14772 ) |
| 37 | Conducted Wet lab course on MSICS at :the New York eye and ear infirmary at Mount Sinai, New York as Instructor
the Royal college of Ophthalmology, London as Instructor the University college of Santa Barbara,California as Instructor |
Dr. Preeti Shah ( S16945 ) |
| 38 | First ever Indian Ophthalmologist to be awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Translational Medicine (FAcadTM ) by the European Society of Medicine (Austria) | Dr. Sandeep Saxena ( S05323 ) |
| 39 | Differential Molecular Signature in Cone vs Periphery and its Impact: on Customised Crosslinking” Selected Best Paper in ASCRS 2017, Los Angeles
A Novel Inverse Finite Element Modelling for LASIK and SMILE Eyes” selected Best Paper in APACRS 2017, Hangzhou |
Dr. Pallak Kusumgar (P16857 ) |
| 40 | Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Achievement Award in March 2017
Developing Country Eye Researcher Fellowship Award and Travel grant by the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research for the year 2017 at Baltimore, USA |
Dr. Kasturi Bhattacharjee (B07299 ) |
| 41 | “The Wondrous Word of Refractive Surgery: A Beginner’s Journey” video won first prize in the “Residents in Training” in ESCRS, Lisbon 2017 | Dr. Arushi Garg (G15746 ) |
| 42 | Senior Honor Award from ASRS
Received First Prize in EURETINA 2017 Video Competition in Barcelona “New Innovative Techniques to Remove Difficult RIOFBs” Received Rhett Buckler award among top 10 Best Film Festival 2017, Boston ( “Extreme Retina”- I Still Believe in 99% Perspiration and 1% Inspiration ) |
Dr. Subhendu Boral ( B09751 ) |
| 43 | Altered Corneal Nerves and Distinct Cytokine Profile in Migraine Patients with Photophobia” won the best Paper award in general session at APACRS 2017, Hangzhou, China | Dr. Charmy Dedhiya ( D18454 ) |
| 44 | Winner of Practice Management and Development Marketing Competition at ESCRS | Dr. Rahil Chaudhary |
| 45 | Received Patent name “Dr. Gandhis Irrigating PC Polisher” from Epsilon Company ( Code EB21 ) | Dr. Nikhil M Gandhi ( G16367 ) |
| 46 | Received Appreciation Certificate for conducting Wet Lab Course on MSICS at :The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary at Mount Sinai
The Royal College of Ophthalmology, at London The University College of Santa Barbara, at California |
Dr. Janak M. Shah ( S16946 ) |
| 47 | Received Best paper Award in Refractive Session at APACRS 2017
Received Travel Grant for ARVO 2017 |
Dr. Rashmi Deshmukh ( D17345 ) |
| 48 | “Flap or Flapless : Devil’s Advocate” Best video in Refractive and Cornea Surgery at annual conference of American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), Los Angeles
Bursary Grant awarded by European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) for high scoring accepted free |
Dr. Tushar Grover (G15580) |
| 49 | Winner of Award at ASCRS Film Festival
Developing Country Eye Researcher Fellowship Award and Travel grant by the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research for the year 2017 at Baltimore, USA |
Dr. Amar Agarwal ( A02437 ) |
| 50 | One of the top 5 innovative videos selected for presentation at the Retina Sub speciality Day of the conference
The talk was titled ‘Management of Subretinal Cysticercosis’ and was presented at the Great Hall of the Ernest N Morial Convention Centre, New Orleans on 10th November 2017 |
Dr. Simar Rajan Singh ( S16917 ) |
| 51 | Won first prize at the World Glaucoma Congress Held at Helsinki,2017 | Dr Vanita Pathak Ray ( V15422 ) |
| 52 | Device Providing Enlargement & Preventing Collapse of the Pupil of the Eye”Patent granted in Europe, Canada Japan, China, Australia & Singapore | Dr Suven Bhattacharjee (B05679 ) |
| 53 | “Eye Health Hero Award 2017” by IAPB in Kathmandu, Nepal | Dr Harsha Bhattacharjee ( B02950 ) |
| 54 | Awarded International Scholar Award at AAO 2017 | Dr Namrata Sharma ( S05577 ) |
| 55 | Achievement Award at AAO, 2017 APAO Achievement Award, 2018 | Dr Rajesh Sinha Dr Rajesh Sinha |
| 56 | Winner of video award on “Challenging Cases” at ESCRS 2017, Lisbon | Dr Sanjay Chaudhary ( C03469 ) |
| 57 | “War on posterior corneal infections” won best video Award at ESCRS 2017, Lisbon
“Femto modifies keratoconic eyes and the intracorneal lenticulartransplantation (Stromal Augmentation Technique): an effectivealternative to DALK” won best Poster Award ( Refractive Category )at ESCRS 2017, Lisbon “Cross linked donor corneas in Boston Type 1 Keratoprosthesis resist infections and melts – A case series” won best poster Award at SOE 2017, Spain |
Dr Lional Raj ( L16453 ) |
| 58 | Awarded ‘Gold Medal Oration’ at the AUSCRS, 2017 Hamilton Island | Dr Sri Ganesh ( S05250 ) |
| 59 | Best Paper Award at a prestigious international meeting at APVRS (Asia Pacific Vitreo Retina Society Conference 2017) held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Dr Rakesh Juneja ( J15026 ) |
| 60 | Best of the Show Award – Retina Photo Category, “The Morning Glory Blooms – Morning Glory Syndrome with Contactile Disk” at EVRS, Florence, Sept. 2017 | Dr Sangeet Mittal ( M09477 ) |
| 61 | Best Paper at APAO | Dr Ritika Dalal ( D14793 ) |
| 62 | Achievement Award by the AAO
Best Poster Award at SAARC, Karachi |
Dr Pandey Suresh Kumar ( P06502 ) |
| 63 | USA Patent for QR 678 Hair growth factors Invention | Dr Debraj Shome (S09498) |
| 64 | Rhett Buckler Award at ASRS, 2017 ASRS Senior Honor Award, 2017 | Dr Shrinivas M Joshi ( J12259 ) |
| 65 | APAO Outstanding Service in Prevention of Blindness Awards 2018 | Dr Gudimetla Ramachandra Reddy ( R06503 ) |
| 66 | Received Keshmahinder Singh Travel Grant award in APVRS December, 2017 | Dr Pritam Bawankar ( B20198 ) |
| 67 | Best Paper Refractive surgery at ASCRS 2017 | Dr Natasha Pahuja ( P16722 ) |
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