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L V Prasad Eye InstituteExcellence • Equity • EfficiencyACTIVITY REPORT2010 – 2011

VisionTo create excellent and equitable eye caresystems that reach all those in need.MissionThe mission of L V Prasad Eye Institute is tobe a centre of excellence in eye care services,basic and clinical research into eye diseasesand vision-threatening conditions, training,product development, and rehabilitation forthose with incurable visual disability, with afocus on extending equitable and efficienteye care to underserved populations in thedeveloping world.Cover: In BrailleL V Prasad Eye InstituteSo that all may seeActivity Report 2010-2011

The LVPEIEye Health Pyramid3Activity Report 2010–2011

The year at a glanceThe LVPEI pyramid of service delivery touches all levels of society, from remote rural villages to busyurban centres. From primary eye care to advanced tertiary (quaternary), we have provided eye careservices to hundreds of thousands of people, without compromising on quality.This year, we reached a total of 1,396,741 people including 181,534 children through these variouslevels of care. Of this almost a million (989,316) received eye care services entirely free of costas part of our community programs and through our higher-level facilities.Ripples from our circle of impact on people’s life and sight continue to spread beyond our campuses’and nation’s boundaries.PATIENT CARE service deliveryCOMMUNITY EYE HEALTH PROGRAMSEntirely free of costPopulation covered by door to door surveys 533,936 (1098 villages surveyed)Population screened31,852 (468 community programs)Schools & Anganwadis (creches) covered 1236Total population reached 533,936Total children screened 129,839These numbers do not include data from our partner centres.OUTPATIENT FREE OF SURGERIES FREE OFVISITS COST COSTPRIMARY EYE CARE72 Vision Centres 124,123 100% - -SECONDARY EYE CARE9 Service Centres 243,650 41% 28,374 66%TERTIARY EYE CAREBhubaneswar 75,272 23% 7454 37%Visakhapatnam 71,747 25% 6908 42%Vijayawada 1519 41% - -Launched February16, 2011, surgeries from June 2011ADVANCED TERTIARY(QUATERNARY) CAREHyderabad 216,655 30% 38,066 45%Total 732,966 44% 80,802 51%Includes 51,695 childrenFree of cost services are provided irrespective of the complexity of care.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency4

... and the network growsIn operation Partnerships In processCentre of Excellence 1 2Tertiary Centres 3 16 (11 National & 5 International)Service Centres 9 12 3Vision Centres 72 61Capacity buildingcollaborationsTechnical consultancy 12 5in specific areasPartner hospitals 54-year partnershipsREHABILITATION providing a better quality of lifeSight enhancement client visits (low vision) 4911Vision rehabilitation client visits 7068Community based rehabilitation 77EYE BANKING facilitating the gift of sightIncludes community eye banks on our campusesHyderabad Bhubaneswar Visakhapatnam TotalCorneas harvested 3271 340 497 4108EDUCATION enhancing skills and building human resourcesOphthalmologists 210Other eye care professionals 681Participants in CME and other programs 1460In addition, many more attended our CME programs through live webcasts.RESEARCH pushing the frontiersPresentationsInternational 267National 405Publications 134Honors and awards 875Activity Report 2010–2011

L V Prasad Eye Institute NetworkManagementGullapalli N Rao Usha Gopinathan Hemanth Paul Sreedevi PenmetchaChair Executive Director Business Development International Liaison, Documentation & VisionK Haragopala Krishna Sreedevi Yadavalli V Rajashekar Ghanshyam SinghFinance & Accounts Communications New Projects & Development Opticals & OpticianryKV Subba Rao Sam Balasundaram G Sridhar K Annapurna DeviFinance & Accounts Fund Raising & Donor Relations Properties & Maintenance TechnologyVenkatesh M Reddy Rajiv Kumar HSD SrinivasTrust Affairs & Chairman’s Office City CentresHuman ResourcesKallam Anji Reddy Campus, HyderabadDirector & Dr Kallam Anji ReddyDistinguished Chair of OphthalmologyG Chandra SekharAssistant DirectorRupesh KumarClinical ServicesCornea & Anterior SegmentVirender S SangwanBhupesh BaggaSayan BasuSunita ChaurasiaPrashant GargPravin V KrishnaR MuralidharSomasheila MurthyVarsha RathiMukesh TanejaTamal ChakrabortyPotluri HareshS Kartheek KumarPreetam KumarR Suresh KumarSana QuadriBausch & Lomb Contact Lens CentreVarsha RathiPravin V KrishnaD SrikanthPreeji M SudharmanT Shyam SunderLaser Refractive Surgery (LASIK)Pravin V KrishnaPrashant GargR MuralidharSomasheila MurthyVarsha RathiVST Centre for Glaucoma CareG Chandra SekharNikhil S ChoudhariAnil K MandalVanita Pathak-RayHarsha BL RaoSirisha SenthilJ Ganesh BabuG BhuvaneswariA Uday KumarConsultant OphthalmologistsConsultant OptometristsTukaram KumbarK SrinivasMadhulatha UmeshSmt. Kanuri Santhamma Centre forVitreo Retinal DiseasesSubhadra JalaliAjit B MajjiAnnie MathaiRaja NarayananRajeev Reddy PappuruPadmaja K RaniChinmaya A SahuT Venkata AmarnathShaik BajibhiPriyangshu ChandraK DeepikaSarvepally Vijay KiranSPVR NareshM UmaOphthalmic Plastic Surgery,Orbit & Ocular OncologySantosh G HonavarMohammad Javed AliMilind N NaikVijay Anand P ReddyM Yashwanth GoudYogita KadamWinston D PrakashOcular ProsthesisNusrat ChangalRaju KumarJasti V Ramanamma Children’s EyeCare CentreAnil K MandalAmit GuptaSantosh G HonavarSubhadra JalaliRamesh KekunnayaPravin V KrishnaR MuralidharPadmaja K RaniPallavi Abhay AgarkarJoseph MollahStrabismus/Neuro-ophthalmologyRamesh KekunnayaNikhil S ChoudhariAmit GuptaUveitis & Ocular ImmunologyVirender S SangwanAnnie MathaiSomasheila MurthyRaja NarayananRajeev K ReddyComprehensive OphthalmologyRohit KhannaBhupesh BaggaAesthetic Facial Plastic SurgeryMilind N NaikGautam DendukuriAnesthesia ServicesPG KoshyMS PrasadNageshwar RaoS RavinderCVM ReddyNageshwar ReddyP SreedharP SriramuluD SukeshInternal MedicineArchana BhargavaY Srinivasa RaoMeera & L B Deshpande Centrefor Sight Enhancement & Dr PRKPrasad Centre for Rehabilitationof Blind & Visually ImpairedVijaya K GothwalBeula ChristyHemalatha ArunachalamDeepak K BaggaBabalu Sara KoshyMahalakshmiP Shailaja ReddyC Rebecca SumaliniRamayamma InternationalEye BankUsha GopinathanPrashant GargBrinda P RamachandranExcellence | Equity | Efficiency6

Bhubaneswar Campus, BhubaneswarDirectorTaraprasad DasCornea & Anterior SegmentSujata DasSrikant K SahuContact Lens & Refractive SurgerySujata DasSantanu JanaSouvik MandalSrikant K SahuMukesh K SinghGlaucomaSanghamitra DashRetina & VitreousSoumyava BasuTaraprasad DasTapas Ranjan PadhiOphthalmic Plastic Surgery,Orbit & Ocular OncologySuryasnata RathOcular ProsthesisMahasweta ChowdhuryBhaktiprada SahooMiriam Hyman Children’s Eye Care CentreSiddharth KesarwaniSanghamitra DashTapas Ranjan PadhiSuryasnata RathNTPC Centre for Diabetic Eye DiseaseTaraprasad DasSoumyava BasuTapas Ranjan PadhiNTPC Eye Trauma CentreSuryasnata RathSoumyava BasuSujata DasTapas Ranjan PadhiNTPC Centre for Sight EnhancementSindhu KannanOcular Microbiology ServiceSavitri Sharma DasSarita KarDalmia Ophthalmic PathologyServiceRuchi MittalAnesthesia ServicesDebendranath DasAdministrationBikash Chandra MohantaPrakash DasChhoton DeRamanandan MishroPrakash NayakSudipta Paridadrushti daan Eye Bank*Sujata DasSrikant K SahuGMR Varalakshmi Campus, VisakhapatnamDirectorMerle FernandesCornea & Anterior SegmentMerle FernandesIS MurthySushmita G ShahPurbasa RoyContact Lens & Refractive SurgeryMerle FernandesIS MurthySushmita G ShahAppanna GorivillaRekha GunturuKanika SahaGlaucomaPVKS VarmaRetina & VitreousAvinash PathengayKapil BhatiaManmath Kumar DasGaurav Yogesh ShahAnand Kumar POphthalmic Plastic Surgery, Orbit &Ocular OncologyManju MeenaNimmagadda Prasad Children’s Eye CareCentreVirender SachdevaMerle FernandesManju MeenaGaurav Yogesh ShahPVKS VarmaStrabismus/Neuro-ophthalmologyVirender SachdevaAvinash PathengaySatya Varaprasad ChAnick MallickUveitisAvinash PathengayBob Ohlson Centre forSight EnhancementRekha GunturuDharani NandaLakshmi DwaraOcular Microbiology ServiceNagendra KumarAnesthesia ServicesMorton Anesthesia AlliedServices Pvt LtdAdministrationB AnjaneyuluK LokeshBVS Mallikarjun RaoK VeeraswamyMohsin Eye Bank*Merle FernandesIS MurthySushmita G ShahKode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus, Tadigadapa, VijayawadaServices launched on February 16, 2011Cornea & Anterior SegmentVinay S PillaiRetina & VitreousAtul Kumar SahuThe David Brown Children’sEye Care CentreNiranjan K PehereNeuro-ophthalmologyNiranjan K PehereComprehensive OphthalmologyTathagato Das7Consultant OptometristVL NarayanaAdministrationKiran PVSivaram Prasad* Community eye banks on our campusActivity Report 2010–2011

Across the NetworkProf Brien Holden EyeResearch CentreDirector and Distinguished Chair ofEye ResearchD BalasubramanianJhaveri Microbiology CentreSavitri Sharma DasB Madhavi LathaSuma NalamadaSaroja A Rao Immunology LaboratorySavitri Sharma DasSuma NalamadaKallam Anji Reddy Molecular GeneticsLaboratoryChitra KannabiranSubhabrata ChakrabartiInderjeet KaurOphthalmic Pathology LaboratoryGeeta K VemugantiSudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Stem CellBiology LaboratoryIndumathi MariappanVirender S SangwanVisual Optics and Psychophysics LaboratoryShrikant R BharadwajClinical ScientistsVirender S SangwanSomasheila MurthySayan BasuAdministrationJai GaneshClinical ResearchBidula DasSamrat SarkarP VeerendranathEducation CentreDirector and Distinguished Chairof EducationPrashant GargLVP-Zeiss International Academyof Advanced Ophthalmic EducationVanita Pathak-RayVarsha RathiBausch & Lomb School ofOptometryPrincipalP K Sai PrakashY Vijay KumarM SrikanthSangeeta SrinivasanAdministrationShaik Yousuf ArfathInternational Centre forAdvancement of Rural Eyecare, Kismatpur CampusAssociate DirectorRohit KhannaActing HeadPadmaja K RaniPrograms & ProjectsSayed Imtiaz AhmedS KrishnaiahSrinivas MarmamulaA Sashi MohanGiridhar PydaV RajashekarGullapalli N RaoS SheeladeviKovai VilasJachin David WilliamsAdministrationBabu RaoExcellence | Equity | Efficiency8

Boards of ManagementHyderabad Eye InstituteChairDr Gullapalli N RaoDistinguished Chair of Eye HealthL V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadMembersDr K Anji ReddyChairman, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories LtdHyderabadProf Palle Rama RaoDistinguished ProfessorInternational Advanced Research Centre for PowderMetallurgy & New MaterialsHyderabadMr A Ramesh PrasadManaging Director, Prasad Film Laboratories LtdHyderabadProf M Rammohan RaoDean Emeritus, Indian School of BusinessHyderabadMr N PrasadChairman, VANPIC Ports Pvt LtdHyderabadDr K RavindranathChairman, Global HospitalsHyderabadMr Ravi ReddyChairman, THINK CapitalNew Jersey, USAProf K Srinath ReddyPresident, Public Health Foundation of IndiaNew DelhiProf Seyed E HasnainProfessor, Biological SciencesIndian Institute of TechnologyNew DelhiDr F C KohliChairman Emeritus, Tata Consultancy Services LtdMumbaiDr V RaghunathanChief Executive Officer, GMR Varalakshmi FoundationHyderabadDr G Chandra Sekhar (Ex-officio)DirectorL V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadDr Taraprasad Das (Ex-officio)DirectorL V Prasad Eye InstituteBhubaneswarDr Usha Gopinathan (Ex-officio)Executive DirectorL V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadHyderabad Eye Research FoundationChairProf Nirmal K GangulyDistinguished Biotechnology ProfessorTranslational Health Science & Technology InstituteC/o National Institute of ImmunologyNew DelhiSecretary & TreasurerDr Gullapalli N RaoDistinguished Chair of Eye HealthL V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadMembersDr S P VasireddiChairman & Managing DirectorVimta LabsHyderabadProf Anuradha LohiaThe Wellcome Trust-DBT India AllianceHyderabadMr Peter T HassanAdvisor (Industries)Government of Andhra PradeshNew DelhiMr Syamal GuptaDirectorTATA Sons LimitedMumbaiDr A V Rama RaoChairman & Managing DirectorAVRA Laboratories Pvt LtdHyderabadProf S K SarinDirectorInstitute of Liver & Biliary SciencesNew DelhiProf D Balasubramanian (Ex-officio)Director – ResearchHyderabad Eye Research FoundationL V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadDr G Chandra Sekhar (Ex-officio)DirectorL V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadDr Taraprasad Das (Ex-officio)DirectorL V Prasad Eye InstituteBhubaneswarDr Usha Gopinathan (Ex-officio)Executive DirectorL V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabad9Activity Report 2010–2011

ContentsForeword 12The year in review 14The LVPEI network growsEndowment lecturesNews from Bhubaneswar campusNews from GMR Varalakshmi campus, VisakhapatnamNews from Kode Venkatadri Chowdary campus, VijayawadaAlumni newsHonors & AwardsPatient care services 37Patient carePatientspeakVision rehabilitationEye banking 46Product development 49Community eye health and outreach 50NewsVillage Vision ComplexOperations Research at ICAREAccompaniment programEducation 63Eye research 89Research projectsPublicationsPresentationsOur support 125Health and Education for AllA Commitment to the CommunityThe David Brown Children’s Eye Care CentreCreating Virtual Global ClassroomsAll outdoor pictures are from our campuses.

ForewordAt the time of writing this foreword we have just inaugurated our 82 nd VisionCentre, based on an aspiration to bring high quality primary eye care within thereach of people living in the remotest locations with no access to health care,with the first centre opening nearly 15 years ago. The idea was to have a permanentcommitment to a finite population using the services of local people who are trainedappropriately. Through this experience we have discovered that our Vision Centres arethe only health outposts in some of these places, particularly in tribal areas. We havehad many heartwarming experiences through the Vision Centre programme, which havemade every group of the LVPEI family, from a clinician practising cutting edge subspecialitycare to a scientist working in a frontier area of research proud, with all of them solidlybehind this aspect of our work. During this year we have continued our move deeperinto the communities with projects on comprehensive community development aroundour Vision Centres, focusing on “Causes of Causes”, namely, factors that influence eyehealth.We have also been successful in forging strong partnerships with local communities andmobilising more and more community participation with some centres in the pipelinefunded 100 per cent by local philanthropy. Local philanthropy has already fuelled ourexpansion with one tertiary centre and one secondary centre receiving completefunding from local donors in the recent past. These are stellar examples of communityparticipation in health care, which go a long way towards enhancing both access andquality. This augurs well for the development of systems that are available, affordableand self-sustainable.Strong foundations for education and research, coupled with an unwavering adherenceto core values and standards has helped in building a strong brand image with itsconcomitant benefits. Most of our education programmes have expanded, a fewnew ones were added after a needs assessment. Education programmes have beenthriving from the rich pool of Visiting Professors who spend varying periods of timewith us and global leaders who teach us from long distance (via videoconferencing).Tele-education has expanded through webcasting of our programs globally. We havealso initiated joint education programmes with centres in the West as well as in India.Towards the end of this past year (March 31, 2011), we are well on the road to enhancingour patient care capacity in Hyderabad by above 50%. The growth in our two newertertiary centres in Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam, both in their fifth year of operationcontinues to be impressive. The evolution of these two tertiary centres is following ourtraditional path with education, clinical research and community eye health componentsalready becoming integral parts. Our Bhubaneswar campus is involved in vibrant basicresearch in microbiology. The beginning of the year also saw the addition of anothertertiary care centre. Overall, the tertiary care capacity has more than doubled.Rehabilitation work had a very eventful year with the addition of several new facets toprovide enhanced care for people with multiple disabilities in addition to vision loss. WithExcellence | Equity | Efficiency12

increased leveraging of technology, we are able to provide education in IT related areas,which would enhance the possibilities for the vocational rehabilitation of the irreversiblyvisually impaired. Also encouraging was the response to training programmes as HRDin this area is a critical need globally. The number of our clients from the rehabilitationcentre excelling in sports, education, music and various other professions is very highand bears testimony to the dedication of our team and the quality of the programmes.On the research front, our publications and grant records have been excellent. Thephenomenon of “Clinical Scientist” is beginning to take root and, hopefully, will flourish.The institutional commitment to nurture this is solid. The team as a whole continued toget its due share of recognition, both nationally and internationally with more and moremembers of our faculty moving into leadership positions.The infrastructure continues to improve. As we are scaling up quite rapidly, we haverecognized the need to make our management systems more robust. Several highlyqualified managers have joined our team to contribute to this process. The combinationof the “old” and the “new” is working towards achieving growth without compromisingon our values and standards.Our Boards comprise of very distinguished personalities from diverse sectors who addto the vibrancy of our organisation considerably. Quite a few of them were honouredduring this year with awards of great distinction and we bask in their reflected glory.The generosity of many friends, both individual and institutional, was at the very core ofour creation and growth. This past year again, we have benefitted immensely from thiscontinuing munificence, of which you see some inspiring stories in the following pagesof this report. We place on record our gratitude to all of them, for allowing us to movealong our path of “Excellence with Equity” without compromise. All this has preparedus very well for the upcoming Silver Jubilee Year and the intensive year-long activitiesawaiting us.Gullapalli N RaoChair, Board of TrusteesL V Prasad Eye Institute enters its 25 th (Silver Jubilee) Year on June 1, 2011.13

The year in reviewThe LVPEI Network GrowsThe 24 th year of L V Prasad Eye Institute saw exciting growth across the network with expansionsat the three middle levels of our Eye Health Pyramid. The Group’s third tertiary centre wasinaugurated in Vijayawada along with a comprehensive children’s eye care centre, and the ecofriendlyninth secondary care Nava Bharat Eye Centre was launched in Paloncha. The tenth secondarycare centre is under development in Gudavalli village in Cherukupalli mandal of Guntur district and willbe operational by mid 2011.At the primary level, 8 Vision Centres were set up, with the expansion to Visakhapatnam area, thesebeing the most modern ones till date. In Hyderabad, we set up the first City Centre, which is seeing asteady stream of patients, while an extension centre is being launched shortly. City Centres will soontake off in Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam too.Now LVPEI has a presence in 87 different locations, 86 in the state of Andhra Pradesh and 1 in Odisha(Orissa) – one Centre of Excellence, three tertiary and nine secondary centres, and 72 primary and 2city centres. With the expansion during this year, LVPEI’s footprint has extended to 4 new districts ofAndhra Pradesh, now covering 18 of the 23 districts (along with our partners).NEW TERTIARY CENTREKode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus in VijayawadaThe Institute’s third tertiary centre, the Kode Venkatadri Chowdary (KVC) campus at Tadigadapa, on theoutskirts of Vijayawada (third largest city of Andhra Pradesh) started outpatient services on February 16,2011. The KVC campus has been set up with support from the family of Mr Kode Satyanarayana, son of lateMr K Venkatadri Chowdary, the first Municipal Commissioner of Vijayawada after Independence. A notedphilanthropist, Mr Kode Satyanarayana, Vice-President of Kode Venkatadri Charitable Society, is Chair of theSpectra group of industries. A team from Spectra Foods Pvt Ltd, led by Mr Suresh helped build the facility.The campus will offer the following subspecialty services: children’s eye care, diabetic eye care, retinal surgery,corneal transplants, cataract surgeries using the latest techniques, laser refractive surgery (LASIK) as well asopticals and contact lenses, in addition to routine comprehensive eye examinations. The centre will be a referraland eye health resource center for a population of 10 to 15 million in central coastal Andhra Pradesh, serving thedistricts of Krishna, West Godavari, Prakasam, Guntur and Khammam, delivering high quality services with careand compassion. As per our charter, 50% of the services will be provided at no cost to those who cannot affordto pay. The institute will also develop into a training centre for all levels of eye care professionals.(See also ‘Health and Education for All’, page 126)From left: Mr Kode Satyanaraya’s son Mr Kode Venkata Ramana, daughter-in-law Mrs KV Sandhya, son-in-law Mr A Sudhakar, MD, SpectraFoods, with Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Chair, LVPEI Group and Mr & Mrs Edward Brown at the inaugural of the Vijayawada campus (right)Excellence | Equity | Efficiency14

The David Brown Children’s Eye Care CentreA few days before the main campus opened its doors to patients, Mrs Soona and Mr Edward H Brown inaugurated TheDavid Brown Children’s Eye Care Centre at the Kode Venkatadri Chowdary campus in Vijayawada on January 29, 2011.The Children’s Eye Care Centre was set up with support from the Browns from France, in memory of their late sonDavid John Brown. Delighted to be present on the occasion, Mr Edward Brown said, “We wish to remember him in thismanner because of our great admiration for the expert eye care provided by the L V Prasad Eye Institute in India, underthe leadership of Dr G N Rao. We are particularly impressed by the fact that this world-class treatment is available freeof charge to those who cannot afford to pay. We are confident that David’s name will be remembered here for a verylong time.”The centre will provide high-quality comprehensive eye care to children fromthe neighbouring districts, with special focus on underprivileged and underservedchildren. (First Person: ‘A Personal Reflection’ by Mr Edward H Brown, page 128)Mr Edward and Mrs Soona Brown at The David BrownChildren’s Eye Care CentreLittle Deeksha, the first patient atVijayawada campusVILLAGE VISION COMPLEX9 th Satellite Centre at PalonchaWith the inauguration of its 9 th secondary care ServiceCentre (a satellite centre, wholly owned and operated byLVPEI) on February 18, 2011 in Paloncha of Khammamdistrict, the Institute’s footprint entered a new district ofAndhra Pradesh, with a high density of tribal population.Several features make the Nava Bharat Eye Centre unique– 100 percent financial support from a local industry NavaBharat Ventures Limited, a spectacularly designed greenbuilding and the launch of the first cluster of 5 primary careVision Centres linked to it within two weeks. The centreis a magnificent gift from the Nava Bharat group, who tookcomplete charge of the creation of the beautiful building.Mr Purnachandra Rao, vice-president, Nava Bharat Ventureslaunched the Outpatient Department by lighting a lamp. He was the first patient followedby Mr Ali, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Nava Bharat group and Mrs Ali.A path-breaking feature is that the center is paperless and totally based on ElectronicMedical Records, thus offering high quality IT services at the grassroot level of eye care.(See also ‘A Commitment to the Community’, page 127)Nava Bharat Ventures Vice-President Mr Purnachandra Raolights the lamp at the inauguration. From left: Dr Padmaja K Rani,Acting Head, ICARE, Mr Ali and Dr Vivek Warkard, LVPEI fellow15Activity Report 2010–2011

8 Vision Centres Added to Our NetworkBarely into its second week of operations, the Nava BharatEye Centre at Paloncha acquired a clutch of 5 Vision Centres,inaugurated between February 28 and March 3, 2011. The primarycare Vision Centres (VCs) are located at Illandu, Kalluru (bothlaunched on February 28), Aswapuram, Manuguru (March 2), andDammapeta (March 3). Located within 60 kms of Paloncha, theseare the first 5 of the 30 VCs proposed to be launched during2010-2013, supported by the Latter-day Saint Charities (LDSC)of Salt Lake City, USA.Present at the inaugural celebrations were Dr Isaac Fergusonand his wife Mrs Gloria Ferguson, representing the LDS Church,Mr Ali from Nava Bharat Ventures Ltd and LVPEI’s field supportteam.One of the key components of the pyramid model is localstake-holding and local ownership. The site for the Illandu VC was donated by SriRamanjaneya Hindu Varthaka Grandhalayam, represented by Dr Sudhakar at theinaugural. Dr Ferguson and representatives of the local community addressed thepublic meetings at the centres, elaborating upon the services available at the primaryand secondary centres; the partnership between LDSC, Nava Bharat Ventures, localcommunities and LVPEI and the need for optimal utilization of the services.Dr and Mrs Ferguson also visited Nava Bharat Eye Centre and the new KodeVenkatadri Chowdary campus at Tadigadapa, Vijayawada, thus seeing first-hand thethree links in LVPEI’s chain of primary, secondary and tertiary centres. The generousgrant from LDS Charities led to the completion of the “Village Vision Complex” –offering a comprehensive and complete range of eye care services through primary,secondary and tertiary care permanent facilities.From top: Dr Issac and Mrs Gloria Fergusonat Manuguru Vision Centre, the DammapetaVision Centre and its inaugurationThe GMR Varalakshmi campus at Visakhapatnam inaugurated its firsttwo Vision Centres on December 13, 2010 at Shrungavarapukota andChodavaram, both approx 60 kms away. These are the first of 30 VCs linkedto LVPEI Visakhapatnam, to be set up during 2010 - 2013 with support fromthe Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc., USA. These spacious, high tech primaryeye care centres will provide quality eye care to communities in some ofthe most underserved parts of the state. The Vision Centres’ premiseswere provided free of cost by local organizations.Dr Gullapalli N Rao (Chair, LVPEI), Dr Merle Fernandes (Director, LVPEI,Visakhapatnam), Dr PVKS Varma and the entire Vizag team participatedin the inaugural program, as did representatives of the supportingorganizations. (More in News from Visakhapatnam, page 29)The eighth Vision Centre this year was inaugurated in Ravulapalem villageon August 7, 2010 attached to the Paramahansa Yogananda Netralaya inRajahmundry, East Godavari district. It is supported by Fullerton IndiaCredit Company Limited, Mumbai.Now L V Prasad Eye Institute has 72 primary care centres across AndhraPradesh.Dr Gullapalli N Rao and Dr Merle Fernandes with guestsat the public meeting at Chodavaram; below, the spacious,well-appointed Shrungavarapukota Vision CentreExcellence | Equity | Efficiency16

From right: Dr G Hariprasada Rao, Dr Kodali Varaprasad, Dr G ChandraSekhar, Director, LVPEI, Hyderabad, and Dr P Srinivasulu, managementconsultant, LVPEI, with local dignitaries10 th Rural Satellite EyeCare CentreThe foundation stone for LVPEI’s 10 th secondarylevelService Centre ‘Dr Kommareddy Raja RamMohan Rao Eye Centre’ was laid on June 7, 2010 bysenior ophthalmologist Dr Gogineni Hariprasada Raoat Gudavalli village in Cherukupalli mandal of Gunturdistrict. The centre will provide high-quality eyecare services to the community of this underservedcoastal region of Andhra Pradesh. It is supported bya local family foundation, Nayudamma Foundationfor Education and Rural Development, managed byDr Kodali Varaprasad and his brothers. The centrewill become operational by mid 2011.The First City CentreThe first City Centre of the LVPEI Group was launched on August 16, 2010, aimed at bringing quality eye care services tothe residents of Hyderabad closer to their home. The new venture in the city’s IT hub at Madhapur is the first of severalCity Centres that will enable the urban population to access L V Prasad Eye Institute’s expertise and 24 years’ experience,at their doorstep. City Centres are also coming up very soon at Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam.Open 7 days a week, the Madhapur centre offers thefollowing services: a comprehensive eye examination, cataractsurgery using the most advanced techniques, laser refractivesurgery (LASIK), facial aesthetics including Botox and Fillers,customized optical and contact lens services as well as cornealtransplantation. The centre promises the same high standardsof excellence and efficiency that are a hallmark of L V PrasadEye Institute.A patient being examined at the Madhapur City Centre21 st General Meeting of TWASThe Academy of Sciences for the DevelopingWorld (TWAS) held its 21 st General Meetingin Hyderabad from October 19-22, 2010.Inaugurated by Prime Minister of IndiaDr Manmohan Singh, the meeting was attendedby over 350 scientists from 50 countries. LVPEI’sresearch arm, the Hyderabad Eye ResearchFoundation served as the local host.A press meet being addressed by Prof MHA Hassan, Treasurer; Prof CNR Rao,Immediate Past President; Prof Jacob Palis, President; andProf D Balasubramanian, Secretary General and Director-Research, LVPEI17Activity Report 2010–2011

LVPEI Extends its Expertise tothe EmiratesThe Institute has entered into an arrangementwith RAK Hospital, a premium healthcare facilityaccredited by Joint Commission International andSwiss Leading Hospitals to set up a state-of-the-arteye care facility in Ras Al Khaimah. Dr GullapalliN Rao, Chair, LVPEI signed the agreement withMr Raza Siddiqui, Executive Director of RAKHospital and ETA Star Healthcare and Dr G S KVelu, Chairman of Medfort Hospitals, at a functionheld at the Al Dhait Palace in Ras Al Khaimah on January24, 2011 in the presence of H H Sheikh Saud bin Saqr AlQasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras AlKhaimah, H H Sheikh Mohammed bin Saud bin Saqr AlQasimi, Crown Prince of Ras Al Khaimah.Dr Gullapalli N Rao, H H Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, and others at the signingof the agreement to set up the Eye Care Centre of Excellence in Ras Al KhaimahThe RAK LVPEI facility will be staffed by doctors and otherstaff from the LVPEI. It is scheduled to be operationalin one year. One of its early initiatives will be a firstof-its-kindcommunity screening program for blindnessprevention for the entire population of Ras Al Khaimah.Speaking on the occasion, Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimisaid, “We are happy to have this partnership betweenRAK Hospital and a renowned institution like L V PrasadEye Institute as we focus on enhancing the healthcareprovision capabilities of the Emirate and make it adestination for quality healthcare in the region.” Mr RazaSiddiqui said the facility would provide comprehensiveeye care not only to the citizens of the Emirates but alsoin the neighbouring countries.Dr Gullapalli N Rao said, “Blindness and vision impairmentare major public health problems all over the world,including the UAE region. Consequently, there is a greatneed to develop eye care centres of high quality in thearea. At LVPEI, we are delighted to collaborate with RAKHospital and Medfort in the development of world classeye care services, leading to the creation of a centre ofexcellence in eye care. This would encompass services totackle all eye care problems.”World Sight Day Celebrations Across the NetworkL V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), Hyderabad commemorated World Sight Day from October 14-21, 2010 withcelebrations across its entire network; Dr Padmaja K Rani led the program in the city. World Sight Day is observedannually to focus global attention on blindness, visual impairment and rehabilitation of the visually impaired. A largerally was organized by the Sight for Kids (SFK) Greater Hyderabad team,supported by Johnson & Johnson, Lions Club International Foundation(LCIF) and Lions Eye Hospitals of Greater Hyderabad. The Sight for Kidsprogram addresses visual impairment and promotes eye health awarenessamong schoolchildren between 5 and 9 years of age.Free medicines being distributed at ProddaturThe participants included schoolchildren (beneficiaries of the SFK program),Vision Technician students from LVPEI and optometry students of RangaReddy Lions Eye Hospital. The SFK partner eye hospitals conducted severalcommunity programs, while other screening programs were held in andaround Hyderabad. Awareness meetings were organized, especially inschools and colleges, with talks given on the prevention and treatment ofavoidable blindness. Free spectacles were distributed to those identifiedwith refractive errors.A new concept ‘Vision Garden’ (Nayana Vanam) project wasinaugurated at LVPEI’s secondary care center Seshanna ChennawarEye Centre in Adilabad district. Vegetables and fruits beneficial forthe eye are grown in the garden, like papaya, drumsticks, curryleaves, etc. A screening program for diabetes was conducted forthe high risk population at Ada village. Kuchukalla RamachandraReddy Eye Centre, Thoodukurthy, LVPEI’s second satellite centreat Mahabubnagar district, held a public meeting at Manthati village.The GMR Varalakshmi Campus, Visakhapatnam organized acommunity screening program; those identified with refractiveerrors were prescribed spectacles and those identified withcataract were referred for further examination.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency18A school screening program organized by the Visakhapatnam campus

Nurses DayInternational Nurses Day celebrations were held at the Institute on May 12,Florence Nightingale’s birthday – a tribute to the gentle art of nursing – the smileand the touch that promises care and compassion.Dr Archana Bhargava, InternalMedicine lights the lampThe nursing staff reaffirm thepledge of serviceClockwise from top: Mr Ramesh Prasad, Dr V Raghunathan,Dr Akkineni Nageswara Rao with LVPEI staff, and Dr Pravin V KrishnaPatient Care Day CelebrationsA day when the staff unwind … the Institute’s 23 rd anniversaryon June 1, 2010 was a lively event organized by the staff, for thestaff! Held each year to mark the day the outpatient clinics beganfunctioning at LVPEI, Hyderabad, the day enables us to see howfar we have come since June 1, 1987 – the day we saw our firstpatients. They were a paying patient (the son of a Banjara Hillsresident) and a non-paying patient (a gardener). From 9672patients seen and 486 surgeries performed in 1987, we have seena whopping 3,081,820 patients and performed 416,202 surgeriestill March 2011 at the Kallam Anji Campus, Hyderabad.This year too, the celebrations were marked with zeal andfervor. The program began with an interactive session on ChangeManagement by Prof S Ramnarayan, Visiting Professor at the IndianSchool of Business. This was followed by a talk on CorporateSocial Responsibility by Dr V Raghunathan, Chief Executive Officerof GMR Varalakshmi Foundation. The story behind the foundingof LVPEI was narrated by Mr Ramesh Prasad, Managing Director,Prasad Film Laboratories, and son of the legendary filmmakerShri L V Prasad, who had contributed generously towards theestablishment of the Institute. Dr Akkineni Nageswara Rao,veteran film actor, regaled the audience with interesting anecdotesfrom his life.A retrospective slide show by Dr Pravin V Krishna, Consultant,Cornea & Anterior Segment Services, took the staff downmemory lane. There was nostalgia and amused whispers as sepiaphotographs from the archives flashed on the screen one afteranother. The staff members shared lighter moments recallinginteresting incidents from their life at LVPEI. Some of the Institute’searly patients had an opportunity to share their experiences. Inthe evening, talented patient care staff commanded the stage witha variety of skits, songs and dances.19Activity Report 2010–2011

World Glaucoma Week CommemoratedThe Institute’s four campuses at Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar,Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada commemorated WorldGlaucoma Week (March 6-12, 2011) by organizing a slewof programs.The week-long events began with a press meet at KallamAnji Reddy campus in Hyderabad, where members ofthe print and electronic media listened to presentationsmade by Dr G Chandra Sekhar, Director and Dr Anil KMandal, Head, Glaucoma Services and Jasti V RamanammaChildren’s Eye Care Centre.At sunrise on March 6, over 200 people gathered fora Glaucoma Awareness Run at a park, comprising stafffrom various departments, students, fellows, doctors,city glaucoma specialists, patients, family members, andmembers of the pharma industry, to create awarenessabout this irreversible blinding disease.A Glaucoma Public Education Forum was held atHyderabad on March 12, which was attended by over150 people. The audience interacted with our doctors,actively participating in the question and answer session;several of them wanted to undergo an eye examinationto check glaucoma.The GMR Varalakshmi campus at Visakhapatnam alsoconducted a Public Education Forum and organised aradio broadcast on March 12.The new Kode Venkatadri Chowdary (KVC) campus atTadigadapa, Vijayawada organised a screening programthroughout the week and encouraged people at risk ofdeveloping glaucoma to have an eye examination. Ofthe 110 patients examined, 60 were suspected to haveglaucoma. The slogan for the event was, “Don’t lose sightof your family”.Glaucoma Update, a full-day CME program was held laterin the day wherein ophthalmologists and postgraduatesfrom Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar campusesparticipated through videoconference.On March 9, a well-attended public education forum wasorganized, where Dr G Chandra Shekar gave a lecture,followed by a discussion on various aspects of glaucoma.Doctors also gave a radio interview on March 16.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency20Top: Group photo atLVPEI Hyderabad afterthe Glaucoma Run.Clockwise from left:Dr G Chandra Sekhartalks to patients at theVijayawada campus,the Glaucoma Run atHyderabad, and theVijayawada Instituteentrance with awarenessposters (inset)

Dr Virender S Sangwan shows Mr Simon Creanaround the InstituteAustralian Trade Minister VisitsAustralian Trade Minister Mr Simon Crean visited the Institute on May 7,2010 to pursue the Australia-India Strategic Partnership, formally agreedupon by the Prime Ministers of both the countries in November 2009.The LVP team made presentations on the collaborative effort betweenthe Institute and the Vision Cooperative Research Centre of Australia indeveloping new technologies for tackling presbyopia and myopia.LVPEI-Bangladesh PartnershipIndia and Bangladesh share much more than a border. Both countries face the challenge of providing universal accessto health care and addressing issues of equity in health care service delivery. L V Prasad Eye Institute already hascollaborative linkages with two premier institutions in Bangladesh: the Islamia Eye Hospital, Dhaka and the ChittagongEye Infirmary and Training Institute, Chittagong. To explore how to take this partnership further, the Bangladesh HighCommissioner to India and Minister of State of Bangladesh Mr Tariq A Karim visited LVPEI in mid June 2010. Mr Karimpromised to work towards strengthening the partnership and facilitate Bangladeshi patients’ visits to the institute fortreatment.Tianjin Public Health BureauA delegation from Tianjin Public Health Bureau, China team visited LVPEI on June28, 2010 to study the Institute’s systems. The team included Ms Tian Huiguang,Vice Chairman, Tianjin Municipal Committee of The Chinese People’s PoliticalConsultative Conference and Deputy Director of Tianjin Public Health Bureau;Mr Tang Xin, President, Tianjin Eye Hospital; Mr Chen Zizhen, Director, TraditionalChinese Medicine Division, Tianjin Public Health Bureau; Mr Guo Qiang, President,Tianjin Chest Hospital; and Mr Yang Xuegang, President, Tianjin Haihe Hospital.Canadian Senate CommitteeA delegation from Canada’s Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs& International Trade visited the Institute on September 8, 2010to understand LVPEI’s collaborative partnerships with Canadianorganizations. The team comprised Mr Shaun Wedick, Consul &Senior Trade Commissioner, Canadian Consulate; Mr Vikram Jain,Trade Commissioner, Canadian Trade Office; and 10 Senators.Stanford Graduate School ofBusinessA delegation from the Stanford Graduate Schoolof Business, led by Prof David Bradford, Director,Executive Program in Leadership visited LVPEI inDecember 2010 as an organization of interest,given its success and impact in India. They alsoexplored a possible internship program at LVPEI.Hospital Delegation from ChinaA team from several hospitals in China visited LVPEI onFebruary 25, 2011 as part of the ‘Seeing is Believing’ Phase IVChina Project, supported by The Fred Hollows Foundationto learn about our model of eye care delivery. Yan Hetaofrom Bright Eye Hospital said, “L V Prasad has provided a rareopportunity to learn more on how to deliver eye care servicein communities. That’s greatly helpful for our future work.”21Activity Report 2010–2011

Annual Champalimaud Research SymposiumThe Fourth Champalimaud Research Symposium was heldon January 30, 2011, under the aegis of the ChampalimaudTranslational Centre for Eye Research (C-TRACER), setup with support from the Champalimaud Foundation ofLisbon, Portugal. Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Chair, LVPEI andDr D Balasubramanian, Director – Research at LVPEIwelcomed the distinguished guests. Dr Leonor Beleza,President, Champalimaud Foundation and other guestsfrom Lisbon, Portugal graced the occasion.Prof Narsing A Rao from Doheny Eye Institute, USAdelivered the Fourth Champalimaud Lecture. In his lectureon ‘MicroRNA therapeutic intervention in ameliorationof autoimmune uveitis and protection of photoreceptors’Prof Rao highlighted the surprising role of alpha B crystallin(a protein so far known to be essentially in the lens) inprotecting the retinal components from degradation.Following this were four invited lectures. In his talkon ‘Defining host-pathogeninteractions through genome-widescreens: An alternate approach todrug target discovery’ Dr KanuryVS Rao from the InternationalCentre for Genetic Engg & Biotech,New Delhi explained how he usedthe tools of systems biology toidentify many potential Dr Kanury VS Raodrug targets that can betested to kill the TB microbe.Dr José Cunha-VazNext, Dr José Cunha-Vaz from AIBILIC-TRACER, Portugal summarized theorganisation’s work on identifying the stagesin the progression of diabetic retinopathy.Endowment LecturesLATE SHRI PUSHKARLALJI TIBREWALA PUBLIC LECTUREScaling up India’s Eye BanksIndia bears the highest burden of corneal blindness globally, of which asignificant percentage can benefit from corneal transplantation. However, thatis dependent upon the adequate retrieval of donor corneas, led by an efficienteye banking system. Speaking on “Eliminating treatable corneal blindness throughsocial innovation: scaling up India’s eye banks”, Mr Tim Schottman, Senior VicePresident, Global Programs, SightLife, USA, said the gap between the demandand supply of corneas could be addressed by increasing the number of eye banksin the country and developing leaders in the field.Dr Leonor Beleza presents the Champalimaud commemorativeplaque to Prof Narsing A Rao as Dr D Balasubramanian looks onSpeaking on Project Prakash,Prof Pawan Sinha from theDepartment of Brain & CognitiveSciences, MIT, USA described hiscollaboration with eye hospitalsin Delhi, Rajasthan and UttarPradesh in helping childrenreceive sight-restoring cataractProf Pawan Sinha surgery, while summarizing hisresearch findings on how theirbrains rewire themselves as their vision develops andimproves.Dr Joaquim N Murta from theUniv Hospital, Coimbra, Portugalfocussed on the future prospects andadvances in corneal transplants in histalk on ‘Posterior corneal lamellartransplantation: past, present and futuredirections’.Dr Joaquim N MurtaDR RUSTAM D RANJI ROTARY LECTUREMr Schottman was delivering the annual Late Shri Pushkarlalji Tibrewala Dr Usha Gopinathan, Executive Director, LVPEI presents aPublic Lecture on September 20, 2010. After the lecture, the Tibrewala familyplaque to Mr Tim Schottman; centre: Mr O P Tibrewalarecognized the high performing corneal retrieval centres and presented mementos to their representatives.The lectureseries was initiated by industrialist Mr Om Prakash Tibrewala, former District Lion Governor and former president ofthe Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, in his father’s memory.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency22

An Eye on the PatientThe annual Dr Rustam D Ranji Rotary Lecture was heldon September 30, 2010. Dr Rohit Varma, Professorof Ophthalmology at Doheny Eye Institute, LA, USAdelivered a talk on “The patients’ perspective: Is itimportant when treating eye disease?” Dr Varma’sprimary research focuses on epidemiologic studies of eyedisease in children and aging populations.The lecture is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Hyderabad,District 3150 in memory of Dr Rustam Ranji, HonoraryOphthalmologist to the former Nizam of Hyderabad.DR C SYAMALA BHASKARAN ENDOWMENTFrom left: Dr G Chandra Sekhar, Dr Rohit Varma &Mr R Venkataram of the Rotary ClubDr Kakarla Subba Rao felicitates Dr Jerry ShieldsDR KAKARLA SUBBA RAO ENDOWMENT LECTUREDevelopments in Ocular OncologyInternationally acclaimed authority on ocular oncologyDr Jerry A Shields, Director of Ocular Oncology Serviceat Wills Eye Institute, delivered the First Dr KakarlaSubba Rao Endowment Lecture on ‘Interesting newdevelopments in ocular oncology’ on December 4, 2010.A radiologist of international repute, Dr K Subba Raoplayed a key role in developing Hyderabad’s Nizam’sInstitute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) into a premier healthcare institute of the state. Passionate about education, heinstituted an endowment lecture at LVPEI recently.LECTUREReducing the Incidence of DiabetesDr Tien Y Wong, Professor & Director, Singapore EyeResearch Institute delivered the 14 th Dr C SyamalaBhaskaran Endowment Lecture on November 15, 2010.Speaking on ‘The diabetes epidemic in Asia’ he saideffective blood sugar control can prevent microvascularcomplications like diabetic retinopathy and called for aprimary health care focus on preventive strategies.Dr C Syamala Bhaskaran is a recipient of the Dr B C RoyAward. Dr C Bhaskaran is former Professor and Head,Department of Microbiology, and Vice Chancellor, NTRUniversity of Health Sciences in Vijayawada.Dr CS Bhaskaran and Dr Syamala Bhaskaran felicitate Dr Wong23Dr Sajid Ali and his wife Dr Sunita with Dr Meenakshi Bhat (right)NAWAB ARASTU YAR JUNG BAHADUR MEMORIALLECTURESocio-cultural Aspects of GeneticCounsellingEminent genetic clinician and counsellor, Dr MeenakshiBhat of the Centre for Human Genetics, Bangaloredelivered the Third Nawab Arastu Yar Jung BahadurMemorial Lecture on March 5, 2011. Speaking on‘Social and cultural issues in genetic counselling’ Dr Bhatexplained genetic counselling in terms of the questionsthat patients normally ask a counsellor. Drawing uponher experience as a clinical geneticist and paediatrician,she highlighted the cultural and social factors that governhow families receive and interpret issues related to themanagement of a genetic disease.The biennial Nawab Arastu Yar Jung Bahadur MemorialLecture was instituted by Dr Sajid Ali, in memory of hisgrandfather Dr Abdul Husain, personal physician to MirMehboob Ali Khan, the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad.Activity Report 2010–2011

News fromBhubaneswar CampusThe year 2010 – 2011 has been a good year of all-round progress in the Bhubaneswar campus. We examinedover 75,000 patients and operated upon close to 7500 patients. Almost 25 percent of outpatients weretreated at no cost to them, while 37 percent surgeries were performed free of cost.In eye banking, the institute has made tremendous progress. From a humble beginning of less than 10 corneascollected in the year 2007, 340 corneas were collected last year. With this progress, there is hardly any waitingperiod for corneal transplantation patients at the institute. Additionally, we were able to support many corneasurgeons in different parts of the country.On the research front, the institute received a grant from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) forinvestigation in Ocular Microsporidia. The faculty published 31 research papers in various national andinternational journals. Our publication in the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology was adjudged the best publicationand received the Diamond Award.The faculty brought many laurels to the institute. While two of our faculty members were admitted to theNational Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS) – one as a Fellow and another as a Member, a third bagged theprestigious BOYSCAST fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to work in his areaof interest at Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles, USA.On the education front, the institute has just began the process of building a separate center, the PathakCenter for Eye care Education, with the generous support of Shri SK Pathak. Expected to be completed in tenmonths time, it will help expand the educational activities of the institute.The Fifth Anniversary Tree painting

4 th Anniversary CelebrationsL V Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar celebrated its 4 th anniversaryon July 3, 2010, by conducting a Continuous Medical Education (CME)program on ‘Neonatal ophthalmology’. Prof Lingam Gopal fromSankara Nethralaya, Chennai was the resource faculty, while LVPEIfaculty from Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar campusalso delivered lectures. Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Chair, LVPEI networkcongratulated the staff on the progress made and presented coursecompletion certificates and awards to the employees.Liza Samal, patient care supervisor receives hercertificate from Dr Gullapalli N RaoDr Savitri Sharma receiving a memento fromDr K M Baisakh, former President of IAMMAnnual Conference of IAMMThe 4 th Annual Conference of the Indian Association of MedicalMicrobiologists (IAMM), Orissa Chapter was held on August 8, 2010with Dr Savitri Sharma as the Organising Secretary. The conference wasinaugurated by Dr C S Bhaskaran, renowned microbiologist and formerVice Chancellor of NTR Medical University. Lt Gen D Raghunath (Retd),member of Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation’s governing board, washonoured with the Prof Bikram Das Memorial Oration award. A total of 14free papers were presented by the faculty and postgraduate students fromdifferent parts of Orissa.Operation Eyesight Partners MeetOperation Eyesight India conducted a workshop for its partners atBhubaneswar from December 8-9, 2010, with 18 partner hospitalsfrom different parts of the country. The theme was "How tostrengthen the hospital based community eye health programme"in each area. Resource persons from OE India helped developindividual project proposals.25Art CampAn Art Camp, coordinated by MrSurya Prakash and Mr Sisir Sahana,was organised from November9-14, 2010. Fifteen artists fromKolkata, Hyderabad & Bhubaneswarparticipated, creating 28 beautifulpaintings, which now adorn the wallsof the institute.Artist: Mr RaghunathActivity Report 2010–2011

Ground-breaking ceremony of Residence Hall. From left: Dr GullapalliN Rao, Dr Taraprasad Das, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam & Mr Ramesh Prasad5 th Institute Day CelebrationsThe 5 th Institute Day celebrations of Bhubaneswar campuswere held from January 15-16, 2011 on a grand scale.Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India was thechief guest for the event, which included:• The inauguration of the Dalmia OphthalmicPathology Laboratory, with support from OCL IndiaLtd.,• The ground-breaking ceremony of Residence Hall – ahostel facility for trainees and visiting faculty,• The ground-breaking ceremony of the Pathak Centrefor Eye care Education,• Christening of the amphitheatre pathway as the “IRKMurthy Walk”, and• The First Bijayananda Patnaik Memorial Lecture.Dr Kalam with invited facultyDr APJ Abdul Kalam delivered the First BijayanandaPatnaik Memorial Lecture on the 15 th . Dr GullapalliN Rao, Chair, LVPEI emphasized the public-privatenature of the partnership in the development of theBhubaneswar campus. Dr Taraprasad Das, Director,LVPEI Bhubaneswar spoke of the campus’ achievementsover the last 5 years, while Dr Savitri Sharma, AssociateDirector, gave a road map for the next five years. Theevent concluded with a program showcasing the culturaland artistic heritage of Orissa.To commemorate the occasion ‘EYE 2011’, a CMEprogram on ‘Contemporary Practice in Ophthalmology’was organized, with 11 internationally acclaimed facultyfrom six different countries contributing to the academicdeliberations. (More in Education section)Dr APJ Abdul Kalam signs the ‘Fifth Anniversary Tree’ painting;the leaves bear the name of each employee who hascompleted 5 years of service at the Bhubaneswar campusThe Krishna Troupe forms a tableau of the Indian TricolourORBIS Team VisitA team from ORBIS including Dr Abu Raihan, Advisor Ophthalmology, Asia,Dr Larry Benjamin, Voluntary Faculty, UK, Ms Lene Overland, Directorof Programs, ORBIS Europe, Middle East & Africa, Dr Lutful Husain, staffophthalmologist for South Asia, Mr Samson Cheung, Finance Dept ofORBIS Asia, and Mr Golden Frankly, Program Manager, ORBIS India visitedthe campus on March 3, 2011 to discuss a possible collaboration in Orissa.Dr Taraprasad Das briefed them about the achievements of the campus andits future plans.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency26

News from GMR Varalakshmi Campus,VisakhapatnamLVPEI’s GMR Varalakshmi campus was established in 2006 – a tertiary eye care centre offering the full rangeof ophthalmology services to anyone who walks through its doors. As we complete 5 years, we have comeone step closer to replicating the LVPEI Eye Health Pyramidal model in the north coastal region of AndhraPradesh, with the inauguration of our first 2 Vision Centres at Shrungavarapukota and Chodavaram. Set in theheart of rural Andhra Pradesh, these 2 centres, located about 60 km from the main GMR Varalakshmi campus,are amongst the finest Vision Centres in the Institute’s network in terms of the allocated space and ambience.We plan to set up a total of 30 Vision Centres in Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram districts in the coming year.Our community eye care team comprising of a field coordinator and 5 field workers screened over 10,000 schoolchildren and more than 2000 adults in a door-to-door survey of 5 mandals allotted by the District BlindnessControl Society. Their efforts resulted in almost 1000 patients with sight-threatening problems being referred tothe Institute for eye care.We continued our efforts to spread awareness about eye diseases among children and the elderly by conductingscreening programs for these focus groups in the months of June and July. A senior citizens’ screening programwas launched by Mrs Purandareswari, MP.During the year, we saw more than 70,000 patients in the outpatient department (25% free) and performed closeto 7000 surgeries, 42% entirely free of cost. All credit goes to our dedicated team of consultants and patient carestaff! We are confident that 2011-2012 will be as fruitful and exciting as this year.

New Facilities on 4 th AnniversaryLVPEI’s GMR Varalakshmi campus, Visakhapatnam celebrated its 4 th anniversary on July 7, 2010, with an eventful week!The highlights included the inauguration of several new facilities by the staff members:• a LASIK theatre,• a wet lab for trainees,• a diagnostics center,• a new OPD area,• a telecounselling department and• an audiovisual department.As part of the celebrations, Childhood Blindness Fortnight was observed from June21 – July 3, 2010 during which 349 children below the age of 12 were screenedfor eye problems, free of charge. A school screening program was launchedunder the Nimmagadda Prasad – LVPEI Children’s Eye Health Initiative, with 675schoolchildren being screened. Free spectacles were distributed to poor childrenfrom various schools.B Anjaneyulu, Administrator inauguratesthe tele-counselling officeThe staff with their prizes for sports and games...From left: G Appanna, P Anandkumar, A Venkat, K Gopal Rao,K Narendra, Dr PVKS Varma, K Veerababu and K LokeshP Anand Kumar, Senior Optometristinaugurates the new diagnostics roomsK Narendra, senior Biomedical Technicianinaugurates the audiovisual roomInto the Community and in SchoolsIn line with our public health focus, community eye care services were formally launched with a school screeningprogram on June 29, 2010 in Visakhapatnam district, with support from the District Blind Control Society (DBCS),which has allotted 5 underserved mandals in Visakhapatnam district to provide eye care through household, communityand school screenings. A community eye care team was established with one coordinator and 5 field workers for eachmandal. During the year 19 community screening programs were conducted, including one on January 4, 2011 withsupport from the Rotary Club, Vizianagaram.Snapshots of a communityscreening program conducted byLVPEI, Visakhapatnam campusExcellence | Equity | Efficiency28

Screening Programs on the CampusThree free eye screening programs were conducted at the Institute:• During Childhood Blindness Fortnight, 349 children below the age of 12 were screened for eye problems(June 21 – July 3, 2010)• Screening for LASIK refractive surgery for 110 young adults (July 8-24, 2010)• General eye examinations for 140 senior citizens; Mrs D Purandareswari, Member of Parliament, inaugurated theprogram. (August 1-31, 2010)The free eye screening program for senior citizens being inaugurated by Mrs D Purandareswari with program supporters; from leftMr O Naresh (Head, Symbiosis Technologies), Mr Mavuri Venkata Ramana (Chair, CMR mall) and Dr Avinash PathengayVizag Launches its First Vision CentresThe campus inaugurated its first 2 Vision Centres (VC)on December 13, 2010 at Shrungavarapukota andChodavaram, both approx 60 kms away. These are thefirst of 30 VCs linked to LVPEI Visakhapatnam, to be setup during 2010 – 2013 with support from the LavelleFund for the Blind, Inc., USA.The Chodavaram VC premises were providedby a voluntary organization Premasamajam; theShrungavarapukota VC is supported by Bapuji Sevasangam.The spacious Vision Centres are an improvement on theearlier models. The communities of 50,000 people eachin some of the most underserved parts of the State willbenefit from these high quality primary eye care centres.Dr Gullapalli N Rao (Chair, LVPEI), Dr Merle Fernandes(Director, LVPEI, Visakhapatnam), Dr PVKS Varma andthe entire Vizag team participated in the inaugural, asdid representatives of the supporting organizations. Theinaugurals were followed by public meetings organizedby local communities to create awareness of the servicesavailable at the VCs.Dr Merle Fernandes, Director, LVPEI, Visakhapatnam; the Shrungavarapukota Vision Centre and the first patient being examined at Chodavaram29International TraineesDr Abdulla Saad Al-roabie, Consultant, Ophthalmology,Armed Forces Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (centre)with Dr Merle Fernandes, and Dr I S Murthy, (right) trainingin-charge. He came for a short-term fellowship in corneaand phacoemulsification.During the year, 5 international fellows came to the campus;this number will increase next year.Activity Report 2010–2011

Artists Ms Faiza Hasan andMr Raghunath Sahoo at workArtists WorkshopAn artists’ workshop was conducted from December 2-4,2010, with 12 artists from various cities participating. Thepaintings were donated to the institute. The program wasorganized by LVPEI’s artist-in-residence Mr Surya Prakash.A painting by Mr S GaneshWorld Optometry Day was celebrated on March 23, 2011 by optometrists, vision technicians and other staff.Mr Anand Kumar, senior optometrist gave a talk.Optometry internship: On May 31, 2010 written exams and interviews were conducted for 9 optometry studentskeen to do their internship at this campus. Later a workshop was conducted, led by Mrs G Rekha, Senior Optometrist.The workshop focused on both theory and interesting case discussions. Two candidates, Ms Apoorva Karsolia andMr Arnav Ghosh commented this was the first time that somebody had first coached them and then interviewed them!Excellence | Equity | Efficiency30

News from Kode Venkatadri ChowdaryCampus, VijayawadaLVPEI’s new tertiary centre, Kode Venkatadri Chowdary (KVC) campus at Tadigadapa, Vijayawada had a soft launchon February 16, 2011. Vijayawada is a very fertile agricultural belt and is one of the more literate, affluent andentrepreneurial areas in Andhra Pradesh.For L V Prasad Eye Institute, this was the first instancewhere the donor sponsored the land, the constructionof the building and the entire infrastructure at a stretch.This centre’s services will extend to 5 districts – Krishna,West Godavari, Prakasam, Guntur and Khammam – withan approximate population of 15 million.In short span of merely 6 weeks, more than 1500 patientswere seen at the centre. The surgical services will begin inJune 2011. The David Brown Children’s Eye Care Centreholds pride of place, offering comprehensive pediatriceye care under one roof, a felt need of the region.Dr Niranjan Pehere and Dr Antony Vipin Das show Mrs Brownaround the Children’s Eye Care CentreAnother signature feature of the Vijayawada centre isthat 70-80% of all employees are recruited from the localpopulation, contributing to employment opportunitiesand career development for the local youth.(More in News section, page 14)Members of Mr Kode Satyanarayan’s family – Mr K Venkata Ramana,Mrs KV Sandhya and Mr A Sudhakar, Mrs Soona & Mr Edward Brownand other dignitaries at the inaugurationDr Chadalavada Nageswara Rao,Vice-President, Siddhartha Academyof General & Technical Education,Vijayawada and his wife light the lampat the inaugurationA patient being examinedat KVC campusRight: Mr Gaurav Uppal, Joint Collector,Krishna district views the facilities31Activity Report 2010–2011

Alumni newsAnnual Meeting at BhubaneswarThe 2011 LVPEI alumni meeting was a great success – marked by bonhomie and learning. This year, the meeting was heldat L V Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, as part of its 5 th anniversary celebrations from January 15-16, 2011. The eventsincluded a CME program ‘EYE 2011’ and a cultural fiesta, with former President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam gracing theoccasion. Many LVPEI alumni, from India andoverseas, attended the annual get-together andpresented their work at the CME, which wasappreciated by all the participants. The alumnialso had a unique opportunity to interact withDr APJ Abdul Kalam at a special session onJanuary 15, 2011.The meeting also recognized the fact thatalumni from various parts of India and abroadcontinue to utilize LVPEI’s resources, suchas corneal tissues, amniotic membranes,tissue glue and polyhexamethylene biguanide(PHMB).Dr Abdul Kalam with Mr Premanand Thudia, Dr Das andDr Somasheila Murthy inaugurate the IRK Murthy walkAlumnus and current consultant at LVPEI Hyderabad, Dr Somasheila Murthy made a donation inthe name of her father, Late Shri IRK Murthy. It supported the construction of a beautiful gardenwalkway, which was inaugurated by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.Alumni HighlightsTariq Ali‘Fazlul Haque Memorial Award’ at the 10 th biennialconference of SAARC Academy of Ophthalmology(SAO) and 38 th annual conference of OphthalmologicalSociety of Bangladesh (OSB), March 2011. Topic: Clinicalfeatures and visual outcome of VKH – experience at atertiary eye care centre of Bangladesh.Sameer DatarBest Video award for ‘Boston Keratoprosthesis’ atthe Maharashtra Ophthalmological Society AnnualConference “MOSCON”, Sangli, October 2010.It’s been one year since I cameto LVPEI for a 1 month retinatraining. It was a good month oftraining with very knowledgeablepeople at Hyderabad. I will cherishthose moments all my life!I have started my own Medical Retinaunit with Canon CF1 Fundus cam andC-Zeiss 532nm YAG green laser. Mypractice at LVPEI helped me in doingquality FFAs and PRP, focal laserswith great confidence. I really thank allDr Girish BhatMumbaiof you there at LVPEI, for whatever Iam doing in the field of retina.Mayur MorekarAIOS-Inflammation Award for the year 2010 at theAll India Ophthalmological Society Conference atAhmedabad, February 2011. Topic: Microbiology basedtherapy in cosmetic contact lens related polymicrobialkeratitis with good visual outcome.Somasheila MurthyCataract – AIOS Sante Vision Award at All IndiaOphthalmological Society Conference at Ahmedabad,February 2011. Topic: Investigation of a new dual-opticaccommodating intraocular lens in cataract surgery,phase II study.Debraj ShomeTrauma – AIOS award at All India OphthalmologicalSociety Conference at Ahmedabad, February 2011.Topic: Oculo-facial trauma – rapid rise of the oculoplasticsurgeon to more “plastic” & less “oculo”!Devindra SoodElected Secretary of the Glaucoma Society of India at itsXX annual meeting, November 2010.Rishi SwarupFirst prize in National Ophthalmology Quiz at All IndiaOphthalmological Society Conference at Ahmedabad,February 2011. He won a Maruti Alto car!32

Honors & AwardsSubhabrata Chakrabarti• Invited to join the Publications Committee ofARVO from 2011• Young Scientist Award, Asia-Pacific GlaucomaSociety and SEAGIGTaraprasad Das• Associate Editor, APJO (Asia Pacific Journal ofOphthalmology)• Member, Research Committee, APAO (Asia PacificAcademy of Ophthalmology)• Vice President, APVRS (Asia Pacific Vitreo RetinalSociety)Usha GopinathanInvited to be a member of the eye bank advisorygroup of ISBT 128 that stands for global standardsfor identification, labeling and information processingof human blood, tissues and organ products acrossinternational borders and disparate health care systemsVijaya K GothwalFellowship by the American Academy of Optometry,San Francisco, USA. November 2010Santosh G Honavar• Invited to serve as Committee Chair to update theInternational Council of Ophthalmology ResidencyCurriculum for the Oculoplastic Surgery and Orbitsection• Invited to join the Advisory Committee of theInternational Council of Ophthalmology torepresent ophthalmic plastic and reconstructivesurgeryRamesh KekunnayaAppointed Professional Education Committee Member,American Academy for Pediatric Ophthalmology andStrabismus, 2011Milind NaikElected Vice President of the Asia Pacific Society ofOphthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for2010-2012, the youngest to hold that office till dateRaja NarayananAchievement Award, American Academy ofOphthalmology. November 2010Gullapalli N Rao• Received the World Cornea Congress medal for2010 at the World Cornea Congress VI in Boston,Massachusetts, USA (April 2010). He is one of fiveindividuals selected for outstanding contributionsto the specialty of cornea and external disease inthe last several decades. The recognition comesfrom the community of corneal specialists, bothclinicians and basic scientists, across the world attheir largest congress ever.• Conferred the degree of Doctor of Science(Honoris Causa) by the Dr NTR University ofHealth Sciences at its XIV Convocation (April2010). The university includes Dr Rao’s almamater, Guntur Medical College and is the firsthealth university established in India by the StateGovernment of Andhra Pradesh.• Awarded the prestigious Bernardo Streiff GoldMedal, given by the Academia OphthalmologicaInternationalis once in four years, for his contributionto ophthalmology at the World OphthalmologyCongress 2010 in Berlin (June 2010).• Awarded the Jose Rizal Medal by the Asia-PacificAcademy of Ophthalmology for outstandingophthalmologists in the Asia-Pacific region, at its25 th annual meeting in Beijing (September 2010).Dr Santosh G Honavar receiving the Shanti Swarup BhatnagarPrize from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhion October 20, 2010. Dr Honavar was awarded the prize inMedical Sciences for 2009 for seminal contributions to themanagement of advanced retinoblastoma with dramaticallyimproved patient survival, eye salvage and visual recovery.33Geeta K Vemuganti• President Elect, International Society of OphthalmicPathology• Invited to serve as Committee Member to updatethe International Council of OphthalmologyResidency Curriculum for the Ocular PathologysectionActivity Report 2010–2011

Deepak K BaggaTravel grant from International Society for Low VisionResearch and Rehabilitation to attend the InternationalConference on Low Vision at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia inFebruary 2011Ujwala BahetiAccepted by Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, MA,USA, for a research fellowship, beginning July 2011. Sheis one of LVPEI’s first batch of residents.Murali Mohan Sagar BallaARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting at FortLauderdale, FL, USA. May 2010Sujata DasAFER/ARVO Developing Country Eye ResearcherFellowship (DCERF) Award [The ARVO Foundation forEye Research (AFER)/The Association for Research inVision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)]Subhadra Jalali• Appointed on the editorial board of World Journal ofVitreoretinal Diseases• Invited to be one of the five judges for the prestigiousDodt Award and also chairperson for poster sessionB at ISCEV 2010 in Perth, AustraliaInderjeet KaurInternational Society for Eye Research (ISER) Travelfellowship (USA) to attend the International Congress onEye Research at Montreal, Canada. July 2010InternationalVideo AwardsS KrishnaiahProf Yasuo Tano Travel Grant for Asia Pacific Academyof Ophthalmology Congress 2011 at Sydney, Australia.March 2011Indumathi MariappanARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting in May 2011Manju MeenaIllumina travel fellowship grant and CSIR foreign travelgrant for Asia ARVO meeting at Singapore. January 2011Ashik MohamedARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting in May 2011Milind NaikAppointed Adjunct Associate Professor ofOphthalmology, School of Medicine and Dentistry,University of Rochester Medical Centre, Rochester, NY,USAVidya Latha ParsamARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting at FortLauderdale, FL, USA. May 2010D SrikanthARVO travel grant for poster presentation at Asia ARVOmeeting in Singapore. January 2011P VeerendranathARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting in May 2011Geeta K VemugantiICMR travel grant to attend the World OphthalmicCongress, Berlin, Germany. June 2010INTERNATIONALAmerican Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeryfilm festival, Boston, USA (April 2010)Best film in quality teaching category: Peripheral ulcerativekeratitis: An enigma for clinicians – Dr Merle Fernandes,Dr Madhushmita Das, Dr Virender S SangwanRunner-up prize in special interest category: OSSN: Tips andtricks – Dr Savari Desai, Dr Santosh Honavar25 th Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology jointmeeting with American Academy of Ophthalmology,Beijing, China (September 2010)Best of Show Video: Deep Sclerectomy with CO 2–Dr G Chandra Sekhar, Dr Sirisha Senthil, Dr Anil K MandalDr G Chandra Sekhar receives the awardXXVIII Congress of European Society of Cataract andRefractive Surgeons & XX EURETINA (EuropeanSociety of Retina Specialists) meeting, Paris, France(September 2010)Second prize in film festival: Dancing nematodes in the eye –Dr Avinash Pathengay, Dr Soumyava Basu, Dr G WilliamAylward, Dr Biju RajuJoint Meeting of the American Academy ofOphthalmology and Middle East Africa Council ofOphthalmology, Chicago, USA (October 2010)AAO Best of Show Video: Sebaceous Gland Carcinoma: Theleading masquerade – Dr Surbhi D Joshi, Dr Santosh G Honavar,Dr Geeta K Vemuganti, Dr Milind N Naik, Dr Mohd Javed AliNATIONALOphthalmic Premiere League competition, annualEast India Zonal Ophthalmic Conference, Disha EyeHospital, Kolkata (June 2010)First Prize: Sameer Mahapatra, as part of the Orissa State team,for the entry from LVPEI, BhubaneswarAndhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad (October 2010)Swarup Medal: 20 years of comprehensive care for children withcongenital glaucoma – Dr Anil Kumar MandalParadigm 2010, 21 st annual conference of OculoplasticsAssociation of India, Mumbai (November 2010)Best Video Award: Non surgical management of congenital eyelidmalformations – Dr Manju MeenaExcellence | Equity | Efficiency34

Soumyava BasuBetter Opportunities for Young Scientists in ChosenAreas of Science and Technology (BOYSCAST)fellowship from Department of Science and Technology,Government of India, to work at Doheny Eye Institute,Los Angeles, USA. June – September 2010Shrikant BharadwajDST Fast Track grant entitled “Control of focusingand eye alignment during human visual development”recommended for funding for three yearsSubhabrata ChakrabartiMehra INACO Award by Indian Association ofCommunity OphthalmologyRavikumar ChukkaBest Research Paper Award at the First InternationalConference on Community Ophthalmology, Kolkata.November 2010Sujata DasElected Member, National Academy of Medical Sciencesat its golden jubilee convocation in Patiala. October 2010Taraprasad DasChair, National Board of Examination OphthalmologySpecialty BoardTarjani Dave• Best Histopathologic Photograph award at the AnnualConference of Oculoplasty Association of India,Mumbai. November 2010• Quiz Winner at the Annual Conference of OculoplastyAssociation of India, Mumbai. November 2010• International Travel Grant to IESGDR, Bangalore.January 2011Subhash GaddipatiBest poster presentation at Indian Eye Research Group2010 meeting. July – August 2010Usha GopinathanElected President of the Eye Bank Association of India fora period of three years, effective April 1, 2010Surbhi JoshiDepartment of Science and Technology Travel Grant forAAO 2010Inderjeet KaurDBT-CREST (Cutting Edge Research Enhancementand Scientific Training Award) from the Departmentof Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology,Government of IndiaVilas KovaiAmjad Rahi Prize for Best Oral Presentation in BasicSciences at Indian Eye Research Group meeting.July – August, 2010Ajit Babu MajjiDeclared Chairman of Academic & Research Committeeof the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS). He isNational35the third person from LVPEI to be elected unanimouslyto the Governing Council of AIOS – the other two wereDr Gullapalli N Rao and Dr Taraprasad Das, both Editors,Indian Journal of OphthalmologyIndumathi MariappanYoung Scientist Fast Track research grant from theDepartment of Science and Technology, Government ofIndiaManju MeenaBest Photo Award and First Prize in Ophthalmic Quiz atParadigm 2010, 21 st annual conference of OculoplasticsAssociation of India, Mumbai. November 2010Somasheila MurthyBest Paper award, Cataract Session (AIOS SANTEVISION award) at the All India Ophthalmology Congress,Ahmedabad. February 2011Milind NaikWebmaster of the Oculoplasty Association of IndiaKunjal SejpalBest Scientific Paper in Cornea session at the All IndiaOphthalmology Congress, Ahmedabad. February 2011Savitri SharmaElected Fellow, National Academy of Medical Sciences atits golden jubilee convocation in Patiala. October 2010Sandhya SubramanianBest oral presentation at Indian Eye Research Groupmeeting. July – August 2010T Shyam SunderBest Scientific Paper Award at the ESO InternationalVision Science and Optometry Conference (EIVOC),Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. August 2010Naga Chandrika TBest Poster Award at the 35 th All India OptometryConference at Jaipur. January 2011Pravin K VaddavalliShiv Prasad Hardia award for Best Paper in refractivesurgery at All India Ophthalmological Society meeting,Kolkata. January 2010Geeta K Vemuganti• Shyam Lal Saxena Memorial Award for her paper atthe National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS)golden jubilee convocation in Patiala. October 2010• Best oral presentation by NAMS awardeesAravind Roy, Sujata Das, Srikant Sahu,Suryasnata RathAmjad Rahi Prize for Best Poster at the Indian EyeResearch Group meeting. July – August 2010Sujata Das, Savitri Sharma, Sarita Kar, SrikantSahu, Bikash Samal, Aparajita MallickIJO-AIOS Golden Award – 2010Activity Report 2010–2011

RegionalMohd Javed AliVengal Rao Medal & Sunayana Award for Best Paperat ‘eye2future’, 34 th annual meeting of Andhra PradeshOphthalmological Society, Hyderabad. October 2010D BalasubramanianEminent Citizen Award, Sanathan Dharma Foundation,HyderabadSunita ChaurasiaBest Paper Award in Madiraju Ashok Free Paper Sessionat ‘eye2future’, 34 th annual meeting of Andhra PradeshOphthalmological Society, Hyderabad. October 2010Taraprasad DasMember, Board of Studies in Ophthalmology, KIITUniversity, BhubaneswarSubhadra JalaliFeatured in “APOS News & Views” annual newsletter asa Trendsetter, September 2010Ajit Babu MajjiDr Gullapalli Venkateswar Rao Oration Award at GunturOphthalmic Association meeting, Guntur.November 2010R MuralidharSrikiran Award for Best Poster at ‘eye2future’, 34 th annualmeeting of Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society,Hyderabad. October 2010R RajyalakshmiBest Paper Award in Postgraduate Paper Session at‘eye2future’, 34 th annual meeting of Andhra PradeshOphthalmological Society, Hyderabad. October 2010Virender Sangwan• Raghavachary Award for Best Free Paper at‘eye2future’, 34 th annual meeting of Andhra PradeshOphthalmological Society, Hyderabad. October 2010• Prof Mahendra Mishra Oration award by Orissa StateOphthalmological Society presented by Chief Ministerof Orissa Shri Naveen Patnaik, November 2010• Dr Shantilal Modi Oration award by AhmedabadOphthalmology Society, January 2011• Karmabhoomi Award for Medical Sciences by HaryanaInstitute of Fine Arts, Karnal, Haryana. Presented byDr Farooq Abdullah, March 2011R Rajyalakshmi, Siddharth Dikshit & PriyankaGogte (Residents Quiz Team) – Third prize at‘eye2future’, 34 th annual meeting of Andhra PradeshOphthalmological Society, Hyderabad. October 2010Green awards for LVPEIKismatpur campusKallam Anji Reddy campusL V Prasad Eye Institute’s Kismatpur campus won the ‘First Prize’ and the Kallam AnjiReddy campus in Banjara Hills won the ‘Second Prize’ in the ‘Gardens maintained byPrivate Institutions Category’ at the Garden Festival 2011 organized by the Departmentof Horticulture, Government of Andhra Pradesh. All credit goes to Mr Modin Basha, incharge of the gardens at both our campuses and his team for their hard work.Mr Basha (left) receives the award withMr Rupesh Kumar, Assistant Director, LVPEI (right)Sisir Sahana, artist-in-residence at LVPEIArtistic Spirit Award 2010 for his film Maati-O-Manush (The Soiland the People) at the New Hope Film Festival, USA.Mr Sisir Sahana (centre) with Danny Sailor (Director, Submissions) and ThomMichael Mulligan (Executive Director, Submissions)Excellence | Equity | Efficiency36

Patient Care ServicesPatient care is the raison d’etre of L V Prasad Eye Institute — excellent and efficient eye care deliveredwith equity to all in need, regardless of the ability to pay. Starting with 5 examination rooms andtwo operating theatres 24 years ago we have grown into a state-of-the-art facility with more than 50examination rooms and 9 operating theatres at the Institute’s main Kallam Anji Reddy campus alone. Withthe growing trust in our services from the community that emanates from our vision of excellence with equityand the dedication of our committed staff, we continue to expand. The Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnamtertiary centres are almost five years old, while the new Vijaywada tertiary centre is seeing a steady streamof patients. Along with our secondary and primary care centres across the state of Andhra Pradesh, we nowhave a presence in 87 different locations. As we enter the 25 th year of patient care it is time to thank thecommunity and our staff and rededicate ourselves to “excellent patient care regardless of the ability to pay”.As we recapitulate the significant achievements and milestones in the last year, we notice with pride thatpatients come to the LVP campuses from all over the world. This year we saw 1259 patients from 46developed and developing countries – UK, USA, Canada and Australia to Sri Lanka, Ukraine, and the middleeast nations.At the Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad and the 3 tertiary centres (Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam and thefledgling Vijayawada centre, just one and a half months old) we saw a total of 365,193 patients, of which 28%were examined free of cost. We performed 52,428 surgeries, 43% of them entirely free of cost, regardlessof complexity. It is noteworthy that of the 22,672 non-paying surgeries performed, 8726 were cataract, whilethe remaining 62% were advanced and specialized services, offered entirely free of cost.There were other significant achievements in the area of patient care. The number of corneal transplantsperformed across the network last year was 1720, one of the highest for a single Institute in the world. Ourstem cell therapy for the ocular surface continues to bring us laurels and immense satisfaction. Last yearwe also upgraded our cornea refractive surgery services, with the addition of a Femtosecond Laser. Ourfour dedicated Children’s Eye Care Centres provided eye care to 51,695 children, 28% free of cost andperformed 8019 surgeries, 48% of them free of cost. The Centres continue to provide advanced servicesin the areas of retinoblastoma, retinopathy of prematurity, developmental glaucoma, pediatric cataract andcorneal transplants, among others.A new concept, the City Centre is aimed at bringing LVPEI’s excellent eye care closer to the doorstep of theurban population by providing quick eye examinations and a wide range of surgeries. The first City Centre atMadhapur in Hyderabad’s IT hub, set up on August 16, 2010, saw 8677 patients and performed 400 surgeriestill March 31, 2011. More city centres are coming up shortly in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Hyderabad.As the Institute enters its Silver Jubilee Year on June 1, 2011, there are many new horizons to conquer andwe are ready for the challenge!

Patient CareCampusTertiary & Advanced Tertiary CareOutpatient visitsSurgical proceduresPaying Non-paying Total Paying Non-paying TotalKallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad 152,166 64,489 216,655 21,027 17,039 38,066Bhubaneswar Campus, Bhubaneswar 57,806 17,466 75,272 4727 2727 7454GMR Varalakshmi Campus, Visakhapatnam 53,707 18,040 71,747 4002 2906 6908*Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus, Vijayawada 896 623 1519 – – –TOTAL 264,575 100,618 365,193 29,756 22,672 52,428*Launched February 16, 2011; surgical services from June 2011SurgeriesBreak-up of Surgical ProceduresKallam Anji ReddyCampus, HyderabadBhubaneswar Campus,BhubaneswarGMR Varalakshmi Campus,VisakhapatnamCataract 12,004 2975 3320 18,299Cornea 4846 380 698 5924Corneal transplants 1336 194 190 1720Glaucoma 1208 211 161 1580Retina & Vitreous 12,452 2387 621 15,460Squint 1070 80 194 1344Oculoplasty 4450 886 311 5647LASIK 700 95 313 1108Others - 246 1100 1346TOTAL 38,066 7454 6908 52,428TotalInternational Patients at LVPEI1259 from 46 countriesExcellence | Equity | Efficiency38

CampusJasti V Ramanamma Children’s Eye Care Centre,HyderabadMiriam Hyman Children’s Eye Care Centre,BhubaneswarNimmagadda Prasad Children’s Eye Care Centre,VisakhapatnamThe David Brown Children’s Eye Care Centre,Vijayawada (Inaugurated January 29, 2011)Children’s Eye CareOutpatient visitsSurgical proceduresPaying Non-paying Total Paying Non-paying Total24,328 10,813 35,141 3385 3256 66416163 2151 8314 320 346 6666587 1503 8090 428 284 71282 68 150 – – –TOTAL 37,160 14,535 51,695 4133 3886 8019These numbers are included in the patient care summary on the earlier page.Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) programHyderabadBhubaneswarBabies screened 999 (586 at LVPEI and 413 in NICU)* 317Laser sessions 135 158 (26 in NICU) 12Retcam photos 77 sessions 67 sessionsPediatric retina surgeries 467 452 148ROP surgeries 5074 2*NICU - Neo-natal Intensive Care UnitA MilestoneA dedicated full-day Pediatric Retina Service was launched from January 2011. The service runs every Saturday in theJasti V Ramanamma Children’s Eye Care Centre at the Hyderabad campus providing comprehensive care for pediatricretinal diseases. Children can be seen simultaneously by a team of specialists, expert in handling both routine and rarepediatric retinal conditions. The team comprises pediatric retina consultants, trained optometrists, child rehabilitationand low vision consultants, pediatric ophthalmologists, a pediatric anesthesiologist and a pediatrician.A low number of ROP surgeries indicates the success of our screening and laser program. This year’s 50 ROP surgerieswere performed mostly for babies referred to us from outside our ROP program, which is a recognition of ourestablished ROP and pediatric retina surgery centre.39Activity Report 2010–2011

PatientspeakA Tough Little SurvivorBaby Om Behera was 11 months old when he wasbrought to the Miriam Hyman Children’s Eye CareCentre (MHCECC) oncology unit at LVPEI, Bhubaneswar.Om had suffered a terrible infection in his right eye amonth earlier and had been treated at an eye hospital inCuttack. Sadly, Om lost all vision in his right eye after theattack. Then his left eye showed a peculiar white reflex,which bothered his parents. When they brought it to thenotice of the eye surgeon at Cuttack, he referred themto LVPEI, Bhubaneswar.Om underwent a detailed evaluation under anaesthesiaat the MHCECC. The right eye was disfigured after theinfection attack and, unfortunately, did not have anypotential for vision. The left eye showed a large yellowcoloured mass in the retina, which was diagnosed asretinoblastoma of the left eye, an eye cancer typically seenin young children. The possibility that the right eye mayhave also harboured a tumour which had spontaneouslyregressed made things worse for the parents.The ocular oncology team realized how difficult thingswere for the family. After detailed discussions theydecided to treat the baby with chemotherapy and surgery.The treatment continued for several months with severalcycles of chemotherapy, in addition to localized measureslike lasers to control the tumour in the only good eye oflittle Om. Several months later, on a visit to the institute,Om surprised everyone by confidently walking aboutwithout any help from his parents. His parents werejubilant that Om could see and recognize them.Om was kept under close observation for the next twoyears. One day, his parents came to the Institute with acomplaint that Om was unable to see with his left eye.The boy had sustained an injury to his head about a weekago and had lost his vision.An examination revealed that Om had a retinaldetachment and a complicated cataract in his left eye.He was operated first for his cataract and then for theretinal detachment. He regained useful vision in the lefteye again, much to the relief of his grateful parents.A Corneal Transplant Leads to Better GradesTen-year-old Murukutla Sampath was studying in theseventh class, when his class teacher noticed that hewas finding it difficult to copy from the blackboard. Hisparents took him to an ophthalmologist in Vijayawadawho diagnosed him with allergic conjunctivitis andprescribed some eye drops. When this did not helpmuch, his father brought him to LVPEI, Hyderabad wherea corneal consultant diagnosed him with keratoconus andallergic conjunctivitis in both the eyes.Sampath was prescribed RGP (rigid gas permeable or‘semi-soft’) contact lenses. He used the lenses for a yearbut his parents felt that his vision had not improved. Norwas he comfortable with the lenses. His performance atschool had not improved; he had done badly and hadbeen asked to repeat the class.In August 2006, Sampath’s father took the boy to theInstitute’s GMR Varalakshmi campus at Visakhapatnam.His visual acuity had dropped to 20/160 in both theeyes and the diagnosis of allergic conjunctivitis withkeratoconus wasreconfirmed. As hewas not comfortablewith the lenses,Sampath was advisedcorneal transplants(penetrating keratoplasty)in both theeyes. He was operatedupon in both eyes ata year’s interval andrecovered well. Hefared much better atschool. This time hescored 70% in the 7 thstandard exams.At Sampath’s last check-up in March 2011, his bestcorrected visual acuity was 20/25, N6@30cm in botheyes. He is now studying in the 10 th standard and hisparents are very grateful to LVPEI.(Informed consent has been obtained from individuals whose photographs and case stories are presented in this report.)Excellence | Equity | Efficiency40

A Multidisciplinary Approach for a Complex CaseMrs Rahula Parvathi, 58, came to the Institute’s GMRVaralakshmi campus in December 2010 with complaintsof sudden decrease in vision and drooping of the leftupper eyelid since 15 days. A local ophthalmologist hadreferred her to us as a case of left oculomotor cranialnerve palsy. She was a known diabetic and was onsystemic treatment, yet, her sugar levels were not undercontrol.On examination, she was found to have a best correctedvisual acuity of 20/20, N6 in the right eye and noperception of light in the left eye. She had total ptosis(drooping of the lid) in the left eye and complete externalophthalmoplegia (total limitation of movements) in herleft eye. However, her extra-ocular movements in theright eye were complete. The corneal sensations in theleft eye were mildly diminished.Mrs Parvathi was diagnosed with Left Orbital ApexSyndrome with the involvement of several cranial nerves.She underwent further investigations to determine theetiology; however, all tests were negative. This conditionis characterized by the abovementioned clinical featuresand can be associated with life-threatening complicationsif not managed properly. Hence, the doctors employeda multispecialty approach, in consultation with an ENTspecialist, adiabetologistand a neuroophthalmologist.During hertreatment, herblood sugar levelswere continuouslymonitored.One monthlater, her visionin the left eyehad improved.Her extra-ocularmovement andptosis startedimproving and there were no obvious adverse effect ofthe medication. At 2 months, her vision had improvedand her ptosis had reduced significantly.Mrs Parvathi’s story highlights the role of accuratediagnosis and a multidisciplinary approach in themanagement of such a case. It is also a hearteningexample of how a good result can be obtained in patientswith optic nerve disease who had no perception of light.41

Vision Rehabilitation CentresThe loss of vision has multidimensional implications on a person’s quality of life — physical (reducedperception), functional (self care, mobility, and daily activities), social (interpersonal relationships), andpsychological (emotional well-being and happiness).The aim of the Vision Rehabilitation Centres is to empower people with incurable vision impairment toenhance their quality of life and live as independent a life as possible through comprehensive rehabilitationintervention. In the year 2010 alone we were instrumental in bringing a change in the lifestyle of about 9000visually challenged persons from all age groups and across all segments of the population through our widerange of services. The key components of intervention include psychological support, low vision care –assessment, training and prescription of devices, special skills training such as independent living skills andmobility, assistive software training for using computers, early intervention for children below 5 years ofage with developmental problems, guidance and placement services for economic independence, self-helpmeetings and peer support programs, advocacy and support services.One of the highlights of the year was the felicitation of two long-term clientsSimon Pushbaraj and Vaishnav Mahender, who represented India against Englandin a One Day International Cricket Series for the Visually Impaired in August2010, winning the series 3 – 0. Both suffer from irreversible vision impairment buthave overcome many obstacles and now hold responsible jobs. Mahender is anexecutive with GE Money Services, while Simon is a school teacher.The two annual events, the Integrated Summer Program and the Fun Camp werethe highlight of our exclusive services for our child clients. The activities organizedin the programs created a platform for them to develop confidence and expressthemselves for better inclusion in the sighted community.The inauguration of a sophisticated Digital Audio Library with the generosity ofthe GE Volunteers – Hyderabad Council on October 29, 2010 is an importantmilestone. The library (with 3 soundproof recording studios) will help preparehigh quality audio index books that can be converted to CDs, tapes, or MP3 files,providing educational opportunities to an estimated 2.4 million children with visualimpairment in Andhra Pradesh.The International Day of Persons with Disabilities was commemorated onDecember 3, 2010 at the centres. An awareness campaign was organized topromote a better understanding of the rights of persons with disabilities and theneed to integrate them in the political, social, economic and cultural fabric of theircommunities.Snapshots of the Integrated Summer Program and the Fun Camp

New Experiences at the Summer Camp“I’m very happy to be here again! Although I have come here for the third time, I feel the excitement of a first-timevisitor. I enjoyed myself thoroughly,” said Gopal, a visually impaired client at the annual Integrated Summer Camp (May26-29, 2010). Gopal attended the camp along with his sighted brother. All the children and their parents echoed thisenthusiasm.Several competitions and cultural events were organized to develop the children’s interests and talents and providethem an opportunity to enjoy new challenging activities. These included dance, arts and crafts, a fashion show and a quiz.The children especially enjoyed interacting with trained dogs, brought by Pedigree MARS International Pvt Ltd. Theywere thrilled to touch and feed the gentle dogs!On another day, there was a lot of excitement in a cookery session as the children learnt to make lemon tea!A visit to GE Energy gave the children and their parents exposure to various career possibilities available for the visuallychallenged.At the concluding program all the participants performed on stage and received gifts, prizes and certificates.A Day of Fun & FrolicThe annual ‘Fun Camp 2010’ for children with visual impairment and their siblings was conducted on November 26,2010 at the water-themed Ocean Park. The large turnout of 275 included visuallychallenged clients, their sighted siblings and parents. All the children underwent anutritional health assessment before being given a warm send-off by a large groupof LVPEI employees, including Chair Dr Gullapalli N Rao.At the camp the children eagerly participated in games, competitions and sports,such as memory games, water games, role enactment, etc and received gifts, whilethe winners and runners-up were also given prizes. Facilitating all the activitieswere LVPEI’s dedicated volunteers – Mr Gopal, Mr Pulla Rao, Mr Praveen,Mr Sheshaiah, Mr Naresh, Ms Nirmala, Mr Siddhartha, Mr Nitheesh, Mr TANMurthy, Mr Rajeev, Mrs Akhila Ravi & Mr Ravi Krishnamurthy, and Mrs NeenaVerghese.Snapshots of the Integrated Summer Program and the Fun CampWatermark on top: The mountain of gifts for the children43

Sight EnhancementNew clientvisitsFollow-upclient visitsTotalRehabilitation of the Blind & Visually ImpairedLow vision devicesprescribedMeera & L B Deshpande Centre, Hyderabad 2444 1492 3936 1692NTPC Centre, Bhubaneswar 225 33 258 191Bob Ohlson Centre, Visakhapatnam 566 151 717 689TOTAL 3235 1676 4911 2572Rehabilitation ServicesSight Enhancement(Low vision rehabilitation)Dr PRK Prasad Centre,HyderabadNTPC Centre,BhubaneswarVisakhapatnamNew client visits 2751 187 900 3838Follow-up client visits 2952 30 248 3230TOTAL 5703 217 1148 7068TotalSERVICE DELIVERYSpecial skills training 1968 120 347 2435Instruction in use of– Assistive devices (computers)1839 21 868 2728– Low vision devicesEnvironmental modification 2152 147 722 3021Educational guidance 792 50 307 1149Vocational guidance 317 14 345 676Supportive guidance 2387 146 176 2709Referral to other services 157 17 239 413Some clients were prescribed more than one device and trained in multiple living skillsA Sound Connection“I know Shanthi madam’s voice well, though I hadn’t mether till today,” Bibu Gangadhar’s statement epitomisesthe life-changing impact audio recordings have on avisually impaired person! Bibu, one of LVPEI’s earliestrehabilitation patients (since 1999) was referring toMs Shanthi Thirumalai, the first volunteer at the VisionRehabilitation Centres after its establishment in 1993.Bibu is a shining example of triumph over disability – abrilliant gold medallist student, today he is a seniorgovernment employee and a proud father.Ms Shanthi continues to record audio lessons for ourrehabilitation clients. Commenting on the anonymousnature of a volunteer’s work, Ms Shanthi said, “We don’teven know the students who use our recordings!”The occasion was the inauguration of a sophisticatedDigital Audio Library at the Dr PRK Prasad Centrefor Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impairedon October 29, 2010. Set up with the support of GEVolunteers – Hyderabad Council, the library has 3soundproof recording studios and helps prepare highquality audio index books that can be converted to CDs,audio tapes, or MP3 files, offering educational access toan estimated 2.4 million children with visual impairmentin Andhra Pradesh.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency44Bibu meets Mrs Shanthi Thirumalai (right)Dr PRK Prasad, after whom the centre is named waspresent on the occasion, as also Mr MariasundaramAntony, Site and Business Leader, GE Energy, HyderabadTechnology Center. Mr Antony was delighted to offerthe gift of knowledge to LVPEI’s clients and said theywould continue to be associated with the rehabilitationcentres.The centre has enabled over 92,000 clients to lead a betterquality of life, through counselling, early intervention,training in life skills, low-vision care, IT training andeducational rehabilitation. Over 10,000 children andyouth have accessed the audio books on school andcollege curriculum, competitive entrance examinationmaterial, general knowledge and children’s stories.

LVPEI’s All-round AchieversSimon Pushbaraj and Vaishnav Mahender are long-termclients of LVPEI’s Dr PRK Prasad Centre for Rehabilitationof the Blind and Visually Impaired. Their associationwith the Institute began in the years 1994 and 1991,respectively. Both of them suffer from irreversible visionimpairment since childhood. Simon lost his vision at theage of 13 due to retinal detachment and Vaishnav at theage of 9 due to acute dry eyes.On their first visits to the Centre, the two boys’ parentshad been counseled and motivated to continue educatingtheir children. They were helped to acquire special skills,taught Braille, and assisted in their academic placement.Their journey with us continued through regular visitsfor training in orientation and mobility, activities of dailyliving, and mastering computer assistive software such asJAWS and Kurzweil for independent functioning.Mrs Hema Naidu presents a laptop to Vaishnav MahenderWith constant support and encouragement Simon andMahender grew into self-reliant, confident adults. Simon, 29, teaches English at Pattikonda Government High Schoolin Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. Mahender, 24, completed his postgraduation from the Tata Institute of SocialSciences, Mumbai, and is employed as an Executive in GE Money Services, Hyderabad. He got married a couple ofmonths ago.Simon and Mahender were not content to conquer the day-to-day challenges;they were motivated to excel in sports too and became avid cricketers. InAugust 2010, they represented India against England in a One-Day InternationalCricket Series for the visually challenged. This form of special cricket is basedon sound, using rattling balls made of synthetic fiber with small iron balls.Bowling is done at the under arm level and the ball is rolled toward the pitch.India won the series 3 – 0.Simon PushbarajSimon and Mahender are role models for other challenged people. To recognizetheir achievements, the Rotary Club of Hyderabad Distrist 3150 and the VisionRehabilitation Centres of the Institute organised a felicitation program on March16, 2011. Simon and Mahender were gifted laptops, through the generosity ofan NRI couple Mr Deepak and Mrs Hema Naidu. Visually challenged childrenamazed the audience with dance performances, ranging from Indian classicalto western foot-tapping items. Speaking of his experiences in overcoming hisvisual handicap, Mahender said that playing cricket had helped him to developconfidence and personality skills and increase his mobility.‘Now She Can Take Care of Herself ’We are very happy that our child Vyshnavi has grown up well after a long journeywith LVPEI. When we first approached the hospital’s Bob Ohlson Centre for SightEnhancement & Rehabilitation for the Blind at LVPEI, Visakhapatnam, they were veryhelpful. They trained our daughter well and there was a lot of improvement. Nowshe can take care of herself. She is studying in the 7 th class in an integrated school andgets good marks, usually first class. In the 6 th class she scored 90% and in the 5 th class95%. She is also very good in co-curricular activities; she is learning Carnatic musicand can also play a keyboard. With LVPEI’s guidance, she can use a computer easily.Using a special software called JAWS, she can surf the internet and do everything anormal person can do on a computer. We are very thankful to the staff of LVPEI fortheir great support to our child.45Activity Report 2010–2011

Eye BankingThe Ramayamma International Eye Bank (RIEB) at LVPEI Hyderabad has set standards of excellence eyebanking since its inception in 1989, evolving into an international resource centre and a model eye bankfor South East Asia. In 1990, for the first time in India RIEB introduced the Hospital Cornea RetrievalProgram (HCRP) for sourcing corneas from deceased patients at hospitals, through trained grief counselling.This effort has eliminated the waiting list for patients requiring donor corneas for transplantation within andoutside the Institute. The model has been successfully replicated in several parts of the country.While cornea harvesting, evaluation, and distribution form the core functions of RIEB, it is also a trainingcentre for various cadres of eye bank professionals within and outside India, and has been active in researchtoo. As an international resource centre, RIEB formulated structured training programs for eye bankingprofessionals for the first time in India in collaboration with SightLife, Seattle, USA. RIEB also set up the corneapreservation Mc Carey Kaufman medium (MK medium) laboratory in 1994, which has been successfullymeeting the demands for MK medium across India and some south East Asian countries.RIEB has also been a resource centre for the Eye Bank Association of India in implementing quality eyebanking standards across India. It also initiated a unique concept, community eye banks at our campuses inBhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam, thus serving 20 million people collaborating with hospitals for HCRP andwith Eye Donation Centres for cornea retrieval. This has enabled it to supply over 17,000 transplantabledonor corneas to surgeons throughout the country. RIEB’s partnership with SightLife USA is a recognition ofits status today as a Centre of Excellence.The first community eye bank of Orissa, drushti daan Eye Bank, was established in July 2007 in the premisesof LVPEI Bhubaneswar with support from Eyesight International, Canada and SightLife, USA, synergizingthe efforts of drushti daan in public awareness, advocacy and networking with LVPEI’s expertise in tissueharvesting, evaluation, preservation and distribution as well as knowledge management and capacity-building.drushti daan, a registered NGO, has been spearheading the eye banking movement in Orissa since March2002, using state-of-the-art equipment and infrastructure, and ensuring continuous improvement throughtraining to execute all aspects of community eye banking. drushti daan Eye Bank aims to be the state’s nodaleye bank with collection centers all over the state and has initiated the Hospital Cornea Retrieval Program inmajor hospitals of the twin cities of Bhubaneswar-Cuttack.At LVPEI Visakhapatnam, Mohsin Eye Bank (a community eye bank) has shown tremendous growth over thepast couple of years. The total number of corneas collected this year was 497. The growth was 94% comparedto the previous year. In recognition Mohsin Eye Bank received a special award from its global partner SightLife.46

CampusCorneas collectedMotivated Volunteered Affiliate centres * TotalRamayamma International Eye Bank, Hyderabad 820 549 1902 3271sdrushti daan Eye Bank, Bhubaneswar 296 44 – 340sMohsin Eye Bank, Visakhapatnam 172 155 170 497TOTAL 1288 748 2072 4108CampusCorneas Collected – 4108Used for training& researchSent to surgeonsoutside LVPEISent to otherLVPEI campusesRamayamma International Eye Bank, Hyderabad 110 388 76drushti daan Eye Bank, Bhubaneswar 189 150 1Mohsin Eye Bank, Visakhapatnam 185 118 194sCommunity eye banks on our campus*RIEB affiliate centres at Nidadavolu, Tanuku, Suryapet & Madanapalle and other eye collection centersNational Eye Donation FortnightThe 25 th National Eye Donation Fortnight was observedat LVPEI’s Hyderabad and Bhubaneswar campusesfrom August 25 - September 8, 2010. At Hyderabad,counsellors created awareness at the city’s multispecialtyhospitals about the Hospital Cornea Retrieval Program(HCRP) for eye donation and an inspired 200 peoplepledged their eyes.On September 6, 2010 the eye bank staff made apresentation on eye donation to the 1990 Batch of PoliceBrothers Meet, where 500 policemen had organized afelicitation program for the Commissioner of Police ofHyderabad, Mr A K Khan.At a girls’ college 120 NCC candidates attended anawareness talk. A live phone-in program was organisedto enable viewers to voice their questions. Eye donationmessages were shown on local cable channels and asslideshows at several theatres.The drushti daan eye bank at Bhubaneswar campusorganized awareness talks, eye check-up camps,workshops and an interschool painting competition, inwhich 52 children from 6 schools participated.Other Awareness ActivitiesTalks on eye donation for employees of Satyam VentureEngineering Services. January 5, 2011• Talks to employees of GE business processes as partof CSR initiatives, coordinated by NASSCOM.January 21, 2011• Talks to employees of South Central Railwaytelephone exchange. January 26, 2011Governor Pledges EyesOn July 2, 2010, Governor of Andhra Pradesh Mr ESLNarasimhan and his wife Mrs Vimala Narasimhan signedeye donation pledges at the Institute. Mr Narasimhan saidit was a pity that even educated people did not know muchabout eye donation. If they knew that it was a very simpleprocedure with nodisfigurement, theywould willingly pledgetheir eyes to give sightto a visually impairedperson.Activity Report 2010–2011

Initiation of Eye Donation Activityat Partner Hospitals of LVPEIOn January 24 RIEB organised a meeting with the LionsEye hospitals in Greater Hyderabad for a concertedeffort towards eye donation awareness and mobilizationof resources for cornea retrieval. Fourteen membersfrom different hospitals attended the meeting. The groupdiscussed strategies for motivating the public and howtheir respective hospitals could undertake this activity.SightLife Achievement Award 2010 for all its partners given at theannual meeting held in Jaipur in January 2011Training Programs in Partnership with SightLife, Seattle, USAEye bank managementRamayamma International Eye Bank (RIEB) hosted the firstof an ongoing series of workshops for eye care managerssupported by SightLife, USA from April 20-22, 2010. Theeight participants represented eye bank organizationsthat partner with SightLife with a commitment to rapidlygrow operations over the next three to five years, eachproviding 1000-2000 corneas per year for transplantationultimately. The workshop series aims to disseminateworld-wide best practices in eye bank management andeye donation, as well as interactively determine barriersand solutions to facilitate rapid growth.Eye donation counsellorsIn May 2010, RIEB, in partnership with SightLife launcheda pilot training program for Eye Donation Counsellors(EDCs). The program included lectures, observation ofeye bank operations and cornea recovery. The traineesalso participated in interactive sessions with seniorEDCs and technicians to evolve effective ways of buildingsupport systems in hospitals to facilitate eye donation.Assessors for eye bank accreditationIn August 2010, a 5-day workshop was conducted jointlyby Eye Bank Association of India & SightLife to trainassessors in the accreditation procedures of eye banks.RIEB formed the base and underwent a mock inspectionto train the assessors in various categories of inspectionprocedures.We are Grateful to our Affiliates who Contributed to the Cornea CollectionAkbar Eye Hospital, Anantapur (6); Amar Hospital, Mahabubnagar (2);Badam Balakrishna Eye Bank, Kakinada (56); Chiranjeevi Eye Bank,Hyderabad (11); Dhanvantari Eye Donation Center, Tenali (155);District Blindness Control Society, Nalgonda (2); District Hospital,Janagaon (20); Govt. General Hospital, Guntur (24); District Hospital(Red Cross Eye Bank) (24); District Hospital, Nandyal (8); JanananandaEye bank, Bhimavaram (16); Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences,Narketpally (16); Lions Club of Bejjanki, Karimnagar (6); Lions Club ofCherial, Cherial (12); Lions Club of Hanamkonda, Warangal (2); LionsClub of Karimnagar, Karimnagar (292); Lions Club of Kesamudram,Kesamudram (6); Lions Club of Korutla, Korutla (2); Lions Club ofMahabubabad, Mahabubabad (28); Lions Club of Orugallu, Warangal(10); Lions Club of Palakol, Palakol (44); Lions Club of Suryapet EyeHospital, Suryapet (66); Lions Club of Sircilla, Sircilla (6); Lions Club ofThorrur, Thorrur (4); Lions Club of Vemulavada, Vemulavada (6); LionsDiamond Club Nizamabad, Nizamabad (2); Lions Eye Hospital, Bodhan(8); Lions Eye Hospital, Nizamabad (2); Mamatha Eye Bank, Khammam(4); M Ramreddy Lions Eye Hospital, Mahabubnagar (2); Modern EyeHospital, Nellore (360); Mohsin Eye Bank, Visakhapatnam (27); MVREye Center, Tanuku (17); Nayana Eye Care, Nandyal (6); Pavani EyeHospital, Jagityal (10); Pushpagiri Eye Institute, Secunderabad (27); RajivGandhi Superspecialty Hospital, Raichur (8); Regional Eye Hospital,Warangal (74); Regional Eye Hospital, Kurnool (31); Rotary Club ofVuyyur, Vuyyur (8); Sadasaya Foundation, Godavarikhani (2); SadhuramEye Hospital, Hyderabad (27); Shri KVB Reddy IRCS Eye Bank, Kurnool(28); Siloam Eye Hospital, Madanapalle (4); Smt. Gomabai Netralaya,Neemuch (8); Smt. Rajeswari Ramakrishnan Lions Eye Hospital,Nidadavole (295); Sneha Seva Samiti, Proddutur (36); Sreelatha ModernEye Hospital, Chittoor (4); Sri Y Balarama Murthy Konaseema EyeBank, Ambajipet (8); Sudarsani Eye Hospital, Guntur (18); SukhabhogiSeva Samiti, Mancherial (2); Surya Swatchanda Seva Trust, Mahabubabad(6); SVRR Govt. General Hospital, Tirupati (14); The Khammam EyeBank, Khammam (8); Yanam Eye Bank, Yanam (32)Total eyes/corneas received from Eye Donation Centresin Andhra Pradesh: 1902Excellence | Equity | Efficiency48

Mc Carey Kaufman Medium for Corneal PreservationThe Ramayamma International Eye Bank, LVPEI, Hyderabad, produced 24,158 vials of the Mc CareyKaufman (MK) medium during the year. We supplied 23,180 vials of the MK medium to 241 national eyebanks and 4 international eye banks.NationalAgartala, Agra, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Aligarh, Ambala, Anand, Angamally, Asansol, Bagalkot, Bengaluru, Bareilly,Basirhat, Bathinda, Bhavnagar, Bhimavaram, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Chitrakoot, Coimbatore,Dinazpur, Dahod, Dehradun, Dibrugarh, Durgapur, Erode, Gannavaram, Gobrapota, Gorakhpur, Gulbarga,Guntur, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Haldia, Hissar, Hospet, Hubli, Hyderabad, Indore, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jalandhar,Jalgaon, Jalna, Jamshedpur, Jhagadia, Jodhpur, Jorhat, Kakinada, Kanpur, Karad, Karimnagar, Karnal, Katwa, Kolar,Kolhapur, Kolkata, Kottayam, Kozhikode, Kurnool, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madanapalle, Madurai, Manipal, Meerut,Miraj, Mirzapur, Moradabad, Mumbai, Mysore, Nagercoil, Nagpur, Nalgonda, Narayangaon, Narketpally, Nashik,Navasari, Neemuch, Nellore, New Delhi, Nidadavole, Noida, Palakkad, Palakol, Pammal, Panaji, Panvel, Patiala,Patna, Perintalmana, Pondicherry, Port Blair, Proddatur, Pune, Raichur, Raiganj, Raipur, Rajkot, Ranchi, Rattanpura,Repalle, Rohtak, Salem, Sangli, Serampore, Sevagram, Shapur, Shimoga, Siliguri, Sirohi, Sirsa, Sohana, Solapur,Sriganganagar, Surat, Suryapet, Tanuku, Tenali, Thuba, Tirunelveli, Tirupati, Tiruchirapalli, Thiruvananthapuram,Udaipur, Udupi, Ujjain, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vellore, Veraval, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Vuyyur,Warangal, YanamProduct DevelopmentInternationalDhaka, Bangladesh; Yangon, Myanmar; Nairobi, Kenya; Kathmandu, Nepal 49Activity Report 2010–2011

Community Eye Health & OutreachInternational Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye careICARE or the International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye care is the public health division of L V Prasad EyeInstitute. LVPEI’s strategy for eliminating avoidable blindness is summed up with its motto “Excellence, Equity andEfficiency” and has the following key components: permanent eye care infrastructure in underserved rural remoteareas, capacity building (from the community to eye specialists), and training and research (public health, basic and clinicalresearch). ICARE was established in 1998 with the support of CBM, Germany (formerly Christoffel Blindenmission)and Sightsavers, UK, with subsequent support from Operation Eyesight Universal, Canada. The development of theLVPEI Eye Health Pyramidal model was based on scientific evidence found from the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study(APEDS), a landmark epidemiological study conducted by LVPEI in both rural and urban locations from 1996-2000.The Institute’s rural health coverage begins at the grassroots level with village volunteers (known as Vision HealthGuardians, serving approximately 5000 people each), who are linked to a primary eye care Vision Centre (approximately10 Vision Health Guardians linked to a Vision Centre), staffed by a local Vision Technician (trained for a year) andcovering a population unit of 50,000. Preliminary eye screening is done at the Vision Centre (VC). Ten VCs are linkedto a secondary care Service Centre (each serving about half a million population). These three tiers of service togetherconstitute a Village Vision Complex.Currently, we have 72 Vision Centres (to be ramped up to 125 by the year 2012), 9 secondary satellite centres (10 by2012), 9 partner centres linked to 3 tertiary centres (Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada) and a Centre ofExcellence at Hyderabad. In the 12 years since its inception, through its network of secondary and primary eye carecentres, ICARE has reached 2,204,647 people and performed 198,461 surgeries to eliminate avoidable blindness. Nearly46-49% of them were women, bridging the gender inequality gap in accessing eye care services.The highlights of 2010-2011 are the launch of two major epidemiological projects – LVP GLEAMS (L V Prasad GlaucomaEpidemiology Molecular Genomics) study and a ten-year follow-up study of the cohort of APEDS with technicalcollaboration with the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), UK. In operational research, Rapid Assessment ofVisual Impairment (RAVI) studies have been conducted in several locations in Andhra Pradesh. Another operationaldelivery project is empowerment of rural women as Vision Health Guardians (VHG) as vision, diabetes and hypertensioneducators in the Sight to Resight VHG project. As community eye health care models are undergoing a paradigm shiftwith a horizontal approach, we initiated the Community Linked Initiative Project (CLIP) to eliminate avoidable blindnessin Jainath mandal of Adilabad district with support from Operation Eyesight Universal, Canada.In the domain of childhood blindness, theNimmagadda Prasad – LVPEI Children’sEye Health Initiative has reached outto a total of 324,664 children, offeringa better quality of life through eye careservices. Of these 102,277 childrenreceived outpatient and surgical servicesacross the LVPEI network. In addition,9162 children received surgical treatmentduring the period free of cost.Other focus areas of ICARE are thedevelopment of human resourceswith training programs for eye careprofessionals at all levels, capacity buildingof institutions through accompanimentprograms, research and advocacy. Amongthe education programs conductedby ICARE are Master’s in CommunityEye Health, Diploma in CommunityEye Health, Postgraduate Diploma inHospital Management, Certificate coursein Program Management & Evaluation,Certificate course in ComprehensiveCommunity Eye Care & Rehabilitationof Visually Impaired, Vision TechniciansCourse and training of Vision Guardians.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency50A day-old baby at Ada village

News12 th Anniversary of ICAREThe 12 th anniversary of the International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye care (ICARE) was celebrated onDecember 17, 2010. A Partners and Satellite Centre Workshop was held to mark the occasion; the theme was “DiabeticRetinopathy — The Emerging Challenge”. Ophthalmologists and administrators from 17 partner and satellites centresattended the workshop.World Sight Day CommemoratedICARE commemorated World Sight Day from October 14-21,2010 with events across its entire network; Dr Padmaja K Raniled the Hyderabad area program. A large rally was organized inHyderabad city by the Sight for Kids (SFK) Greater Hyderabadteam, supported by Johnson & Johnson, Lions Club InternationalFoundation (LCIF) and Lions Eye Hospitals of Greater Hyderabad.The SFK program addresses visual impairment and promotes eyehealth awareness among schoolchildren between 5 and 9 years ofage. The participants included schoolchildren (SFK beneficiaries),Vision Technicians and optometry students of Ranga Reddy LionsEye Hospital.A budding Nayana Vanam at AdilabadThe SFK partner eye hospitals conducted communityscreening programs in slums and other locations,screening several hundred people. Awarenessmeetings were organized at several places, includingschools and colleges, and talks given on theprevention and treatment of avoidable blindness.Free spectacles were distributed to those identifiedwith refractive errors.A new concept ‘Nayana Vanam’ (Vision Garden)was inaugurated at the secondary care SeshannaChennawar Eye Centre in Adilabad district. Allthe vegetables and fruits planted in the garden arebeneficial for the eyes. A diabetic screening programwas conducted for the high risk population at Adavillage.Kuchukalla Ramachandra Reddy Eye Centre,Thoodukurthy, LVPEI’s second satellite centreat Mahabubnagar district, held a public meeting at An awareness meeting being conducted in a schoolManthati village.The GMR Varalakshmi Campus, Visakhapatnam organized a community screening program where 110 people werescreened, 10 were prescribed spectacles and 20 identified with cataract were referred to LVPEI.51Activity Report 2010–2011

World Diabetes DayWorld Diabetes Day was commemoratedon November 14, 2010 at Ongole, as part ofLVPEI’s ongoing program in Prakasam district,supported by the World Diabetes Foundation.The event was inaugurated by Dr Devanand,former Prakasam District Collector. Amongthose who participated were Collector Mr KKantilal Dhande, District Medical Health OfficerDr K Sudhakar Babu and Dr Keshav, cardiologist.Team leaders were identified in 80 villages alongwith accredited social health activists (ASHA).The World Diabetes Day meetingAn ASHA workers training programAn orientation workshop was organized for the groupleaders and ASHA for capacity building so that they cantake care of their health to achieve a better quality of life.They were also trained in leading diabetic peer groupactivities in the villages. A blood glucose monitor anddigital blood pressure monitor were provided to eachvillage and ASHA will be trained to do an assessmentfor the villagers at a nominal charge. This activity willhelp ASHA to generate some revenue to sustain theirinterest in the program. Over 250 people attended theprogram.World Diabetes Foundation Team VisitMs Kristine Dandanell Garn, Coordinator, WorldDiabetes Foundation, visited Prakasam district fromJanuary 8-9, 2011 to assess the progress of the DiabeticPrevention and Capacity Building Program in the district.She saw the ASHA screening program, awarenessprograms, diabetic identification and enrollmentprogram, Singarayakonda and P Padu Vision Centre,and Karamchedu and Kandukuru Service Centres in thedistrict. She also visited Primary Health Centres, andmet cardiologists and diabetologists trained throughthe program, seeing first-hand the successful networkestablished by the program. On January 11, 2011, shevisited ICARE to appreciate the diverse and extensivework by LVPEI in community health and get acquaintedwith the projects implemented in underserved ruralareas.Village Vision ComplexPrimary Eye Care – Vision Centres8 Vision Centres DedicatedThis year 8 new Vision Centres (VC) were establishedand dedicated in the East Godavari, Visakhapatnam, andKhammam districts of Andhra Pradesh. Fully equippedwith the requisite infrastructure and trained VisionTechnicians, they bring up the total to 72.One Vision Centre was inaugurated in Ravulapalemvillage on August 7, 2010 attached to the ParamahansaYogananda Netralaya in Rajahmundry, East Godavaridistrict. The VC is supported by Fullerton India CreditCompany Limited, Mumbai, LVPEI is a technical partnerand Paramahansa Yogananda Netralaya the implementingpartner. It is expected to serve a population of 76,894 in11 villages of Ravulapalem mandal.The first 2 VCs under LVPEI’s GMR Varalakshmi campusin Visakhapatnam were inaugurated on December 13,2010. Located at Chodavaram and Shrungavarapukota,these are the first of 30 VCs to be set up during 2010-2013 — all supported by the Lavelle Fund for the Blind,Inc., USA.Five VCs attached to the Institute’s secondary careSwarna Bharat Eye Centre at Paloncha in Khammamdistrict were inaugurated at Yellandu, Kallur, Manuguru,Ashwapuram and Dammapet between February 28 andMarch 3, 2011. All the VCs attached to this ServiceCentre are supported by the Latter-day Saint Charities,USA.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency52

Service DeliveryThe services at primary care Vision Centres are offered entirely free of cost. A total of 124,123 people were screenedof which 44,363 were prescribed spectacles for refractive errors.PerformanceScreeningSpectaclesprescribed*Spectaclesdispensed*Referred toService CentreRURAL (70)Bhainsa, Kubeer, Nandipet, Navipet, Kallur, Lokeshwaram& Tannur(Bhosle Gopal Rao Patel Eye Centre, Mudhol)Utnoor, Boath, Jainath, Bela, Narnoor, Jainoor, Jannaram,Medarpet, Talamadugu, Gudihathnoor, Echoda & Indervelly(Seshanna Chennawar Eye Centre, Adilabad)Wanaparthy, Achampet, Nagarkurnool, Kothakota, Kollapur,Ghanapuram, Bijnapally, Telkapally, Kalwakurthy, Lingala& Amangal(Kuchukulla Ramachandra Reddy Eye Centre,Thoodukurthy)Parchuru, Panguluru, Pedanandipadu, Yeddanapudi, Marturu,Ballikuruva, Epurupalem, Chinnaganjam, Naguluppalapadu& Vetapalem(Venkata Lakshmi Eye Centre, Karamchedu)Tripuranthakam, Yerragondapalem, Dornala, Cumbum,Bestavaripeta, Giddalur, Podili, Darsi, Kurichedu& Chimakurthi(Sudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Eye Centre, Markapuram)Tangutur, Kondapi, Lingasamudram, Chandrasekharapuram,Singarayakonda, Pamuru, Ulavapadu, Medarmet,Santhanuthalapadu & Kothapatnam(Sudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Eye Centre, Kandukuru)Nimmanapalle & B Kothakota(Siloam Eye Centre, Madanapalle)Ravulapalem (Paramahansa Yogananda Netralaya,Rajahmundry, East Godavari) Launched August 7, 2010Chodavaram & Shrungavarapukota(L V Prasad Eye Institute, Visakhapatnam)Launched December 13, 2010Yellandu, Kallur, Manuguru, Ashwapuram & Dammapet(Nava Bharat Eye Centre, Paloncha, Khammam)Launched February 28, 2011URBAN (2)LVPEI-VST Screening Centre, Ramnagar andVision Screening Centre, Kismatpur19,991 8649 7453 323421,405 6706 6224 375728,121 9293 6966 671315,247 6690 4310 364216,136 5372 3801 398412,689 3756 2684 2321727 143 42 2231687 469 337 3422128 666 332 770974 433 238 2985018 2186 1233 1320TOTAL 124,123 44,363 33,620 26,604*Spectacles also sold to patients referred by Service Centres; includes non-prescription spectacles like sunglasses & photochromatic glasses.Note: The affiliate Service/Tertiary Centres within bracketsThe Vision Technicians, whomanage the Vision Centres intheir new uniformsActivity Report 2010–2011

The Rural NetworkSecondary Eye Care – Satellite and Partner CentresAnniversaries of Satellite Centres• The 8 th anniversary of Venkata Lakshmi Eye Centre,Karamchedu (3 rd satellite) was celebrated on June 7,2010.• The 5 th anniversary of Seshanna Chennawar EyeCentre, Adilabad (4 th satellite) was celebrated onJune 9, 2010.• The Swarna Bharat Eye Centre at Nellore (6 thsatellite) celebrated its 3 rd anniversary on July 1, 2010.• The Kuchukalla Ramachandra Reddy Eye Centreat Thoodukurthy (2 nd satellite) celebrated its 12 thanniversary on October 24, 2010. Sri KuchukullaRameshwar Reddy (donor), Sri Kotaiah (MPP), SriNarsimha Reddy (Village Sarpanch), vision guardians,and LVPEI staff Dr Padmaja K Rani, Mr Babu Rao, MrYousuf Arafath, Ms E S Manjula, Ms Vanitha Ganesh,Ms Jayanthi Sagar and employees of the centreparticipated in the program.• The 14 th anniversary of Bhosle Gopal Rao Patel EyeCentre at Mudhol, LVPEI’s very first satellite, wascelebrated on December 20, 2010. The centre hasserved a population of 500,000 so far.• The 3 rd anniversary of Sudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi EyeCentre, Markapuram (7 th satellite) on January 3, 2011saw enthusiastic participation by the MarkapuramVillage Vision Complex team, the local community,press members and leading private medicalpractitioners. Dr Phanindra spoke about the centre’strack record over the past 3 years. Dr Padmaja KRani spoke about preventive eye health services andLVPEI’s goals for its 25 th year – 2012.• The 2 nd anniversary of Sudhakar & Sreekanth RaviEye Centre, Kandukuru, the 8 th satellite of LVPEI, wascelebrated on February 1, 2011.• The 4 th anniversary of Siloam Eye Centre inMadanapally, Chittoor district (5 th satellite) wascelebrated on March 11, 2011.• The 10 th anniversary of St Gregorious BalagramEye Hospital in Yacharam, Ranga Reddy district wascelebrated on March 13, 2011.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency54

Service DeliveryDuring the year 243,650 people were seen at our secondary care centres.Rural Satellite & Partner CentresOutpatient VisitsSurgeriesPaying Non-paying Paying Non-payingSATELLITE CENTRESBhosle Gopal Rao Patel Eye Centre, Mudhol, Adilabad 12,998 6527 1212 1278Kuchukulla Ramachandra Reddy Eye CentreThoodukurthy, Mahabubnagar7811 3784 506 1062Seshanna Chennawar Eye CentreNational Highway Road, Adilabad7828 5427 417 980Siloam Eye Centre, Madanapalle, Chittoor 10,670 1840 595 490Venkata Lakshmi Eye Centre, Karamchedu, Prakasam 4829 4916 219 828Swarna Bharat Eye Centre, Venkatachalam, Nellore 983 4680 76 547Sudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Eye CentreMarkapuram, Prakasam6609 3656 604 833Sudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Eye CentreKandukuru, Prakasam3284 2881 83 346*Nava Bharat Eye Centre, Paloncha, Khammam 965 558 23 45PARTNER CENTRESMullapudi Venkatarayudu Eye CentreTanuku, West Godavari12,692 1715 1095 282Smt. Rajeshwari Ramakrishnan Lions Eye HospitalNidadavole, West Godavari15,009 12,169 921 2893St. Gregorius Balagram Eye HospitalYacharam, Ranga Reddy5412 1267 156 380Lions Club of Suryapet Eye HospitalSuryapet, Nalgonda2963 5802 265 247The Rotary Eye Hospital, Proddatur, Kadapa 10,305 3471 1291 1571Paramahansa Yogananda NetralayaVemagiri, Rajahmundry13,285 3451 785 819URBAN PARTNER CENTRES IN HYDERABADM S Reddy Lions Eye Hospital, Moula Ali 9033 11,743 467 2531Kishore Chand Chordia Eye Centre, Begum Bazaar 6139 19,874 348 2252Balanagar Lions Eye Hospital, Balanagar 12,335 6739 580 1347TOTAL 143,150 100,500 9643 18,731Total outpatient visits: 243,650 41% freeTotal surgeries: 28,374 66% free*Inaugurated February19, 201114 th anniversary of Bhosle Gopal Rao PatelEye Centre, Mudhol, Adilabad – the centre’ssupporter Mr Narayana Patel cuts the cakeSeniormost employee at the Thoodukurthy centre,Mrs D Satyamma cuts the anniversary cake55Mr Ramu, patient care assistant receives thebest employee award from Dr Vivek Warkard,Dr Phanindra and Dr Padmaja K RaniActivity Report 2010–2011

Community Eye CareService DeliveryCommunity SurveysHOUSELVPEIsatellitesVisakhapatnamcampusVijayawadacampusSight toResightWDF IITOTALSlums/villages surveyed - 510 44 1 3 540 1098Population covered by door todoor surveys- 430,693 38,966 2986 28,658 32,633 533,936Identified with eye problems &referred for further examination- 83,295 4018 438 7732 33,633 129,116Community ScreeningPrograms organized89 357 22 - - - 468People screened 5176 24,094 2582 - - - 31,852Prescribed spectacles 1451 7133 517 - - - 9101Referred to base hospital 1001 8367 931 - - - 10,299School Screening Programs#HOUSE#LVPEIsatellites#Visakhapatnamcampus#VijayawadacampusSighttoResightSightfor KidsTOTALTeachers trained 13 1010 56 1 - 125 1205Schools covered 13 937 47 1 - 100 1098Children screened 3657 86,462 16,067 164 - 19,238 125,588Identified with eye problems 501 6572 420 7 - 1180 8680Prescribed spectacles 18 1428 455 3 - 83 1987Anganwadi Screeningfor children0-5 years of agePrograms organized - 135 - 1 - 2 138Children screened - 4207 - 25 - 19 4251Identified with eye problems - 226 - 7 - - 233Referred to base hospital - 173 - 7 - - 180HOUSE: Hyderabad Outreach Urban Slums Eye-care ProgramSatellites: Satellite Centres of LVPEI in Adilabad, Mahabubnagar, Prakasam, Nellore and Chittoor districtsSight to Resight: Vision Health Guardians training program supported by Resight, USASight for Kids: Primary schoolchildren’s program supported by Lions Club International Foundation and Johnson & Johnson Ltd.WDF II: Capacity building program to address diabetes & diabetic retinopathy#Children’s eye care service delivery – school & anganwadi (creche) screenings supported by Nimmagadda FoundationA school screening programExcellence | Equity | Efficiency56A little boy at Adilabad is happy to undergo a check-up on World Sight Day

‘A Meaningful Learning Experience’Neha Mehta, a dual degree MBA and Masters in PublicHealth student at the University of California at Berkeley,USA spent 6 weeks interning at LVPEI's InternationalCentre for Advancement of Rural Eye care (ICARE) lastsummer. Her preceptor was S Sheeladevi, AssociatePublic Health Specialist. An excerpt from an interviewwith Neha:"My internship focused on one of L V Prasad's majorcommunity outreach initiatives to address childhoodblindness – the Nimmagadda Prasad – LVPEI Children'sEye Health Initiative that aims at preventing childhoodblindness so that ‘No child in Andhra Pradesh is needlesslyblind or visually impaired by the year 2020’. This initiativewas launched on July 7, 2007 with 10 years of assuredfunding from the Nimmagadda Foundation, and providesfree primary and secondary eye healthcare, diagnosis andtreatment services, including glasses, to children aged0-15 years.My internship was structured to offer a wellroundedexperience with opportunities for growthand learning. Rotatingbetween various patientcare and administrativedepartments at thehospital, and thecommunity health projectshelped me develop abroad understanding of theInstitute's structure, strategyand operations. My projectwork involved rich, eye-openingvisits to rural villages and towns in Andhra Pradesh whereI conducted 45 community field interviews to determinestakeholder perceptions, challenges and ways tostrengthen this initiative. I also quantitatively assessed thecurrent gap in outreach services for the child populationin these geographical areas. I interviewed the Institute'semployees across all levels, including key leadership,external advisors and contacts at partner organizations,which allowed me to gain a good understanding of LVP'sorganizational structure, culture and context within thelarger healthcare network.Given my interest in pediatric public health management,I thoroughly enjoyed my first-hand experience in anIndian rural health setting, as well as the opportunityto develop community health program evaluation andanalysis skills. I am extremely grateful to everyone whohelped make this a valuable and meaningful learningexperience. I look forward to returning to India to workin pediatric community healthcare after completing myMBA and MPH.”Neha MehtaHaas School of Business and School of Public HealthUniversity of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USASchoolchildren at ICARE, Kismatpur clinic for vision screening as part of the Nimmagadda Prasad – LVPEI program57Activity Report 2010–2011

Operations Research at ICAREProject Title Investigators Supported by Project UpdateEPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIESAndhra Pradesh EyeDisease Study Follow up(APEDS-3)March 2011 to February2013L V Prasad GlaucomaEpidemiological andMolecular Genomics Study(LVP GLEAMS )September 2010 toDecember 2012Rapid Assessment of VisualImpairment (RAVI) projectin Vijayawada, KrishnadistrictDecember 2010 to January2011Rapid Assessment of VisualImpairment (RAVI) projectin Paloncha, KhammandistrictFebruary to March 2011LVPEI:Dr Rohit KhannaDr Padmaja K RaniDr Giridhar PydaMr Srinivas MarmamulaDr Vilas KovaiICEH: Dr Clare GilbertDr GVS MurthyDr G Chandra SekharMr Uday KumarMr Ganesh BabuDr Rohit KhannaDr Harsha BL RaoDr Padmaja K RaniLVPEI andInternationalCentre for EyeHealth (ICEH),London Schoolof Hygiene andTropical Medicine, *UK161 patients examined, field interviews completedin 3 villagesLVPEI Subjects screened: 612Glaucoma prevalence till date: 9.3%Mr Srinivas Marmamula LVPEI From a total sample of 2650 individuals >= 40years, 2455 individuals were examined (responserate 93%). Preliminary analysis revealed anunadjusted blindness (= 40years, 2486 individuals were examined (responserate 94%). Further analysis is being done.DIABETIC RETINOPATHYCapacity building programto address diabetes anddiabetic retinopathy inPrakasam district(September 2008to August 2013)Dr Ajit Babu MajjiMs S SheeladeviWorld DiabetesFoundation,DenmarkCapacity BuildingCommunity health workers: 155Hospital facilities upgraded: 15Service deliveryDiabetic patients registered: 32, 633Diabetic patients examined at the eye centre: 2611*Technical supportTop & right: RAVI project in Paloncha,Khammam districtFar right: The Glaucoma Epidemiologyand Molecular Genomics Study(GLEAMS) group in PedanandipaduExcellence | Equity | Efficiency58

CHILDHOOD BLINDNESSNimmagadda Prasad– LVPEI Children’s EyeHealth InitiativeJuly 2007 to June 2020Ms Korani JyothiMs S SheeladeviMr Jachin D WilliamsNimmagaddaFoundation, IndiaSchools covered: 998Teachers trained: 1080Children screened: 106,350Referred for detailed eye examination: 7500Outpatients screened: 28,624Surgeries performed: 2972Spectacles prescribed & dispensed: 44010-5 years children’s screeningScreening programs: 136Anganwadi teachers trained: 136Anganwadi schoolchildren screened: 4232Identified with eye problems: 233Sight for Kids(1 Year – Based on allocationof funds by Johnson& Johnson/Lions ClubInternational Foundation)Mr Jachin D WilliamsMs Korani JyothiMr M VeeruLions ClubsInternationalFoundation (LCIF),USASchools screened: 100Teachers trained: 125Children screened: 19,238Referred for detailed eye examination: 1180Surgeries performed: 7Spectacles prescribed & dispensed: 83EMPOWERING RURAL COMMUNITIESSight to Resight — VisionHealth Guardian ProjectSeptember 2010 to October2011Community Linkage inIntegrating eye care withPrimary health (CLIP)ProjectMarch 2011 to February2014Dr Padmaja K RaniDr Suresh KurugantiMs S SheeladeviMr Jachin D WilliamsMr Anil K ReddyDr Suresh KurugantiDr Padmaja K RaniMr Daniel FranklinMr Jachin D WilliamsMr Pradeep KumarResight Funds Vision Health Guardians trained: 20Households surveyed: 7523Vision screening: 28,658At high risk for diabetes: 453Known cases of diabetes identified: 265Hypertension screening: 6826Hypertension identified: 639Known hypertension: 580Eye problems: 7732Spectacles dispensed: 442Cataract surgeries done: 46OperationEyesight Universal(India)Planning and implementation phase. The aim isto totally eliminate avoidable blindness in Jainathmandal of Adilabad district through communitylinkagesTeachers of Jubilee Public School undergo trainingA village CLIP (Community Linkage in Integratingeye care with Primary health) meeting

Accompaniment ProgramInternationalLVPEI is providing capacity building support to Islamia Eye Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh and the University ofNairobi Eye Hospital, Kenya to develop them as models for their regions. The following activities were undertakenduring the year:• After a needs assessment visit, both centres finalised a plan of action in the areas of infrastructuralimprovement, human resource development and outreach activities.• A training calendar based on their requirements was made; ophthalmology faculty and residents from thecentres will undergo training in various subspecialties to build and strengthen their subspecialty services.• Standard operating practices and patient education material developed at LVPEI was shared with IslamiaHospital.• LVPEI faculty visited the two facilities to assist in the further development of the subspecialty clinics.The project is supported by the Capacity Building Grant Fund (CBGF) received from the International Agency for thePrevention of Blindness (IAPB).NationalOperation Eyesight UniversalLVPEI continued to assist all the Operation Eyesight Universal (OEU) partner hospitals in India through training andmentoring during the year, with clinical and non-clinical teams making regular developmental visits to the partner centresalong with the OE team. This year, the following centres were visited and evaluated:• Siliguri Greater Lions Eye Hospital, Siliguri, West Bengal• Indore Eye Hospital, Indore, Madhya Pradesh• Thakur Sitaram Seva Kendra, Malda, West Bengal• Little Flower Eye Hospital, Angamaly, KeralaThe achievements for the OEU – LVPEI network for the year are:Total number of patients examined: 484,068Total number of surgeries performed: 53,435Centre for Community OphthalmologyLVPEI is partnering with Seva Foundation, USA to provide eye care to the blind and visually impaired in underservedareas, with support from the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). LVPEI (along with 8 otherinstitutes globally) is part of the Centre for Community Ophthalmology (CCO) network, which is Seva’s Clinton GlobalInitiative So One Million Eyes See Again, wherein 100 hospitals will perform an additional 1 million surgeries every yearby 2015. Existing facilities will be expanded and transformed into efficient self-sustaining centres, while new ones willbe developed.Under this initiative, LVPEI partnered with several eye hospitals to help develop their centres. Initial needs assessmentsurveys were carried out at the following centres:1. Bellampally Lions Eye Hospital, Bellampally, Andhra Pradesh2. Sarat Laser and Eye Centre, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh3. Chandraprabha Eye Hospital, Jorhat, Assam4. Tejpur Eye Hospital, Tejpur, Assam5. C L Gupta Eye Institute, Moradabad, Uttar PradeshExcellence | Equity | Efficiency60

Rotary Mahanagar Netralaya, KolkataIn technical collaboration with LVPEI, an advanced secondary level eye care facility launched its services at Beliaghatain Kolkata, West Bengal from February 22, 2011. The new facility is committed to providing excellent and equitableeye care services to all irrespective of their socioeonocomic status as per the LVPEI model. LVPEI assisted the centrein infrastructural development, training of clinical and non-clinical teams, and implementation of standard operatingprocedures.Seeing is BelievingAs part of its ‘Seeing is Believing’ project, Standard Chartered Bank and LVPEI set up 40 Vision Centres over a periodof 3 years. An evaluation of the Vision Centres of Venu Eye Institute was conducted in November 2010. The Phase IIIworkshop was conducted by Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), UK in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from January 10-11, 2011to review the collective achievements of various projects (including issues of sustainability) supported by SCB under theSeeing is Believing project. Kovai Vilas presented the evaluation results of the 40 Vision Centres program, implementedunder the project in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu of India during 2008 – 2010.Other ActivitiesSituational analysis for the development of a comprehensive eye care facility was carried out in the following regions:• The north eastern states of India — Sikkim and Assam• Eastern Uttar Pradesh• UttarakhandNeeds assessment visits were done for the following centres:• Lions tertiary eye care facility at Kolkata• Lions tertiary eye care facility at Bangalore• Rotary Eye Hospital, Udhampur, Jammu & Kashmir• Velmegna Good News Society, Bidar, Karnataka• Pushpak Health Care Services, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra61Activity Report 2010–2011

National Collaborating CentresIndia Partners: Tertiary Centres¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬Suryodaya Eye Centre, Kolkata, West BengalC L Gupta Eye Institute, Moradabad, Uttar PradeshChandra Prabha Eye Hospital, Jorhat, AssamMGM Eye Institute, Raipur, ChattisgarhAlakh Nayan Mandir Eye Institute, Udaipur, RajasthanLittle Flower Eye Hospital, Angamally, KeralaSilguri Greater Lions Eye Hospital, Siliguri, West BengalIndore Eye Hospital, Indore, Madhya PradeshIndia Partners: Secondary CentresLVPEI - OEU collaborating hospitalsBausch & Lomb Advanced Cataract Centre, Haldwani, UttaranchalBausch & Lomb Advanced Cataract Centre, Sri Ganga Nagar, RajasthanTejpur Eye Hospital, Tejpur, AssamIndia Partners: Primary CentresShri Sadguru Seva Sangh Trust, ChitrakootVenu Charitable Society, DelhiShroff Charitable Eye Hospital, DelhiAravind Eye Hospital, MaduraiExcellence | Equity | Efficiency62

While the year 2009 – 2010 saw many new beginnings for the Education Centre, 2010 – 2011 wasno exception. The year began with the celebration of the 10 th anniversary of our Bausch & LombSchool of Optometry, which was marked by presentations by renowned international faculty andmany unique activities with students from all over the country visiting. This year also saw us consolidatingour international relationships through Clinical Rotations of residents from countries as far off as USA andAfrica and some eminent guest lectures – both as part of Global Leaders’ Lecture Series and as key speakersat conferences and symposia.EducationA significant milestone was the launch of webcasting of all our morning classes as well as CMEs, thereby givingan opportunity to our alumni and other ophthalmologists to benefit from LVPEI’s education programs in thevirtual world.The Education Centre this year trained 210 ophthalmologists and 681 other eye care professionals, while1460 delegates participated in our CMEs.As we step into the new decade we aim to extend subspecialty fellowship programs to Bhubaneswar andVisakhapatnam campuses and also strengthen other training programs. We will be revisiting the curriculumof the long-term and short-term fellowship programs and also assess the need for new short-term hands-ontraining courses.The coming year will mark the Silver Jubilee of the Institute and many landmark CME programs are planned.

News from Bausch & Lomb School of OptometryThe School Celebrates its10 th AnniversaryThe 10 th anniversary celebrations and convocationof LVPEI's Bausch & Lomb School of Optometry(BLSO) were marked by excitement and the fervor ofcompetitions, cultural events, exhibitions and talks. Thethree-day event (September 3-5, 2010) began with anexhibition by optometry students with themes such aslow vision navigation, visual illusions, eye dissections,nutrition, eye health education and contact lenses andspectacles. International guests, faculty and fellows,visiting optometry students, schoolchildren and theirparents visited the models and exhibits. Songs, dances,skits and an alumni get-together brightened the occasion.Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences (Manipal),Martin Luther Christian University (Shillong) and BharathiVidyapeeth School of Optometry (Pune).The prize for designing the 10 thanniversary logo was won byfaculty Sangeetha Srinivasan, whilealumnus Vinay Swaroop Ballawalked away with the best taglineaward.International Symposium onOptometryTo coincide with the celebrations, on September 5,2010, a seminar was held with distinguished names fromthe world of optometry delivering insightful talks. Theyincluded Prof Earl Smith III, Dean of the University ofHouston College of Optometry, Texas, USA; ProfDesmond Fonn, Director of Centre for Contact LensResearch & Professor at the School of Optometry,University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Prof FionaStapleton, Head of the School of Optometry and VisionScience at University of New South Wales, Australia; ProfJill Keeffe, Head of the Population Health Unit, Centrefor Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne,Australia; and Dr G V S Murthy, Director of the SouthAsia Centre for Vision and Disability, Hyderabad.Students check out each other’s exhibitsAn essay competition was held in 22 Hyderabad schools,with 416 children writing on "Eye and eye care". Winnersand runners-up were chosen from each school to receiveprizes. Prizes were also given to the winners and runnersupof the exhibits and quiz competitions.An inter-collegiate quiz competition was held, judged bysenior BLSO faculty Dr Shrikant Bharadwaj and Dr VijayaK Gothwal. The Elite School of Optometry beat theBausch and Lomb School of Optometry in a nail-bitingtie-breaker. The other four participating optometryschools were Lotus College of Optometry (Mumbai),The seminar provided an opportunity for youngoptometry students to interact with an internationalfaculty and receive career guidance, particularly onpostgraduate study opportunities abroad. Our facultyalso had a brain-storming session with the guests onenhancing the quality of education at BLSO.Later, at a press conference Prof Earl Smith III said thathe was, in collaboration with the Brien Holden VisionInstitute, developing "anti-myopia" glasses and contactlenses meant to arrest myopia. Dr Gullapalli N Rao,Chair, LVPEI stated that the institute was researching anew way of treating cataract. He pointed out that of the75,000 cataract surgeries performed at LVPEI till date,70% were done totally free of cost.Prof Jill Keeffe presentsa certificate to a studentA ‘live’ exhibit – first-hand experienceof how visually impaired persons navigate64

The graduating class with the facultyConvocation for Bachelor of Science in Optometry ProgramAt the convocation for the 2006-2010 batch, 22 students who completed the Bachelor of Science program at BLSO[affiliated to the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani] received their degrees, to hearty applause fromtheir proud parents and family. Prof B N Jain, Vice Chancellor, BITS, Pilani delivered the convocation address.Ritika Kataria received the Outstanding Student award. Eight students passed withdistinction, 12 with first division and 2 with second division. This was the 7 th batch ofstudents graduating from BLSO.BSc Optometry New BatchThe Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani had shortlisted 30candidates for the Bachelor of Science in optometry at BLSO. After final selections20 students were admitted into this year’s program.Scholarships 2010 – 2011At the beginning of each academic year five students of each batch who hadexcelled the previous year receive a scholarship and a certificate. LVPEI hasreceived a grant from Optometry Giving Sight for optometry education.Prof P K Sai Prakash, Principal, BLSO presented the certificates to the followingstudents on Tradition Day (October 30, 2010).Batch 2007 (Third year): Mr Labishetty Vivek, Ms Vaishnavi Raghuram, Ms AfreenFathima, Mr Baggam Vijaya Preethi, Ms Kamalpreet DhaliwalBatch 2008 (Second year): Mr Deniye Gedara Sudeera Kelum Tissa Kumara,Mr Bandela Praveen Kumar, Ms Peguda Rajini, Ms Sunaina Mary Alex, Ms MalavitaMohottalalage Menaka Samanmali MalavitaBatch 2009 (First year): Ms Mekountchou Koumbo Ingrid Ornella, Ms Tran MinhAnh, Ms John Michael, Ms Mantena Reshitha, Ms Pratyusha RBased on the Intermediate marks, the top five students to qualify for scholarshipsfrom the current batch are: Ms Yaramalla Vasavi, Mr Varadarajula Vidhaey Bhatt,Ms Marella Bhagyalakshmi, Mr Haresh Sandhugari and Mr Asadi Stevenson.Prof Desmond Fonn, Director,CCLRU, University of Waterloopresents the Outstanding Studentaward to Ritika KatariaProf Sai Prakash, Principal, BLSO65Prof Fiona Stapleton, Head, SOVS,University of New South Walespresents the certificate to a studentActivity Report 2010–2011

Indian Eye Research Group MeetingThe 18 th annual Indian Eye Research Group (IERG) meeting wasjointly organized by LVPEI and the Centre for Cellular and MolecularBiology from July 31 – August 1, 2010, with 200 delegates participating.Three distinguished founder members of IERG, Dr P Namperumalsamy,Chairman, Aravind Eye Hospital; Dr S S Badrinath, Chairman Emeritus,Sankara Netralaya; and Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Chair, LVPEI were felicitated for theirseminal contributions to eye care and eye research. The Bireswar Chakrabarti OrationLecture was delivered by Dr Donita Garland from Scheie Eye Institute, University ofPennsylvania, USA. This year, all the four awards for best presentation were bagged byLVPEI – Kovai Vilas (Public Health) and Sandhya Subramanian (Clinical Research) wonBest Paper awards, while Subhash Gaddipati (Basic Sciences) and Aravind Roy (ClinicalResearch) won Best Poster awards.Dr S S Badrinath interacts with the delegatesProf D Balasubramanian, Director of Research, LVPEI announced the launch of an IERG-India ARVO chapter. The creation of a proposed Prof D Balasubramanian Oration awardat future meetings was also announced.Dr Inderjeet Kaur with Dr Donita GarlandContinuing Education ProgramsThe IERG delegates and facultyKallam Anji Reddy Campus, HyderabadThe Vision Rehabilitation Centres conducted the 23 rd Low vision Awareness Program (LAP) from April 16-18, 2010.This is a very popular orientation program that offers a broad overview of low vision care and rehabilitation of thevisually impaired. Delegates learn how to take care of patients with low vision, while providing them simple and easyto-uselow vision devices at their hospitals and clinics. The 45 participants included trainees and students of optometry,practicing ophthalmologists and optometrists and LVPEI students and residents.The Low vision Awareness Program delegatesThe 24 th Low vision Awareness Program (LAP), organized from September 27-28, 2010 was an interactive program,with lectures on identification of low vision, low vision devices, ocular conditions leading to visual impairment, integratinglow vision in practice, education of the visually impaired, early intervention and supportive services. Teamwork onunique case discussions about specific eye conditions and hands-on exposure to low vision devices were some of thehighlights. A total of 45 delegates participated.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency66

The 44 th Indian Contact Lens Education Program(ICLEP) basic course was conducted from September 6-9,2010. Supported by Bausch & Lomb, the program featuredlectures and wet lab sessions to train the 70 participatingophthalmologists and optometrists in the fitting of soft andRigid Gas Permeable contact lenses. Three wet lab sessionswere held with hands-on training and live video demonstrations.Dr Gullapalli N Rao presents the Golden Apple Award toDr P NamperumalsamyThe hugely popular Eye-PEP (Postgraduate EducationProgram) was held from September 21 to 26, 2010. In itsthird year now, Eye-PEP was attended by 210 postgraduatestudents from all over the country, while more than 500 viewerswatched the live webcast live. The sessions ranged from basiceye examination techniques to subspecialty talks, focusing onophthalmology and career orientation. The delegates enjoyeda host of stellar presentations from the guest speakers andthe LVPEI faculty and had stimulating interactions. There werecompetitions that included postgraduate lectures, OSCE andpostgraduate grand rounds with exciting prizes. The Eye-PEPIcon award was presented to Dr P Namperumalsamy, Chair,Aravind Eye Care System, who received the Golden Apple fromDr Gullapalli N Rao. The coveted Polished Apple for the mostloved teacher was won by Dr Niranjan Pehere.Several LVPEI residents won awards at Eye-PEP:• Maneck Nicholson – Best Postgraduate Lecture• Ratnesh Sharma – 2 nd Prize in Postgraduate Grand Rounds• Siddharth Dikshit – 2 nd Prize in OSCE (Objective StructuredClinical Exam)• Rajyalakshmi R – 3 rd Prize in OSCE‘Polished Apple’ Dr Niranjan Pehre with Dr Javed AliAn Ocular Oncology Course was conducted by Dr Jerry Shieldsfrom December 4-5, 2010. A world-authority on ocular oncology,Dr Shields is Director of the Ocular Oncology Service at WillsEye Institute and Professor of Ophthalmology at the ThomasJefferson University in Philadelphia, USA. The course provided acomprehensive and systematic review of the tumors of the eyelid,ocular surface, uvea, retina and orbit. The content level rangedfrom basic to advanced and included pictorial demonstrations ofdiagnostic clinical features, and discussions on differential diagnosis,relevant investigations, management, follow-up protocol andprognosis. A case-based and interactive teaching format providedan optimal and friendly learning environment. Dr Shields interactedwith the audience, fellows and residents and inspired both theyoung and the experienced alike. The course was attended by over200 delegates. It was webcast live and watched around the world.Dr Jerry Shields with Dr Santosh G HonavarThe 45 th Indian Contact Lens Education Program (Basic andAdvanced Courses) was conducted from December 9-13, 2010, with66 delegates in the basic course and 68 in the advanced course. Forthe first time the program included live demonstrations on the fittingof multifocal, soft and rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses.Dr Varsha Rathi, Organising Secretary, ICLEP67Activity Report 2010–2011

Glaucoma Update, a full-day CME program was held on March 6, 2011 wherein 100 ophthalmologists and postgraduatesfrom three centers of LVPEI – Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneswar participated through videoconference.Conceptualized for postgraduates, practitioners of general ophthalmology and glaucoma specialists, the programcovered the basic concepts, current status and recent advances in glaucoma in a mix of didactic and interactive sessions.The Institute’s Face Clinic conducted Synapse 2011: A Multispecialty Update on Facial Aesthetic Surgeryand Medicine on March 13, 2011. The first ever meeting dedicated only to facial cosmetic surgery, Synapse 2011 wasattended by dermatologists, maxillo-facial surgeons, oculoplastic surgeons and general plastic surgeons. In addition totalks by experts, there were live demonstrations of facial cosmetic procedures, skin lasers, a cadaver dissection course,and an Orthomax fracture plating workshop. Over 200 delegates and over 300 online viewers participated in theprogram. The Face Clinic caters to all aesthetic and reconstructive needs of the human face.The Association of Parents of Childhood Glaucoma, an initiative ofDr Anil K Mandal (inset), held its 16 th meeting on November 15, 2010. Whileparents shared their experiences, some of the children gave spontaneoussong and dance performances.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency68

Bhubaneswar CampusThe Institute’s Bhubaneswar campus celebrated its 4 th anniversary byconducting a CME program on Neonatal Ophthalmology on July3, 2010. Prof Lingam Gopal from Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai was theresource faculty; LVPEI faculty from Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam andBhubaneswar campus also delivered lectures. A total of 28 delegatesattended the event, which was videoconferenced live to the two campuseswith lively interaction among the participants.Prof Lingam GopalTo commemorate the institute’s 5 th Foundation Day on January 15-16, 2011 a CMEEYE 2011 – Contemporary Practice in Ophthalmology was organized, with11 internationally acclaimed faculty from six countries contributing to the academicdeliberations. Over 175 national and international ophthalmologists participated in theprogram. The highlight was a 3-D presentation of teaching slides – the first of its kindin Orissa.Prof Brien A HoldenDelegates atthe seminarGMR Varalakshmi Campus, VisakhapatnamThe Bug Stops Here, a seminar on corneal infectionsand inflammations was conducted from November 20-21, 2010. The program included case discussions anddidactic lectures and was attended by 110 delegates.A CME program Concepts and Controversies –Cataract & Refractive Surgery was conductedfrom February 26 – 27, 2011. The highlights were a livesurgical demonstration and a phacoemulsification wetlab. Professor Harry W Flynn, Jr, from the Universityof Miami, USA delivered a global guest lecture on“Endophthalmitis,” through live videoconferencingfrom Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, Fl, USA. Theprogram was attended by 65 delegates.A Glaucoma Update was conducted on March 6, 2011,as part of World Glaucoma Week celebrations, with 18delegates attending the seminar.Dr M Srinivasan, Medical Director,Aravind Eye Hospital, Chief Faculty for“The Bug Stops Here”Dr Merle Fernandes speaks at “Concepts &Controversies” CME69Dr PVKS Varma at the Glaucoma UpdateActivity Report 2010–2011

Other NewsGraduation Day 2010The Graduation Day of the 2 nd batch of 7 Masters inCommunity Eye Health (MCEH) students and the 10 thbatch of 10 Diploma in Community Eye Health (DCEH)students was held on December 17, 2010 at LVPEI’sKallam Anji Reddy campus, Hyderabad. Dr Rajesh Noah,Executive Director, VISION 2020 India and othersattended the ceremony. The course convenors wereMr M Srinivas and Dr Rohit Khanna.Diploma in Eye Health ManagementThe Convocation Ceremony for the 2009 batch and theCommencement Ceremony for the 2010 batch of theDiploma in Eye Health Management (DEHM) studentswas held on July 30, 2010. Eight students graduated,while 7 new students have joined the program.Masters in Community Eye HealthProgram Management andEvaluation CourseThe second batch of Program Management and Evaluationcourse was completed on December 18, 2010. This year 9participants enrolled for the course, 3 were international(2 Nepal, 1 Bangladesh) and the rest were from differentparts of India, representing various eye institutions. Thetwo-week program is intended to train managers in thearea of eye care to effectively manage programs so asto achieve the goal of VISION 2020: The Right to Sightprogram. The course conveners for the program wereMs Sethu Sheeladevi and Dr Harish Kumar.Diploma in Community Eye Health graduatesThe second batch of managers of the PME courseResidency Program Directors CourseThe International Council of Ophthalmology conducts courses for Residency Program Directors in different countriesto act as a change agent to improve the quality of residency training in ophthalmology. The first such course in Indiawas held at L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad from October 4-5, 2010. The faculty included: Dr Karl Golnik, USA,Chair, Dr Santosh G Honavar, India, Co-chair, Dr Andrew Lee, USA, Dr Ashok Grover, India, Dr Eduardo Mayorga,Argentina, Dr Gabriella Palis, Argentina, Dr Rajvardhan Azad, India and Dr Venkatesh Prajna, India. Program directorsfrom 60 postgraduate programs in India participated in the course.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency70

Several of LVPEI’s senior faculty have been appointed Visiting Adjunct Professors,Clinical Assistant Professors and Clinical InstructorsUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERROCHESTER, USACASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYCLEVELAND, OHIO, USAAdjunctAdjunct Associate ClinicalClinical AssistantProfessorsProfessorsInstructorsProfessorsTaraprasad DasRohit KhannaAnnie MathaiRaja NarayananPrashant GargAnil K MandalMilind NaikRajeev Reddy PappuruSantosh G Honavar Milind NaikSomasheila Murthy Varsha RathiSubhadra JalaliRaja NarayananRohit KhannaMukesh TanejaAjit Babu MajjiPadmaja K RaniSirisha SenthilAnnie MathaiVirender S SangwanHarsha BL RaoGullapalli N Rao Pravin V KrishnaR MuralidharG Chandra Sekhar• Our collaboration with the University of Nairobibegan with Dr Muchai Gachago and Dr Funjikacoming to LVPEI for their clinical rotation.• For the very first time we webcast the grandrounds of Cole Eye Institute of Cleveland Clinicas part of our advanced tele-education program.November 29, 2010News in Brief• LVPEI had the distinction of conducting the DNBpractical final exams this year – a recognition fromthe National Board of Examinations.• The annual meeting of the University of Rochesterwas telecast for the first time from March 18-19,2011, with renowned speakers from across the globedelivering talks on various topics in ophthalmology.Relearning the Basics!Derek Tole, FRCOphth came for a 2-month stint atLVPEI. An accomplished surgeon at Bristol Eye Hospital,UK, he came for a short-term training program tohone his skills in manual small incision cataract surgery(MSICS) as, he points out, many ophthalmologists todayare "machine dependent", with phacoemulsification beingthe preferred procedure. "It was a steep learning curve,"he smiles!Derek will be part of a hospital team headed to Mbararain Uganda to train doctors in MSICS. Phacoemulsification,being an expensive procedure, calls for a large investmentcoupled with a high cost of disposables and is not suited tothe country at this stage of their economic development.The training is part of an exchange program between theUniversity Hospital Bristol and other UK hospitals on theone hand and units in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania on theother, under the aegis of the International Centre for EyeHealth, UK and VISION 2020: The Right to Sight."What strikes you here is the high number of infections,penetrating injuries, chemical injuries, trauma…theetiology of the infections is completely different fromthat in the UK." Often delays on the part of agriculturallabourers in seeking treatment for trauma and injuries,compounded by dependence on alternate remedies, leadsto a higher number of fungal infections, thus pushing upthe number of corneal transplants required. He admittedruefully that the six-and-a-half-day work week "was a bitof a shock to the system! At home our day starts at 8,not 7!"Dr Derek Tole examines a patient at LVPEI, Hyderabad campus71Derek is Medical Director of Bristol Eye Bank and spenthis second month in the stem cell and microbiologylaboratories at LVPEI and the Eye Bank. "I'm impressed,"he said, "this is probably the biggest eye bank in theworld, processing over 1500 corneas annually, with over1200 transplants being carried out at LVPEI – the largestby a single organisation."For LVPEI too Derek's training has been very satisfying –the skill transfer will help extend much needed eye careto African nations, such as Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.Activity Report 2010–2011

Guest LecturesThe wide network LVPEI has established with institutions and organisations worldwide enables it todraw on an international resource base of senior consultants and experts in every field of eye care.Prof William H Swanson, Professor of Optometry,Indiana University School of Optometry, Bloomington,Indiana, USA, delivered a lecture on ‘Perimetry for the 21 stcentury: how we got here and where we are headed’. April1, 2010Global Leaders: Lecture SeriesIn keeping with our effort to engage with learning and knowledge sharing on a global platform, and makeopportunities for such engagements available to all those who are part of LVPEI, the Education Centreinitiated the Global Leaders Lecture Series last year. The series brings the best minds in ophthalmologyand vision sciences in interaction with the faculty, fellows and trainees at LVPEI’s three campuses (Hyderabad,Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam) through real-time videoconferencing. During the past year, we have beenprivileged to listen to lectures from, and hold discussions with 8 eminent researchers and practitioners fromacross three continents.Dr Cynthia J Roberts, Martha G and Milton StaubChair for Research in Ophthalmology, Professor ofOphthalmology and Biomedical Engineering, The OhioState University, Columbus, Canada, USA delivered atalk on ‘Clinical corneal biomechanics’. February 10, 2011Dr Claude F Burgoyne, Senior Scientist and ResearchDirector, Optic Nerve Head Research Laboratory,Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon, USA delivered alecture on ‘Optic nerve head biomechanics – clinicians andengineers in collaboration at Devers Eye Institute and aroundthe world’. May 25, 2010Prof Frank Martin, Clinical Professor, Departmentof Pediatrics and Ophthalmology, University of Sydney,Australia spoke on ‘Strabismus Syndromes’. July 8, 2010Dr Francis S Mah from the University of PittsburghMedical School, Pittsburgh, PA, USA delivered a talk on‘Adeno, HSV and VZV external ocular disease: State of the artmanagement 2011’. December 18, 2010Dr Harry W Flynn, Jr, Professor & The J Donald MGass Distinguished Chair in Ophthalmology, BascomPalmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miami, Fl, USAdelivered a talk on ‘Endophthalmitis’. February 26, 2011Dr Jonathan H Lass, Chair,Department of Ophthalmologyand Visual Sciences, CaseWestern Reserve University,Cleveland, Ohio, USAspoke on ‘Endothelial survival:Are we giving up the future’.March 4, 2011Dr Rosalind A Stevens, Professor of Ophthalmology,Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical School, Center, Lebanon,New Hampshire, USA delivered a lecture on ‘Retinopathyof prematurity’. January 5, 2011Excellence | Equity | Efficiency72

‘Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in uveitis’ b yDr Jyotirmay Biswas, Head, Department of OcularPathology & Uveitis, Sankara Nethralaya Medical ResearchFoundation, Chennai. May 11, 2010‘Mental health issues in today’s world’ by Dr DianaMontieroer, counseling psychologist, Hyderabad.May 12, 2010‘Decolonising the Indian mind: Culture holds the key’ byProf Sachidananda Mohanty, Professor of English,University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. June 9, 2010“Retinoblastoma” by Dr Lingam Gopal, Director ofResearch, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. June 29, 2010‘Rose K lens’ by Dr Paul Rose,designer of the Rose K contactlens, from Hamilton, New Zealand.August 11, 2010Dr Paul Rose at LVPEI‘The case for peripheral treatment strategies for myopia’ byProf Earl L Smith III, Greeman Petty Professor andDean, College of Optometry, University of Houston,Texas, USA. September 6, 2010Prof Earl L Smith III speaks to a student at the BLSO10 th anniversary exhibition‘Tissue engineering for skin and corneal epithelial cells’ byProf Sheila McNeil, Professor of Tissue Engineering,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, TheKroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, UK.September 22, 2010“What have we learned about eye disease from the LosAngeles Latino Eye Study” by Dr Rohit Varma, Professorof Ophthalmology, Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles,California, USA. September 30, 2010“Wait, wait don’t tell me: Recognizing the distinctive sign inneuro-op” by Dr Andrew G Lee, Chair, Departmentof Ophthalmology, The Methodist Hospital in Houston,Texas. October 5, 2010Guest Lectures73‘Introduction to using “Articulate Suite” to transform passivePowerPoint lectures into web-based rich interactive activities:A tool every teacher can use’ by Dr Eduardo Mayorga,Head, Eye Department, Hospital Italiano de BuenosAires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 6, 2010‘Concept map in education’ by Dr Ana GabriellaPalis, Residency Program Coordinator, Departmentof Ophthalmology, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires,Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 6, 2010‘Exudative retinal detachment’ by Dr Anita Agarwal,Consultant, Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Nashville, USA.October 27, 2010‘Pertinent pupillary problems’ by Dr Karl C Golnik,Neuro-ophthalmologist, Cincinnati Eye Institute, USA.November 10, 2010‘Refractive and corneal changes with overnight orthokeratology’by Dr Sarita Soni, Professor of Optometry and ViceProvost for Research, Indiana University, Bloomington,USA. December 9, 2010‘Science technology and society interface’ by Dr WiebeE Bijker, Professor of Technology & Society Interface,University of Maastricht, Netherlands. January 12, 2011‘One retinablastoma world’ by Prof Brenda L Gallie,Professor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.January 13, 2011‘The science and art behind current approaches tomanagement of glaucoma’ by Dr Karim F Damji,Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Alberta,Edmonton, Canada. January 14, 2011‘Myopia’ by Prof Brien A Holden, Scientia Professor,University of New South Wales; Founder and Director,Cornea and Contact Lens Research Unit, SOVS,UNSW and Deputy CEO, Vision CRC, Sydney, Australia.January 21, 2011‘Project Prakash – studies on theplasticity of vision’ by Prof PawanSinha, Associate Professorof Computational and VisualNeuroscience, Department ofBrain and Cognitive Sciences,Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Cambridge, MA,USA. January 31, 2011‘Heritable disorders of connective tissue’ by Dr Irene HMaumenee, Professor of Ophthalmology, University ofIllinois, Illinois, Chicago, USA. February 15, 2011Activity Report 2010–2011

MIT – India Program: A Great OpportunityFrom Left: Laura Levin Gelba, Swetha Kambhampati, Lindsay Johnson, Ethan SolomonThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) International Science and Technology Initiatives(MISTI) is a pioneering program in applied international studies, connecting MIT students and facultywith research and innovation around the world, through a network of premier corporations, universitiesand research institutes. The MIT–India Program facilitates dynamic connections between the thinkers andidea-makers of the MIT community and their counterparts in India. Every year top MIT undergraduatesand graduates come for a summer internship at outstanding Indian corporations, universities and researchinstitutes, working on a project of their choice under a preceptor/mentor.LVPEI has been a host for the MIT–India Program since 2009. Last year 4 students interned here.It's been wonderful at LVPEI because I always wanted to get some clinical exposure. A lot of things are very differentfrom the US. Here we had an opportunity to do both research and to shadow doctors in the clinics. In the US, youcannot go to an operating room unless you are a medical student. The doctors here see around 80 patients per day,while in the US, a doctor sees 8-9 patients per day. So the stress levels are quite different. Some of the critical cases Ihave seen here have been eye-openers.I will begin my first academic year at Stanford medical school soon and I'm considering taking up oncology, may bepediatric oncology. After coming here, I am also considering ophthalmology. If I do take up ophthalmology, I will comeback to LVP in the 4 th semester.Swetha Kambhampati, graduated with a Bachelor's degree in biologyIt is a great opportunity to be at LVP. I got to see a lot of surgeries. We don't have any hospital that offers treatmentfree of cost. It is really interesting to see all this. What's good here is that we get to see the clinics and work in labs atthe same time. It's really important to be able to see patients so that my research is not just for myself but has somerelevance to human life.Lindsay Johnson, pursuing a Bachelor's in NeuroscienceComing to India and to LVPEI was a great experience. If I had come with my parents, I would have been just a tourist.But this was different. I remember a strange incident when I went to Golconda Fort. A family came up to me and handedme their baby – they wanted me to pose for a photograph holding their baby. I did not understand what was going on.So it's interesting how I think people here are different from me, but people here think I am different from them (laughs)!Laura Levin Gelba, pursuing a Bachelor's in Cognitive Science in PsychologyIt was interesting to get a first-hand experience in the clinical areas of LVPEI. I could also observe in the OR, which issomething I cannot do in the US. So I got a good clinical exposure and also got to shadow the doctors.Ethan Solomon, pursuing a Bachelor's in NeuroscienceExcellence | Equity | Efficiency74

My Experience in the Comprehensive OphthalmologyTraining ProgramBy Jaafar KadiriIam the first ophthalmologist from my town and Icame to LVPEI to learn to convert from extra capsularcataract extraction (ECCE) to small incision cataractextraction (SICS) in order to manage a secondary careunit at the Government Specialist Hospital in my hometown Auchi, Edo state, Nigeria. I had skills for ECCE only.They wanted modern cataract surgery there but cannotafford the phacoemulsification equipment at present, sothey decided to settle for small incision cataract surgery.I was asked to suggest where the training should takeplace. I searched on the internet and found only twoWHO recognized eye training institutions in India thatcould offer me this training — Aravind Eye Hospitaland L V Prasad Eye Institute. The part sponsors for mytraining, Rotary International, Kolkata chose L V Prasad,because one of its members had undergone training inphaco here. The government of Edo state that owns thespecialist hospital where the Rotary Eye Centre will belocated was supposed to meet the remaining cost of thesponsorship. However, they have yet to do so.I am retired from government service and saw this asa challenge to improve my skills. I decided to commitmy own resources for the training, hoping that thegovernment will reimburse me and arrived at LVPEI onNovember 1, 2010.At L V Prasad Eye Institute I was posted for almost amonth at the LVP – Zeiss International Academy ofAdvanced Ophthalmic Education before I went onto various subspecialties like the cornea and anteriorsegment, glaucoma, oculoplasty, pediatrics, neuroophthalmology,retina and emergency management.Since I wanted to convert to SICS, the education officehere, very thoughtfully, broadened my training program!Instead of just converting from ECCE to SICS, they madeit a six months’ training in comprehensive ophthalmology,of which I am the first trainee. This afforded me anopportunity to have up-to-date theoretical, clinicaland surgical knowledge and experience in all the otherophthalmological subspecialties.Jaafar with his family — the twins Hussein and Hassanat, Medina andJaafar, with Juwarat and Mukhtar75Jaafar Kadiri examining a patientAlthough the ECCE to SICS conversion learning curvewas particularly steep for me, over the allotted six monthsI acquired enough skills and confidence to the extentof operating independently, with minimal supervision,because of the highly dedicated fellows of LVPEI whowere assigned to train me.It was not easy — there were happy times and plentyof sad times, like when we could not help a patientmuch. I tried to limit the sad times. I made up my mindthat the outcome of all patients had to be good on thefirst post op day and all the subsequent days. I had tobalance my desire to learn with the trainers’ advice andknow when to let them take over for the benefit of thepatient. I succeeded, despite this restraint on my part, inoperating independently with minimal supervision and allthe trainers were comfortable with me.I had other challenges like getting adjusted to the 7 AMsharp ophthalmology class, the work on Saturdays andeven on Sundays when I had to do post ops for Saturday’soperations. This affected my health also. I came to LVPEIfrom Nigeria with 73 kilos and am going back with 68 kgs,thankful for the invention of the belt which can still holdup my loose trousers!There are no words to express my deep appreciationto the founder, directors, assistant directors, and allthe other staff in various department whom I haveinteracted with, and whom I have not interacted with,but whose tireless efforts made my stay at LVPEI, a worldophthalmological centre of excellence worth it! I lookforward to continuing my phaco training in the nearfuture.Jaafar’s wife Medina is professor of algae at the Universityof Benin. His children are pursuing their careers… Husseinis studying computer engineering, Hassanat economics,Juwarat medicine and Mukhtar is a petroleum engineer.Activity Report 2010–2011

Ophthalmology Education ProgramsWhile most training programs are conducted at our Hyderabad campus, some are also conductedat Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam campuses.Cornea & Anterior Segment24 months 3 monthsDr Archana Singh Agra, Uttar Pradesh Dr Pallavi Nilakhe Mumbai, MaharashtraDr Magie Mathew Puduchery Dr Vikas Tyagi New DelhiDr Charuta J Puranik Thane, Maharashtra Dr Simpy Rajpal New DelhiDr P Vishwamithra Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Dr Harsh Mepani Kutch, GujaratDr Rajat Jain New Delhi Dr Chandrayee Roy Kolkata, West BengalDr Anil Raj K S Davangere, Karnataka Dr Arundhati Guwahati, AssamDr Alok Sati Patna, Bihar Dr Ch Sindu Sulekha Karimnagar, Andhra PradeshBhubaneswarDr Nutan BondardeDr Mahmood MujtabaNashik, MaharashtraBangladeshVisakhapatnamDr Abdullah Saad Al-roabie Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Dr Mekhla Naik Mumbai, MaharashtraGlaucoma24 months 3 monthsDr Paaraj Dave Bhavnagar, Gujarat Dr Archana Pokharel Kathmandu, NepalDr Amyn Chagani Mumbai, MaharashtraDr Parul SinghHaldwani, UttarakhandRetina Vitreous24 months 3 monthsDr Manish Kumar Singh Aurangabad, Maharashtra Dr Anil Kumar Karimnagar, Andhra PradeshDr Mudit Tyagi Ahmedabad, Gujarat Dr M Vani Reddy Karimnagar, Andhra PradeshDr Odarasu M Uhumwangho Lagos, Nigeria Dr Madhavi Latha Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshDr Kshitiz KumarNew DelhiDr Fatson LichiLusaka, ZambiaBhubaneswarDr Ravinder Malik Panchkula, HaryanaDr Nikhil Sardar Mumbai, MaharashtraDr Aparajita Choudhury Allahabad, Uttar PradeshDr Shailesh Agarwal Surat, Gujarat (1 month)Dr Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty Rourkela, Orissa (1 month)Comprehensive Ophthalmology36 months 6 monthsDr Supriya Chinta Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Jaafar Kadiri Lagos, NigeriaDr Rushmika Singla Belgaum, KarnatakaDr Bhupesh SinghLucknow, Uttar PradeshDr Piyush BansalPune, MaharashtraDr Batriti S WallangDr Debarati SahaShillong, MeghalayaKolkata, West BengalBhubaneswarVisakhapatnamPediatric Ophthalmology (24 months)Dr Sumit Monga New Delhi Dr Adhi Wicaksono Jakarta, IndonesiaDr Bhamy Hariprasad Shenoy Davengere, KarnatakaExcellence | Equity | Efficiency76

Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, Orbit & Ocular Oncology24 months 3 monthsDr Fairooz PM Cannanore, Kerala Dr Lily Daniel Chennai, Tamil NaduDr Kruti Mody Mumbai, Maharashtra Dr Ankit Bhavsar Ahmedabad, GujaratDr Pooja Deshmukh Nagpur, MaharashtraDr Emmanuel M Nijenze Muranya, KenyaDr Md Nazimul Hoque Dhaka, BangladeshDr Breguadze Eliso Tbilisi, Georgia, USABhubaneswarDr Eliya ShresthaManual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (1 month)Pokhara, NepalDr N Karthika Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh BhubaneswarDr Shyam Sunder Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh Dr J Thakuria Jalpaiguri, AssamDr Sujata Dabhadkar Mumbai, Maharashtra Dr Sanjukta Mohapatra Bhubaneswar, Orissa (2 months)Dr Kavitha RagaAurangabad, MaharashtraDr Fatima Vas e Menezes Mesquita GoaDr Derek ToleBristol, United KingdomPhacoemulsification (1 month)Dr Jessica Prasada Rao Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh BhubaneswarDr Mallikarjun Ragi Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Kiran Sharma Bengaluru, KarnatakaDr Anil Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Pankaj Pradeep Mangulkar Nashik, MaharashtraDr Tina Damani Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Rinchen Lama Kolkata, West BengalDr Adala Sadana Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh Dr Ranjit Gogoi Shiva Sagar, AssamDr Vaishnavi Batmanabane PuducheryDr Rashi Ray Malda, West Bengal VisakhapatnamDr Sudip Kumar Baidya Kolkata, West Bengal Dr P R Niveditha Reddy Kurnool, Andhra PradeshDr Purnima S Patel Los Angeles, US Dr Sarvani M Nellore, Andhra PradeshDr Sheila Marco Nairobi, Kenya Dr Gunay Aleiva Baku, AzerbaijanDr Aliya Rashid Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir Dr Lennart Elzee Ulm City, GermanyDr Abdullah Saad Alrobaie Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaDr Dayanand S Nijwante Latur, MaharashtraDr Nirmal Kumar Narsaria Cuttack, OrissaRetina Laser (1 month)Dr Abhishek B Dagar New Delhi Dr Amit Srivastava Bhopal, Madhya PradeshDr Brijesh Gupta New Delhi Dr Nitin Mittal Lucknow, Uttar PradeshDr Girish R Bhat Mumbai, Maharashtra Dr Rajesh Gupta Kota, RajasthanDr M B Deshkar Nagpur, Maharashtra Dr Kurada Padma Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshDr Somy Dulani Wardha, Maharashtra Dr Aparna Dornadula Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshRetinopathy of Prematurity (1 month)Dr Prakash V Suranagi Davangere, Karnataka Dr Anshuman Sinha Ranchi, JharkhandDr Patricia SchwachaVitrectomy Training (1 month)GermanyLVP - Zeiss Basic Course in Ophthalmic Diagnostics (1 month)Dr Siva Kumar Wurity Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr K S Preethi Belgaum, KarnatakaDr S Arjun, Vidyanagar Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Rahul Khodbok Belgaum, KarnatakaDr Swapnil Chitkul Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Jasna Rabia Rahman Bengaluru, KarnatakaDr Savitha Alladi Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Soumya Sharat Bengaluru, KarnatakaDr Sruthi Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Rachitra Sarangi Bengaluru, KarnatakaDr U Anusha Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Soumya Basanth Tumkur, KarnatakaDr B Haritha Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Anand G Gannaur Tumkur, KarnatakaDr Manga Venkat Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Dr Bhavana HC Tumkur, KarnatakaDr Ch Srinivasa Reddy Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Dr Priyank Solanki Tumkur, KarnatakaDr Prashant Kumar Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Dr Somashekhar Gokak, KarnatakaDr Krishna Priya K V R Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Dr Shylaja S Chintamani Chikkaballapura, KarnatakaDr T Sada Siva Rao Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Dr Soumya Ganesh K Mysore, KarnatakaDr Ravi Shekar Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Rohini Naik Bijapur, Karnataka77Activity Report 2010–2011

Dr Gowthami Kolla Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh Dr Radhika Torgal Davangere, KarnatakaDr Sumalatha Keerthi Eluru, Andhra Pradesh Dr Alpa Patel Ahmedabad, GujaratDr Pavitra Ashok Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh Dr Dharmik Sharma Ahmedabad, GujaratDr Prabhjot Goyal Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Dr Vishal Panchal Ahmedabad, GujaratDr Amit Kumar Gupta Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh Dr Gaurav Shriram Potnis Guwahati, AssamDr Durga Prasad Sety Sambalpur, Orissa Dr Vikas Sharma Guwahati, AssamDr Prashant Kumar Panda Sambalpur, Orissa Dr Modi Rohit Ramesh Guwahati, AssamDr Shipra Rani Paul Berhampur, Orissa Dr Reemamoni Das Guwahati, AssamDr Debasish Das Bhubaneswar, Orissa Dr Alka Jasrasaria Guwahati, AssamDr Prasant Priyadarshni Bhubaneswar, Orissa Dr Iku Dutt Guwahati, AssamDr Chandana Misra Bhubaneswar, Orissa Dr Anil Sarma Guwahati, AssamDr Manjushri Panigrahi Bhubaneswar, Orissa Dr Nimit Jain Dungarpur, RajasthanDr Monalisa Mohapatra Bhubaneswar, Orissa Dr Robin Bhandari Jodhpur, RajasthanDr Bingya Mishra Bhubaneswar, Orissa Dr Asif Y Virani Thane, MaharashtraDr Muazzam Ali Akbar Darbhanga, Bihar Dr Harpreet Kaur Kald Pune, MaharashtraDr Kumar Nishant Darbhanga, Bihar Dr Nirav D Raichura Mumbai, MaharashtraDr R Venkat Rahavan Madurai, Tamil NaduBhubaneswarDr Suprava Das Bhubaneswar, Orissa Dr M Deepa Bhubaneswar, OrissaPreceptorshipMs Yiu Jeung Choi Panania, Australia Mr Hassan Adam Leicester, UKMr Allan Chain New South Wales, Australia Mr Ebrahim Lorgat Leicester, UKMs Maggie Merg Qian New South Wales, Australia Mr Abdullah Bhamji Leicester, UKMs Renee Gunn Sydney, Australia Mr Adam Patel Leicester, UKMs Connie Tsang Sydney, Australia Mr Mohd Safarisham Bin Kelvin Selangar, MalaysiaMs Nur Shazani Bte Mohd Salleh Penang, MalaysiaMr Shaik SaleemOcularistry Fellowship (24 months)Rajahmundry, Andhra PradeshResearch Fellowship (6 months)Dr Kruti Mody Mumbai, Maharashtra Dr Himika Gupta Mumbai, MaharashtraObservershipDr Abha Gour New Delhi Cornea & Anterior SegmentDr Derek Tole Bristol, United Kingdom Cornea & Anterior SegmentLt Col Sonya Puri Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Cornea & Anterior SegmentDr Parambir Singh Keila Toronto, Canada Cornea & Anterior SegmentDr Sonal Shah Mumbai, Maharashtra Cornea & Anterior SegmentDr Daoudi Rajae Rabat, Morocco Cornea & Stem CellProf Naima Obuahabi Rabat, Morocco Cornea & MicrobiologyDr Nutan Bondurde Nashik, Maharashtra Stem CellMs Shyama Devi New Delhi Contact LensDr Smitesh Shah Mumbai, Maharashtra Retina & VitreousDr Deepthi Reddy Houston, USA Retina & VitreousMs Charuta Nashik, Maharashtra Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery,Orbit & Ocular OncologyDr Komal Deep Bedi Kochi, Kerala Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery,Orbit & Ocular OncologyDr Manish Jain Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh Uvea & Ocular ImmunologyMs Dakaruhipaya War Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Laura Amanda Lyngdoh Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Naugneitlhing Hangshing Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Deepa Lamin Khongiah Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Amy LalNunsiami Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Lalhluzuali Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Mary Lamching Phiamphu Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Edify Bareh Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Kaita Kayina Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMr Buhdor Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Himamani Kalita Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Hoimilnei Lotzem Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMr Sham Chynemale Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryExcellence | Equity | Efficiency78

Ms Atchira A Sangma Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMr Ginsuankhup Tungnung Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMr Hopeful Khongstia Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMs Kaushila Dhakal Shillong, Meghalaya OptometryMr Krishna Pancholi Birmingham, UK OptometryMr Prathna Vadolia Birmingham, UK OptometryMr Krishna Patel Birmingham, UK OptometryMs Simka Varma Birmingham, UK OptometryMs Priya Raiyani Birmingham, UK OptometryMr Prabhdeep Sandhu Birmingham, UK OptometryMr Jasvinder Sikand Birmingham, UK OptometryMs Reena Chahal Birmingham, UK OptometryMs Roshni Minhas Birmingham, UK OptometryMs Diana Prabhu Das Birmingham, UK OptometryMs Simran Grewal Birmingham, UK OptometryMs Carina Trin Sydney, Australia OptometryMs Rebecca Li Sydney, Australia OptometryMs Nodie Errington Sydney, Australia OptometryMs Ambiga Theivendradas Melbourne, Australia OptometryMs Anh Nguyen Melbourne, Australia OptometryMr Nalin Singh New Delhi OptometryMs Shravani Mikkilineni Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Medical StudentDr Amit Sangave Pittsford, New York Medical StudentDr Abhishek Dagar New Delhi AdministrationMr B Gajapathi Rao Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh AdministrationMr Giridhar Dasari Mumbai, Maharashtra AdministrationDr Ahtesham Ul Haq Kolkata, West Bengal Summer InternshipMs Lindsay Johnson Cambridge, USA (MIT India Program) AdministrationMs Swetha Kambhampati California, USA (MIT India Program) AdministrationMs Laura Levin-Gleba New York, USA (MIT India Program) AdministrationMr Ethan Solomon Cambridge, USA (MIT India Program) AdministrationMr Sai Srujan Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (BITS Practice School) AdministrationMr Nabeel, Ahmed Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (BITS Practice School) AdministrationMr P Sai Sashanka Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (BITS Practice School) AdministrationMr R Maheshwar Reddy Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (BITS Practice School) AdministrationMr A Varun Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (BITS Practice School) AdministrationMs Sukanya Chakraborty Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (BITS Practice School) AdministrationMs Bhanu Gupta Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (BITS Practice School) AdministrationBhubaneswarDr Neelam Sapra New Delhi MicrobiologyMr Sanjay Thomas New Delhi MicrobiologyMr Ogunniyi Abiodun Nigeria MicrobiologyMs Seema Ghosh Siliguri, Assam CounsellingMs Nimlamu Sherpa Siliguri, Assam CounsellingMr Jitendriya Sarangi Bhubaneswar, Orissa Patient CareVisakhapatnamMr Amardeep Singh Bedi New Delhi Stratus & Cirrus OCTMr Murad R Kolkata, West Bengal OptometryMr Ch Kiran Kumar Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh OPD ProceduresDr Virginia UtzDr Jeffrey TanDr Hammond Benjamin PDr Vandana ReddyDr Atif CollinsDr Rahul MandigaDr Chris BrownDr Benjamin NicholsonDr Mark FernandezClinical RotationRocky River, USAFremont, USARochester, USARochester, USACleveland, USACleveland, USACleveland, USACleveland, USADurham, United Kingdom79Activity Report 2010–2011

Optometry Education Programs4-year Bachelor of Science in Optometry (2010 batch)Mr M Vinod Kumar Rangareddy, Andhra Pradesh Mr Varadarajula Vidhaey Bhatt Nizamabad, Andhra PradeshMs D Chandana Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Asadi Stevenson Nizamabad, Andhra PradeshMs Amarah Sharmeen Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Marella Bhagyalakshmi Visakhapatnam, Andhra PradeshMr Harish Sandhugari Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms N Sravanthi Mahaboobnagar, Andhra PradeshMr Putta Rambabu Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh Ms Syeda Shafia Mehveen Mahaboobnagar, Andhra PradeshMs V Aparna Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh Ms Yaramalla Vasavi Khammam, Andhra PradeshMr Mohammad Fareed Khan West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh Ms Adike Amulya Warangal, Andhra PradeshMr Marupally Abhilash Goud Medak, Andhra Pradesh Ms Movva Srilatha Krishna district, Andhra PradeshMs Veeravalli Tabita Naomi Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh Mr Tshering Dorjee Kalimpong, DarjeelingMs Sakshi Shivahare Banda, Uttar Pradesh Mr Bikash Gyawali Seti, NepalFellowship in Optometry (2 years)Mr S Manikandan Thiruninravur, Tamil Nadu Mr Venkatesan Thiruvannamali, Tamil NaduFellowship in Optometry (1 year)Mr Abir Lal Mondal Kolkata, West Bengal Ms Tasneem Fatima Lucknow, Uttar PradeshMs Bilkis Parven Kolkata, West Bengal Ms Ghausia Fatmi Darbhanga, BiharMr Snehasis Das Kolkata, West Bengal Mr Shashi Kant Chaudhary Vaishali, BiharMs Ananya Datta Kolkata, West Bengal Ms Neelam Rajendra Pingle Thane, MaharashtraMr Sujoy Mukherjee Kolkata, West Bengal Ms Priyanka Prakash Kurkute Mumbai, MaharashtraMr Nilanjan Pal Kolkata, West Bengal Ms Jyoti Mukesh Dodhi Mumbai, MaharashtraMs Sonali Mandal Kolkata, West Bengal Ms Sarita M Deshpande Raigad, MaharashtraMr Anirban Dutta Purulia, West Bengal Ms Seema Banerjee Dhanbad, JharkhandMr Md Mosaib Omaer Burdwan, West Bengal Ms Swati Kakar New DelhiMs Ch Sirajum Monira Burdwan, West Bengal Ms Krishna P Bhakthan Kochi, KeralaMr Sonauddin Ahmed Malda, West Bengal Mr Sudipta Samanta 24 Parganas, West BengalBiharMr Intekhab AlamHaryanaMs Honey AroriOrissaMr Samir SaterMs Bhakti SatapathyMs Soumya PriyadarshiniMs Haripriya DasMs Chhabina SethyMr Bibhujit RoutMr Gopinath DasMs Minati BeharaMs Saraswathi SamalTamil NaduMr G BoopathiMr V BharathUttar PradeshMr Suneet Sudhakar MishraMr Mithilesh Kumar PandeyMr Shashank PandeyMr Ram Vishal CMr Gufran AhmadVision Technicians Training (1 year)Andhra PradeshAdilabadMr Srinivas CheekatiMs D PravalikaMr Athram SudharshanMr Y ShankarMr Kumra SudharshanChittoorMs D Rebecca RupaMs M Shobha RaniGunturMs S K HasinaHyderabadMr Chandrakanth GangaMr Mahendar GuduruMs M Srujana ReddyMr G Vara PrasadKhammamMr E Kiran KumariMr SK Shamim ParveenMs CH ParvathiMs M VinodaMs MD NazmaMs Thota VijayalaxmiMs M SavithriMs Dharavath VenkatalaxmiMs Guguloth SharadhaMs Kalpana DeviMs A PrasannaMs Areboina PrasannaMs Boddu RaniMs SrilaxmiMs M NagalakshmiMs Pantangi VihariMr Musunoori NareshMr Madipally Gopala RaoKrishnaMr Sandeep PallapoguMs Mukkamala NagaswarupaMs Sattiwada Chandra KalaMr Pallepogu SateeshMahaboobnagarMs Madhu KalmuriMs Shireesha DMr Sudhakar KalmuriMr Boya Shiva KrishnaMr Kalmuri SudhakarNizamabadMr T MaheshPrakashamMs G Ganga BhavaniMs Y Raja ManiMs UshanjaliMs Manasa KamarajugaddaMs Yalakapati ManiMs Asadi RamadeviMs N S Shamshunnisa BegumMr B Venkat SubbareddyMr Naru Raja Sekhar ReddyMr Busi SundaraiahMr Kokkilagadda NagasrinuRanga ReddyMs V LavanyaMr Bhavani Prasad MMr Esther JosephMr Ganesh DeshmukhSrikakulamMs K KalyaniMr M Srinivas RaoMs S KalyaniMr K KrishnaMr G Srinivas RaoMr Kameswar RaoMs Bendi VineethaVijayawadaMs Lam JyothsnaVisakhapatnamMs K RevathiMs P RamadeviMs G Madhavi LathaMs D RamanammaMs T JayalaxmiExcellence | Equity | Efficiency80

Ms G SravaniMs P VaralaxmiMs A RaniMs T Venkata LaxmiMr G Appala RajuMr B KarthikMs Gali SravaniMs Guntuboina Madhavi LathaMs Pithana RamadeviMs T Venkata LakshmiMr Tanara SatishMr G Kiran KumarMr CH Ram Mohan RaoAndhra PradeshVizianagaramMr S KrishnaWest GodavariMs Santhosha Roopa GMs Rakshana Kumari PathalaMr Chandra Sekhar PenumakaMr Shaik KareemullaOptometry Observership (1 month)(Reliance – Vision Express)Ms Bineeta Das Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Amit P Nashik, MaharashtraMr G Sandeep Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Durgesh Choudhari Mumbai, MaharashtraMs Bindu Sandhya Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Laxmi Ravindran Nair Mumbai, MaharashtraMr P Desai Reddy Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Sweta Solanki Mumbai, MaharashtraMr Rajesh K Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Anshuka Jaiswal Mumbai, MaharashtraMr Mahesh Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Hozefa Chamelawala Mumbai, MaharashtraMr P Narsaiah Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Hardew Mahto Mumbai, MaharashtraMr Vijaya Kumari Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Hemangi Gawali Mumbai, MaharashtraMr M Raju Warangal, Andhra Pradesh Ms Hetvi C Josh Mumbai, MaharashtraMr S Madhu Nellore, Andhra Pradesh Ms Dimpal Kaware Mumbai, MaharashtraMr Yogesh Kumar Shukla Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Ms Supriya Awari Mumbai, MaharashtraMr Manesh Kumar Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Mr Rohit R Kadam Panvel, MaharashtraMs Sakshi Varsheny Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh Mr Vinod Pradhan Panvel, MaharashtraMr Rajendra Kaur Noida, Uttar Pradesh Mr Vidyadhar Swami Pune, MaharashtraMr Shahnawaz Ala Noida, Uttar Pradesh Ms Manisha L Jori Pune, MaharashtraMr Manish Shukla Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh Mr Shailesh B Pune, MaharashtraMr Dileep Kumar Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Ms Smita A Mane Sangli, MaharashtraMr Bhupendra Kumar Yadav Marhat, Uttar Pradesh Mr Rami Reddy Chennai, Tamil NaduMr Palak Chandrakanth Patel Ahmedabad, Gujarat Mr Karthik J Coimbatore, Tamil NaduMr Karan Joshi Ahmedabad, Gujarat Ms Anitha Kadambathur, Tamil NaiduMs Nidhi H Rajpura Ahmedabad, Gujarat Mr Mohamed Ismail Cuddalore, Tamil NaduMs Megha Awasthi Ahmedabad, Gujarat Mr Suneesh Bengaluru, KarnatakaMs Saumya Samuel Ahmedabad, Gujarat Mr Debasish Chandra Mysore, KarnatakaMs Sonal Rola Surat, Gujarat Mr Sanil Kayamkulam, KeralaMr Shehzad A Kachwale Baroda, Gujarat Ms Neena Das Kottayam, KeralaMr Yunus Chasmawala Baroda, Gujarat Mr Renjith Kumar Idukki, KeralaMs Aarthi R Dayagal Navsari, Gujarat Ms Any Varghese Ernakulam, KeralaMs Tapasya Tyagi Jaipur, Rajashthan Mr Ajeeb Y Trichur, KeralaMr Suman Choudhari Jaipur, Rajashthan Mr Rohit Aggarwal New DelhiMr Vishnu Dutt Swami Jaipur, Rajasthan Mr Ramashander Gupta New DelhiMr Rahul Sharma Sahibganj, Jharkhand Mr Md Kamyab New DelhiMs Vijaya Khatri Chaibasa, Jharkhand Mr Manoj Chauhan New DelhiMs Ria Banerjee Dhanbad, Jharkhand Mr Nitesh Srivastav New DelhiMr Mujahid Ahmed Patna, Bihar Mr Anas Manzoor New DelhiMr Amal Gosh Midnapur, West Bengal Mr Herojit Asem Imphal, ManipurMr Jani Jamalul Lail Malda, West Bengal Ms Ranjana Kale Bhilai, ChhattisgarhMr Bidyut Bikash Saika Dhemaji, AssamVisakhapatnamMr Lakshna Suresh Bhenwal Mumbai, Maharashtra Mr Brajesh Kumar Mishra Kaimur, BiharMr Shivaji Pise Mumbai, Maharashtra Mr Rajesh Jha Patna, BiharMr Darshil Pravin Gutka Mumbai, Maharashtra Mr Ratesh Pandey Lucknow, Uttar PradeshMr Syed Viqar Ahmed Naqvi Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra Mr Chandra Vir Singh Agra, Uttar PradeshMr Kushal Prashant Shroff Nandurbar, Maharashtra Ms K Viji Chennai, Tamil NaduMr Abhay Kumar Koderma, Jharkhand Mr Suyambulingadurai Tirunelveli, Tamil NaduMs Sweta Kumari Ranchi, Jharkand Ms Shoba Kumaresan Kanyakumari, Tamil NaduMr Shigil Nair Gurgaon, Haryana Ms B D Veena Chitradurga, Tamil Nadu81Activity Report 2010–2011

Mr Mahendra Pratap Singh Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Ms M Maheshwari Coimbatore, Tamil NaduMs Sharmistha Biswas Burdwan, West Bengal Mr K Nisarg Patel Ahmedabad, GujaratMs Aniruddha Banerjee Howrah, West Bengal Mr Vikas Mani Tripathi Jaipur, RajasthanMr Iman Ghosh Kolkata, West Bengal Mr Chandra Sekhar MD Mandya, KarnatakaMr Sandeep Chakrabarti Kolkata West Bengal Mr Mahesh Shanmugam Bengaluru, KarnatakaMr Bikas Kumar Gupta Sun Sari, Nepal Mr Haseem Kolhar Bijapur, KarnatakaMr Binil Kumar Ninan Mumbai, Maharashtra (2 months)Optometry Internship (1 year)BhubaneswarMr Ramesh Kumar Nalanda, Bihar Ms Archayeeta Rakshit Kolkata, West BengalMr Subhash Kumar Nalanda, Bihar Mr Gopal Varshney Aligarh, Uttar PradeshVisakhapatnamMr Shaik Kareemullah Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh Mr Yogesh S Dhumal Pune, MaharashtraMr S Anand Kumar Mahabubnagar, Andhra Pradesh Mr Lokesh Girish Pune, MaharashtraMr Arnav Ghosh Siwan, Bihar Mr Ramdas Laxman Gore Ahmednagar, MaharashtraMr Ashotosh Kumar Singh Siwan, Bihar Ms Apoorva Karsolia New DelhiLow Vision and Rehabilitation (3 months)Mr R Yungandhar Reddy Mahaboobnagar, Andhra Pradesh Ms Geetha Ramakrishnan Selangor, MalaysiaMr Venkatesh Karamchedu, Andhra Pradesh Dr Innocent Emeruera Anglo Jos, NigeriaMs N Dharani Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Mr Fredrick Mwaniki Karamba Nairobi, KenyaMr E Ramdas Markapuram, Andhra Pradesh Ms Swapna Rani Mohapatra Bhubaneswar, OrissaMr K Ravinder Mavala Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Mercyba Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs Poojan Deep Kaur Moradabad, Uttar PradeshEye BankingEye Bank Technicians (3 months)Mr Jahir Burhan Siliguri, West Bengal Mr K Srikanth Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshMr Neeraj Hissar, Haryana Mr Y Balakrishna Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshMr Kallanagouda A Patil Bijapur, Karnataka Mr B Mahesh Kumar Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshMr Pawan Sain Jaipur, Rajasthan Ms Kakileti Swarna Latha Srikakulam, Andhra PradeshMr Bharath Kumar Sharma Jaipur, Rajasthan Mr K V S Ganesh Kakinada, Andhra PradeshMr Ashok Singh Jaipur, Rajasthan Mr Himanshu Jain Indore, Madhya PradeshMr C Rothuamliana Aizawl, Mizoram Mr Satya Ranjan Rout Bhubaneswar, OrissaMr Mintewab Neberu Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2 weeks)Eye Donation Counsellors (3 weeks)Mr N Srinivas Reddy Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Manoj Gulati Seattle, USAMr T Raju Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Padma Raj Bharati Kathmandu, NepalMr T Kishan Reddy Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Bhola Bahadur Khatri Kathmandu, NepalMs Krishna Veni Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Madhusudan Pihan Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs Reshma Sultana Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Niharika Mohapatra Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs Renuka Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Madhabi Rani Behera Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs Sandhya Rani Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Debasmita Sur Bhubaneswar, OrissaMr Ashok Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Ramachandar Gurjar Jaipur, RajasthanMr Uma Maheshwar Rao Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Mr Vishnu Kumar Sharma Jaipur, RajasthanMs Kishore Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Ms Rakhi Rathore Jaipur, RajasthanMs Sujatha Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Mr K C Mathews Angamaly, KeralaMr Srinivasulu Reddy Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh Mr Eldho T Varghese Angamaly, KeralaMs Grace Aizawl, Mizoram Mr Biplab Roy Kolkata, West BengalMr Umesh Ch Dutta Jorhat, Assam Mr Krishna Kumar Singh New DelhiMr Raghavendra Kumar Rai Chandigarh (1 month)Eye Bank Managers (1 week)Mr Mahendra Rai Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh Ms Debasmita Sur Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs Surpiya Hirve Mumbai, Maharashtra Mr Zelalem Mengesha Addis Ababa, EthiopiaMs Uma JhawarIndore, Madhya PradeshExcellence | Equity | Efficiency82

Ophthalmic NursingEye Bank Observers (Ophthalmologists)Dr E Lalitha Siva Jyothi Nellore, Andhra Pradesh Dr Pushpa Raj Singh Lucknow, Uttar PradeshDr Ch Sindu Sulekha Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Parul Singh Haldwani, UttarakhandMr Korva Shankar Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Martha H Mariam Addis Ababa, EthiopiaMr Abiodun Olakunle OgunniyiEye Bank & MicrobiologyLagos, NigeriaMs R Rekha Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms K Suneeta Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshMs D Naga Malleswari Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms B Praveena Khammam, Andhra PradeshMs A Aparna Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms G Priya Visakhapatnam, Andhra PradeshMs B Bagyamma Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms E Punyavati Visakhapatnam, Andhra PradeshMs J Poojitha Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Venkateshwari Vijayawada, Andhra PradeshMs S Rose Mary Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms V Anusha Vijayawada, Andhra PradeshMs K Sindhu Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms G Swarna Warangal, Andhra PradeshMs M Kavitha Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms D Naga Padma Karamchedu, Andhra PradeshMs K Prabhavathi Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Shyamali Routra Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs B Swapna Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Sabitri Rout Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs B Lavanya Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Preetichanda Rout Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs M Santosha Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Manini Das Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs A MadhuriHyderabad, Andhra PradeshSupport StaffMs R Lavanya Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Akhil Jadav Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshMs K Suchitra Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr J Dilip Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshMs Mounica Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Ganga Singh Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshMs Bhargavi Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr H Vijaya Kumar Khammam, Andhra PradeshMs Praveen Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr D Shiva Shankar Khammam, Andhra PradeshMs BJ Pearline Beulah Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Sunil Reddy Khammam, Andhra PradeshMs EB Padma Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr M Ravi Kumar Khammam, Andhra PradeshMr Kasi Viswanath Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms G Sahithya Gajula Khammam, Andhra PradeshMs B Geeta Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms R Madhuri Khammam, Andhra PradeshMs Nazeema Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms S Uma Khammam, Andhra PradeshMr Mahesh Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms U Kumari Paloncha, Andhra PradeshMr T Sumanth Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms T Rajeswari Paloancha, Andhra PradeshMs S K Anjum Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr K A Srinivas Visakhapatnam, Andhra PradeshMr V Sai Kiran Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms D Uma Visakhapatnam, Andhra PradeshMs M Savitri Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr A Kumar Visakhapatnam, Andhra PradeshMr D Shiva Kumar Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms K V Durga Rao Vijayawada, Andhra PradeshMr K Srinivas Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms P Jasmine Vijayawada, Andhra PradeshMr M Anil Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms L Madhavi Vijayawada, Andhra PradeshMr M Pavan Kumar Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms V Bhuvaneswari Vijayawada, Andhra PradeshMs B Krishna Veni Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Lakshmi Suneeta Vijayawada, Andhra PradeshMs D Vani Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr B Venu Prakasam, Andhra PradeshMs P Lakshmi Kanthi Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr D Anand Prakasam, Andhra PradeshMs P Gowri Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr B Suresh Prakasam, Andhra PradeshMr P Chandulal Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms G Swathi Reddy Warangal, Andhra PradeshMs Ch Nageswari Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms K Anuradha Warangal, Andhra PradeshMs Ch Sirisha Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr K Indra Reddy Medak, Andhra PradeshMs K Ganga Bhavani Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr R Krishna Prasad Reddy Medak, Andhra PradeshMs V Rajitha Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Md Sarvar Guntur, Andhra PradeshMs M Vijaya Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Santhoshi Mahaboobnagar, Andhra PradeshMr R Mahender Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr D T Nuka Raju East Godavari, Andhra PradeshMs Kalpana Mishra Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Ms Rachita Priyadarshini Bhubaneswar, OrissaMs R Lakshmi Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Niranjan Senapathi Bhubaneswar, OrissaBhubaneswarMr Mohan Nayak Orissa Reception 6 monthsBio-Medical Technicians (3 months)Mr Tom Prasad Tripati Kathmandu, Nepal Mr Radha Krihsna Suwa Kathmandu, Nepal83Activity Report 2010–2011

Community Eye Health & Community BasedRehabilitationMaster’s in Community Eye Health(A collaborative program with the University of New South Wales, Australia)Mr Sappati Vasantha Rao Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh Mr V V Suresh Nellore, Andhra PradeshMr R Venkata Ramana Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh Mr R L V Chandra Sekhar Kandukuru, Andhra PradeshMr B V M Prasada Rao Srikakulam, Andhra PradeshDiploma in Eye Health Management (1 year)Ms Sridevi Gummadi Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Ms Sirisha Nadella Vijayawada, Andhra PradeshMr Subhani Chintapalli Guntur Andhra Pradesh Mr Gopalarao Karukola Srikakulam, Andhra PradeshMr Ganesh Balla Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Mr Manoj Kumar Sahoo Bhubaneswar, OrissaMr Siva Naresh Ramineedu Krishna, Andhra PradeshDiploma in Community Eye Health (6 months)Ms Padma Devulapally Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh Mr Maneesh Kumar V Kadapa, Andhra PradeshMr Linganna Jadi Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh Mr Ravi Kumar Donthala Kadapa, Andhra PradeshMr Jalender E Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh Mr Rama Krishna Marlapati Guntur, Andhra PradeshMr Rajender Chidurala Warangal, Andhra Pradesh Dr Shreenivas Shouri Anantapur, Andhra PradeshMr Jayasankara Prasad Rao B Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh Mr Mohd Shamim Akhter Khan Rupandehi, NepalMr Venkat Rao D Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Mr Tulasi Prasad Dahal Jhapa, NepalMs Chiang Te-JuNew South Wales, AustraliaCertificate Course in Program Management and Evaluation (5 days)(Supported by National Programme for Control of Blindness and State Blindness Control Society)Dr P V Prasad Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh Dr J Ram Mohan Mahabubnagar, Andhra PradeshDr M Manjulamma Nellore, Andhra Pradesh Dr Nagarjuna Swarna Eluru, Andhra PradeshDr Mansingh Vikarabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr P R Sivasankar Ananthapur, Andhra PradeshDr P Sudhakar Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh Dr B Venkata Narsaiah Khammam, Andhra PradeshDr V Rami Reddy Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh Dr Bheem Singh Nizamabad, Andhra PradeshDr Ravindar Goud Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr R Champatha Rao Adilabad, Andhra PradeshDr B Motilal Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh Dr Ch Kanthaiah Karimnagar, Andhra PradeshDr L Amar Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh Dr K Vijayakumar Warangal, Andhra PradeshDr M Mohan Rao Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Dr K Rajesh Kumar Chittoor, Andhra PradeshDr K N MurthyVizianagaram, Andhra PradeshCertificate Course in Program Management and Evaluation (2 weeks)Mr Bindeshwar Mahato Morang, Nepal Mr Pradeep Peteti Hyderabad, Andhra PradeshMr Sudhir Kumar Thakur Siraha, Nepal Mr B S Davi Raju Srikakulam, Andhra PradeshMs Syeda Asma Rashida Dhaka, Bangladesh Ms Aruna Rani Regu Srikakulam, Andhra PradeshMr Sanjeeb Paul Darjeeling, West Bengal Mr Binoy Kurian Palakkad, KeralaMs Antusha Bhattacharya Darjeeling, West BengalCommunity Eye Care and Community Based Rehabilitation (2 weeks)M S Reddy Lions Eye Hospital, HyderabadMr Gopal Vooradi Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh CEC coordinatorMs Neha MehtaInternship in Public Health (6 weeks)University of Berkeley, CA, USAField Workers Training Program (6 weeks)Bhosle Gopal Rao Patel Eye Centre, Mudhol, Adilabad districtMr Gadadhala Sayanna Puspur, Lokeshwam CoordinatorMr Shyam S Malegow, Kuber CEC field service organiserMr Sayanna K Timmapur, Bhainsa CEC field service organiserMs Sandhya M Naleswar, Navipet CEC field service organiserCEC: Community Eye CareCBR: Community Based RehabilitationExcellence | Equity | Efficiency84

Ms Madhu Verma N Nagar Lokeshwaram CEC field service organiserMs Karuna Gaddam Vannel, Navipet CEC field service organiserMs Neela Chatla Navipet, Nizamabad CBR field service organiserMr Babu Rao Sonkamble Mudhol CBR field service organiserMr Rahul Gunderao Bijur, Bhainsa CBR field service organiserMs Sumitha S Kissan Galli, Bhainsa CBR field service organiserKuchukulla Ramachandra Reddy Eye Centre, Thoodukurthy, Mahaboobnagar districtMs Sunitha Toom Polepally, Bijinapally CBR field service organiserMr Venkataiah Kumara Nakkalapally, Peddakottapally CBR field service organiserMr Kothapally Raju Indrakal, Nagarkurnool SupervisorMs Rajitha K Nagarkurnool CEC field service organiserMs Prameela E Achampet CEC field service organiserMs Bhavani S Alwala, Peddamandadi CEC field service organiserMs Yashoda P Chukkayapalli, Kollapur CEC field service organiserMs Leelavathi K Lingala CEC field service organiserMs Padmavathi D Bijinapally CEC field service organiserMs Haritha A Antayapally, Ghanapur CEC field service organiserVenkata Lakshmi Eye Centre, Karamchedu, Prakasam districtMr Chiranjeevi Telagatoti Punuru, Yaddanapudi CBR field service organiserMr Madhava Rao Chadalawada Chirala CBR field service organiserMr Seetharamaiah Chennupati Nagulapalem, Parachur SupervisorMr Shyam Tekkam Yuddanapudi CEC field service organiserMr Prabhudas Nadendla Chirala CEC field service organiserMr Anand Babu Kavuri Vetapalem CEC field service organiserMs Kanthamma Ballikurava CEC field service organiserMs Madhavi Yanamadala CEC field service organiserSeshanna Chennawar Eye Centre, Adilabad, Adilabad districtMr Rakesh Mukkera Jainath, Adilabad CBR field service organiserMr Santosh Meshram Jainath, Adilabad CBR field service organiserMr Krishnamachary Erroju Ichoda, Adilabad SupervisorMr Narsing Nadukunti Sirsana, Bella CEC field service organiserMr Suresh Dumma Sirsana, Bella CEC field service organiserMr Bheem Rao S Jainur CEC field service organiserMr Vilas L Gudihathnoor CEC field service organiserMr Sunil L Gudihathnoor CEC field service organiserMr Goutham Kumar M Degama, Bazarthnoor CEC field service organiserSiloam Eye Centre, Madanapalle, Chittoor districtMr Subbanarasaiah Bukkapatnam Madanapalle CBR field service organiserMr Anand D Madanapalle CoordinatorMr Ameenulla S Madanapalle Vision Centre CoordinatorSwarna Bharat Eye Centre, Venkatachalam, Nellore districtMr Ramesh Vidavaluru Chittamuru, Nellore CBR field service organiserMr Rajesh Voosi Dargamitta, Nellore SupervisorMr Murali Devareddy Chittamuru, Nellore CEC field service organiserMr Venkateshwara Rao A Yellasiri, Chillakuru CEC field service organiserMr Chengaiah M Ojili CEC field service organiserSudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Eye Centre, Markapuram, Prakasam districtMr Vijay Kumar Racheeti Markapuram CBR field service organiserMr A Ashok Kumar Markapuram CBR field service organiserMr Shaik Abdul Suhel Basha Cumbum CoordinatorMr Shaik Anwar Basha Cumbum CEC field service organiserMr Anub Babu Pothipogu Giddaluru CEC field service organiserMr Vijay Kumar Racheeti Markapuram CEC field service organiserMs Sarada Ch Markapuram CEC field service organiserSudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Eye Centre, Kandukuru, Prakasam districtMs Korikamma Devarapalli Medarametla, Korisapadu CBR field service organiserMr Manohar Banala Oguru SupervisorMr Suneel Kumar Boodala Atmakur, Ulapadu CEC field service organiserMr Sudhakar Kola Ulavapadu CEC field service organiserMr Bhaskar Rao Baddepudi Medarmetla CEC field service organiser85Activity Report 2010–2011

Mr Suresh P Kothapatnam CEC field service organiserMr Jayapal N C S Puram CEC field service organiserMr Chanti Enagaluri Ulavapadu CEC field service organiserMr Hajarath P Lingasamudram CEC field service organiserLVPEI – VST Vision Screening Centre, Ramnagar, HyderabadMr Surender Reddy Narra Hyderabad CEC field service organiserMr Veeru Matam Hyderabad CEC field service organiserMr Shanker Mamilla Kismatpur CEC field service organiserLVPEI, GMR Varalakshmi Campus, VisakhapatnamMr Yerrapatrudu R Narsipatnam, Golugonda CoordinatorMr G Ram Babu Visakhapatnam CoordinatorMr Sanjeev Kumar G Moturvanipalem, Parwada CEC field service organiserMr Durga Rao M Boni, Anandpuram CEC field service organiserMs Latha M R S Gopalapatnam, Chinnagatti CEC field service organiserMr G Sanjeev Kumar Parwada CEC field service organiserMs G Govindamma Chinnagadili CEC field service organiserMs B Maheshwari Chinnagadili CEC field service organiserMs S Rebacca Latha Chinnagadili CEC field service organiserMr Dhanaji Chandrawaram CEC field service organiserMr Prasanna Kumar S Kota CEC field service organiserLVPEI, Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus, VijayawadaMr Sai Satyanarayana Murthy P Nidadavolu Optical salesMs Madhuri Gullapalli Vijayawada Patient counselorMs Lakshmi Suneetha Jammula Vijayawada Patient counselorMs Devi Prasanna K Vijayawada PharmacistsMr Challagali Prem Sagar Vijayawada CoordinatorMs Chagantipati Tulasi Chodavaram CEC data entry operatorMs Akarapu Nirmala Tadigadapa CEC field service organiserMs Zilla Krupa Kumari Tadigadapa CEC field service organiserMs Vepuri Martha Tadigadapa CEC field service organiserRotary Mahanagar Netralaya, Kolkata, West Bengal (1 month)Mr Sanjay Kumar Patra Kolkata, West Bengal OptometristMr Hiralal Chakraborty Howrah, West Bengal OptometristMs Iram Rashid Kolkata, West Bengal Observer/AdministratorMs Minati Khatua Midnapur, West Bengal OT NurseMs Sushmita Das Kolkata, West Bengal ReceptionistMr Ahin Mitra Bongaon, West Bengal OT TechnicianSight to ReSight – Vision Health GuardiansAda Blindness Free Village ProgramKallur Vision Centre RegionMr A Mahesh Jainath, Adilabad Ms M Rajavva GollamadaMr P Devanna Jainath, Adilabad Ms K Sulochana PenchikalapaduMr M Raju Jainath, Adilabad Ms N Lakshmi AndakurMr B Anil Jainath, Adilabad Ms Ch Padma KallurMr T Rajeshwar Jainath, Adilabad Ms J Lavanya BhurgupalliMr B RajuJainath, AdilabadMr NarashimuluJainath, AdilabadMr P NarsingJainath, AdilabadMr DhattuJainath, AdilabadAchampet Vision Centre RegionNagarkurnool Vision Centre RegionMs M Lakshmi Achampet Ms R Bhagyalakshmi NagarkurnoolMs Jahangir Begum Bommanpally Ms Nirmala NagarkurnoolMs K Venkatamma Siddapur Ms G Suvarna SripurMs N Sujatha Achampet Ms K Navya YendabetlaMs M Kalamma Nadimpally Ms Saida Begum PeddamuddunoorBhainsa Vision Centre RegionMs Krishna LeelaVainasMs V KevalDegamMr GandharEggam & BulgoanMs B LakshmiMangriExcellence | Equity | Efficiency86

Field investigators for Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Follow-up Study (APEDS-II) (1 month)Mr Md Imtiaz Rahim Mahabubnagar, Andhra Pradesh Mr B Raghavender Mahabubnagar, Andhra PradeshMr Raghu Swamy Mahabubnagar, Andhra Pradesh Mr D Ramdasu Nalgonda, Andhra PradeshOrientation Program for Field Staff (2 days)(Sponsored by Luxottica India Eyewear Pvt Ltd., Gurgaon, Haryana)Mr Ashutosh Vaidya National Sales Head Mr Adaviprasana V N Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Naveen Kumar SA Territory Sales Manager Mr Kishore Padma Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr T Henry Benil Kumar Territory Sales Manager Mr Lakshmikanthan D Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Narender Kumar Territory Sales Manager Mr Ajeet Singh Sengar Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Akbar H Kadwani Territory Sales Manager Mr Prahar Patel Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Gagan Tiwari Territory Sales Manager Mr Prakash Rathore Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Tirthankar Mukhopadhyay Territory Sales Manager Mr Vineet Sharma Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Arunava Chakraborty Territory Sales Officer Mr Pradeep KumarTyagi Sr Territory Sales ManagerMr Pritam N Gite Territory Sales Officer Mr Sandeep Kumar Singh Sr Territory Sales ManagerMr Amit Verma Territory Sales Manager Mr Akash Deep Deb Sr Territory Sales ManagerMr Sudipto Chatterjee Territory Sales Manager Mr Gunasekaran M Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Sumit Chopra Territory Sales Manager Mr Ramesh Kumar Sahay Sr Territory Sales ManagerMr P Sunil Chakrapani Territory Sales Officer Mr S Tamil Mani Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Manish Kumar Yadav Territory Sales Manager Mr Harsha M Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Arun VA Territory Sales Manager Mr Sujoy Bose Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Sherry P George Territory Sales Officer Mr Gaurav Kuthiala Sr Territory Sales OfficerMr Ajay Bhaya Territory Sales Officer Mr N Chandra Shekar Sr Territory Sales ManagerMr R Kamesh Mani Brand Sales Manager Mr Rashid Khan Brand Sales ManagerMr Haressh Babu Brand Sales Manager Mr Rohit Chauhan Brand Sales ManagerMr Amitav SarkarRegional Sales Manager87Activity Report 2010–2011

Central Audio-Visual UnitSix international and regional awards for LVPEI videos were the highlights of the year for the CentralAudio-Visual Unit. Prizes were won by Dr G Chandra Sekhar, Dr Sirisha Senthil, Dr Virender S Sangwan,Dr Anil K Mandal, Dr Surbhi Joshi, Dr Santosh G Honavar, Dr Avinash Pathengay, and Dr Savari Desai.Details in Honors & Awards, page 33Videos Edited (surgical) – 379; Videos Produced – 3520 years of comprehensive care for children withcongenital glaucoma – Dr Anil K Mandal Botulinum toxin: Therapeutic applications in oculoplastics –Dr Swathi Kaliki, Dr Milind N Naik Ahmed TM Glaucoma Valve (AGV TM ) with Bostonkeratoprosthesis – Dr Sirisha Senthil, Dr Mukesh Taneja,Dr V S SangwanManagement of pediatric cataract – Dr Amit Gupta,Dr R MuralidharSutureless oral mucus membrane graft in managementof ocular sequelae of Stevens Johnson Syndrome: Workswonders – Dr Surbhi Joshi, Dr Santosh G HonavarSuturing techniques for beginners – Dr Swathi Kaliki,Dr Milind N Naik Management of intra-operative and postoperativecomplications with Ahmed Glaucoma Valve implant –Dr Sirisha Senthil Ocular surface squamous neoplasia: Tips and tricks –Dr Savari Desai, Dr Santosh G HonavarAn extraordinary foreign body – Dr Milind N Naik,Dr Manju MeenaHyaluronic acid filler in the management of congenitaleyelid malposition – Dr Milind N Naik, Dr Manju Meena Pellucid marginal corneal degeneration: An update –Dr MS Sridhar, Dr Pravin K Vaddavalli Sebaceous gland carcinoma: The leading masquerade –Dr Santosh G Honavar, Dr Surbhi D JoshiShield ulcer complication of vernal keratoconjunctivitis:Not a true ulcer – Dr MS Sridhar, Dr Pravin K VaddavalliSurgical management of a complicated cataract followingtrabeculectomy in a 85-year-old patient – Dr Anil KMandal, Dr Ratnesh SharmaSimultaneous trabeculectomy and scleral fixated IOLimplantation in the management of unilateral aphakia and coexistingglaucoma – Dr Sirisha Senthil, Dr G Chandra SekharManagement of failing filtering bleb – Dr Sirisha SenthilBow tie technique – Dr Manjushree BhateShort tag technique – Dr Manjushree BhateLighting up lives: eye donation – Sai Sashanka Paladugu(BITS student), Shobha Mocherla, Brinda RamchandranMIVS Wound Construction Technique – Dr Raja NarayananManagement of bleb leak – Dr Sirisha SenthilOpting for optometry – Dr Shrikanth BharadwajOphthalmology training in India – Dr Tarjani Dave,Dr Santosh G Honavar Teacher of teachers: Dr Namperumalsamy –Dr Sirisha SenthilEye-PEP 2010 menu based multimedia DVDEyeSmart Electronic Medical Records (EMR) connectingtechnology & eye care – Dr Antony Vipin DasCombined trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy in infantileglaucoma with acute hydrops – Dr Anil K MandalCombined trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy in congenitalglaucoma with SWS – Dr Anil K MandalThe OPAI 2009-2010 video yearbook – Dr Milind NaikSurgical outcome of early onset glaucoma in childrenwith Axenfeld-Riegers Anomaly – Dr Anil K Mandal, DrPradeep K ReddyApplanation tonometry (educational video with ALCON’ssupport) – Dr Sirisha SenthilPortable tonopen (educational video with support fromAlcon) – Dr Vanita Pathak-Ray MRD video medical records filing and maintenance –Kishore BabuCataract surgery counseling (Telugu) – Manjula ES,Dr Sirisha Senthil Congenital glaucoma – A learner’s perspective –Dr Aparna RaoExcellence | Equity | Efficiency88

Prof Brien holden Eye Research Centre• Champalimaud Translational Centre for EyeResearch• Kallam Anji Reddy Molecular GeneticsLaboratory• Sudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Stem Cell BiologyLaboratory• Jhaveri Microbiology Centre & Saroja A RaoImmunology Laboratory• Biochemistry Laboratory• Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory• Clinical Research• Visual Optics and Psychophysics LaboratoryEye ResearchResearch at L V Prasad Eye Institute is conductedthrough its constituent arm, the Hyderabad EyeResearch Foundation (HERF), which is recognizedby the Indian Government’s Department of Scientific andIndustrial Research (DSIR) as a Scientific and IndustrialResearch Organization (SIRO). HERF continues tocompete for and receive grants from all over theworld to conduct cutting edge research on the eye.The Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre (BHERC)investigates the causes and treatment strategies foreye diseases through its various components, namelythe Champalimaud Translational Centre (C-TRACER),the Jhaveri Microbiology Centre, the Saroja A RaoImmunology Laboratory, the Kallam Anji Reddy MolecularGenetics Laboratory, the Sudhakar and Sreekanth RaviStem Cell Biology Laboratory, the Ophthalmic PathologyLaboratory, the Visual Optics and PsychophysicsLaboratory, and the clinical research laboratories. Eachof these components has been named after its donor, inrecognition of their generous support.Research ProfileResearch at HERF is focused on:a) the molecular and functional genomics of inheritedand complex eye diseases,b) devising molecular diagnostics for early detectionand seeking targets where effective intervention canoccur,c) microbiology of eye infections, andd) stem cell technology to treat some eye disorders.new developments during the YearResearch at HERF has progressed smoothly with twonew additions this year. Besides our continuing workin the areas of molecular and functional genetics of eyediseases, cell biology and stem cell-based therapy fordamaged corneas, and microbiology of eye infections,we added two new themes. One is the work initiated byDr Shrikant R Bharadwaj in the area of the developmentof vision in infants – eye movements, coordination andbinocular vision. This is a new area involving physiologicaloptics and related areas of vision science. The other isa Wellcome Trust bilateral grant that we have receivedin the area of Research & Development for AffordableHealthcare in India. In this project, we will be evaluatinga biocompatible synthetic polymer sheet on which wegrow limbal stem cells and compare this with culturing onhuman amniotic membrane. Dr Virender Sangwan is leadingthis project and cell biologists Drs M Indumathi and CharanyaRamachandran are involved in the experiments.

The other pleasant news is that the Indian Department ofBiotechnology (DBT), which has been funding our workthrough a ‘program support’ mode, has been satisfiedwith our progress and has asked us to apply for expansionof the project into a ‘Centre of Excellence’ (CoE) mode.This would allow us to initiate dream projects such as(a) studying the genetic epidemiology of eye diseases, bystudying the same 5000 subjects whom we had examinedunder a previous study, the Andhra Pradesh Eye DiseaseStudy (APEDS) over a decade ago, and (b) initiate genetherapy work on patients with the condition called LeberCongenital Amaurosis. We are hoping that this CoEproposal will be successful.Support and RecognitionHERF has been receiving competitive grants from theDepartment of Biotechnology (DBT), Department ofScience and Technology (DST), Council of Scientific& Industrial Research (CSIR), and the Indian Councilof Medical Research (ICMR) – all from India, and fromthe Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal, InternationalAtomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Switzerland, as well asthe National Eye Institute (NEI, National Institutes ofHealth), USA.Likewise, collaborative research has been initiated withcolleagues in Australia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and Tunisiathrough the DBT-sponsored bilateral Indo-Australianand Indo-Canadian programs and the DST-sponsoredIndia-Japan, Indo-Tunisian and Indo-Brazilian programs.In addition, HERF is one of the four pillars of themultinational research and development group calledVision Cooperative Research Centre (operating fromSydney, Australia), and conducts research on its behalfon a series of clinical studies such as antibacterial contactlenses and corneal onlays.The Institute is recognized as an external researchcentre by the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad; BirlaInstitute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani; and theUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Thisenables research scholars from LVPEI to register with,and obtain their PhD degrees from these universities.Collaborative research has also been forged withcolleagues at the Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology(CCMB), Centre for DNA Fingerprinting & Diagnostics(CDFD), and University of Hyderabad – all in Hyderabad,at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and IndianStatistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. These have allowedresearchers at LVPEI to access state of-the-art equipmentand sophisticated facilities at these institutions.Clinical ResearchLVPEI’s multidisciplinary clinical research is of internationalstandards and is sponsored by Indian funding agenciesand multinational companies from USA and France. Thegroup conducts not only intramural clinical research,but also participates in multicenter clinical trials. Eachclinical research project and trial goes through a rigorousexamination by an independent Institutional ReviewBoard (IRB), for its scientific and ethical aspects and onlythose that are approved are taken up. A list of clinicalresearch projects currently being conducted at HERF isgiven later in the section.Champalimaud Translational CentreThe Champalimaud Translational Centre for Eye Researchwas set up at LVPEI in January 2008. The ChampalimaudFoundation, based in Lisbon, Portugal, was set up onthe bequest of the late Portuguese entrepreneur andphilanthropist, António de Sommer Champalimaud. TheFoundation has a long-term commitment to supportmedical research, in particular neurology, oncology andthe vision sciences. The Champalimaud Foundation andL V Prasad Eye Institute have agreed on the developmentof a vast program of translational research through theestablishment of the Champalimaud Translational Centrefor Eye Research or C-TRACER.Research at C-TRACER will focus on the following areas:• Advanced molecular and functional genomics;• Research and therapy through the utilisation of stemcells in vision-related illnesses;• Translational research utilising existing and novelclinical methodologies for furthering the knowledgeof vision in ways that can be readily applied to patients;• Exchange programs involving scientists chosen byLVPEI and the Champalimaud Foundation;• Introduction of capacity building programs fordeveloping Lusophone countries such as Mozambique,Angola, Timor and others; and• The organization of the Antonio ChampalimaudSymposium on January 30 th every year in whichleaders in ophthalmology from across the world, aswell as distinguished scientists from India, are invitedto lecture.Fourth Annual Antonio ChampalimaudResearch SymposiumThe Fourth Annual Antonio Champalimaud ResearchSymposium was held on January 30, 2011. TheChampalimaud Keynote Oration was given by ProfessorNarsing A Rao of Doheny Eye Institute, University ofSouthern California, Los Angeles on various aspects ofuveitis. This was followed by talks by Dr Kanuri VS Raoof the International Centre for Genetic Engineering &Biotechnology, New Delhi, who spoke on the systembiological approach to drug targets in tuberculosis,Professor Pawan Sinha of MIT, Cambridge, MA, USAon the neural rewiring occurring in children after theyhave been provided surgical treatment for congenitalcataract, Professor Jose Cunha-Vaz of AIBILI, Coimbra,Portugal on biomarkers for the progression of diabeticretinopathy, and Dr Joaquim Murta of the ophthalmologydepartment of the University of Coimbra, Portugal oncorneal transplantation and its future trends.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency90

Hyderabad Eye Research FoundationEthics CommitteeChairJustice T N C RangarajanFormer Judge, High Courts of Madras and Andhra PradeshHyderabadMember SecretaryDr Harsha BL RaoOphthalmologist, L V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadMembersDr Padmaja Kumari RaniOphthalmologist, L V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadDr Subhabrata ChakrabartiScientist, L V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadDr Usha RamanAssociate ProfessorUniversity of HyderabadHyderabadMs Gayathri RamachandranRetired IAS officerHyderabadDr Madhukar ReddyOphthalmologist, Drishti Eye ClinicHyderabadDr Nuzhat AzizObstetrician, Fernandez Hospital Pvt LtdHyderabadDr Roy VergheseConsultant physician, Elbit DiagnosticsHyderabadResearch Advisory BoardProf Dipankar ChatterjiMolecular Biophysics UnitIndian Institute of Science, BangaloreDr Alka SharmaJoint DirectorDepartment of BiotechnologyNew DelhiDr Anuradha LohiaCEOWellcome Trust – DBT India AllianceHyderabadDr Ghanshyam SwarupScientistCentre for Cellular & Molecular BiologyHyderabadProf D BalasubramanianDirector of ResearchL V Prasad Eye InstituteHyderabadDr Ch Mohan RaoDirectorCentre for Cellular & Molecular BiologyHyderabadDr Seyed E HasnainProfessor, Biological SciencesIndian Institute of TechnologyNew DelhiLt Gen D RaghunathPrincipal ExecutiveSir Dorabji Tata Centre for Research in Tropical MedicineIndian Institute of Science Campus, BangalorePlus scientist members of Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation Board91Activity Report 2010–2011

Program support on translational researchon eye diseasesInvestigators: D Balasubramnian, Chitra Kannabiran, GeetaK Vemuganti, Subhabrata Chakrabarti, Inderjeet KaurSupport: Department of Biotechnology, India (Programsupport grant)India has about 15 million blind people. Of these, about10 million are cataract blind, about 1.2 million are blinddue to uncorrected refractive errors, and another 1.0million due to infection of the eye. All these are easilymanaged through effective national level programs since,in each of these cases, ready and effective solutions areavailable, and no new research is needed. But the restof the blindness burden is due to corneal dystrophies,glaucoma, retinal disorders and inherited problems. Inthese instances, basic research and its application andtranslation are badly needed. Fortunately, the statusof research in these areas in India is of the same leveland quality as elsewhere, and the connection betweenbasic researchers and clinicians is good and mutuallyResearch Projectsproductive, particularly in ophthalmology. We need totake advantage of this combination and hence the needfor translational research on eye diseases.The program has the following R&D projects:Focal Theme 1: Stem Cell Biology and TherapyProject A: Establishment of a centre fortranslational research in stem cellsFocal Theme 2: Molecular Genetics of OcularDiseasesProject B: Translational research in the geneticsof retinal diseasesProject C: Molecular genetic study of retinopathyof prematurityProject D: Identifying candidate genes associatedwith raised intraocular pressure inprimary open angle glaucomaProject E: Molecular phenotyping of geneticmutations leading to eye disorders– functional studies on the disorderassociated proteinsKallam Anji Reddy Molecular Genetics Laboratory and ChampalimaudTranslational Centre for Eye Research (C-TRACER)Genomics of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)and familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR)Investigators: Inderjeet Kaur, Ganeswar Musadda,Sonika Rathi, Subhadra Jalali, Padmaja K Rani,Subhabrata ChakrabartiSupport: Department of Biotechnology, IndiaRetinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a leading cause ofblindness in premature children and one of the priorityareas of WHO’s VISION 2020: The Right to Sightglobal initiative. In order to understand the underlyinggenetic etiology contributing to this complex disorder,an assessment of its incidence along with maternaland neonatal risk factors was done at LVPEI, withcollaborating neonatal intensive care units at Hyderabad,India. The initial study revealed a significant differencein the incidence of ROP amongst singletons and twincohorts and the gestational age of less than 30 weekswas a significant maternal risk factor. A comprehensivegenetic analysis of candidate genes involved in thedevelopment of early retinal vasculature and angiogenesisby customized genotyping and resequencing is in progress.Additionally, the vitreous humor levels of growth factorsand genes involved in angiogenesis is being assessedin patients with advanced stages of ROP by multiplexbead array method to assess the concordance betweenthe protein expression and genetic association data.Candidate gene screenings on cases of familial exudativevitreoretinopathy (FEVR) are under way, which would befollowed by genotype-phenotype correlation.Genetic and phenotypic comparison of primarycongenital glaucoma in India and BrazilInvestigators: Subhabrata Chakrabarti, Anil K Mandal, IvanM Tavares, 1 Jose P C Vasconcellos, 2 Monica Mello 2Support: Department of Science and Technology, India(Indo-Brazil collaborative program)Primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) results in anirreversible blindness in children and is largely attributedto mutations in the CYP1B1 and LTBP2 genes. While theestimates of mutation frequencies vary widely acrosspopulations, there are subtle commonalities with respectto the prevalent mutation among different populationsthat occur on a uniform haplotype background. Themutation spectrum of CYP1B1 among PCG patients fromBrazil and India provides a unique opportunity to unravelthe similarities and dissimilarities in the genetic basisof PCG patients and further decipher their origin andmigration across these populations.Central India Eye and Medical Diseases StudyInvestigators: Subhabrata Chakrabarti, Jonas Jost, 3 VinayNangia, 4 Inderjeet KaurSupport: University of Heidelberg, GermanyThe Central India Eye and Medical Diseases Study(CIEMS) is a clinical and population genomic study in arural central Indian region (Nagpur) on 5000 individualsover 40 years of age. It aims to dissect the underlyingclinical and genetic mechanisms in various ocular andother systemic diseases in order to understand their1Vision Institute, Federal University of Sao Paolo, Brazil t 2 Campinas State University, Sao Paolo, Brazil t 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Universityof Heidelberg, Manheim, Germany t 4 Suraj Eye Institute, Nagpur, IndiaExcellence | Equity | Efficiency92

Characterization of the SLC4A11 gene responsiblefor corneal endothelial dystrophyInvestigators: Chitra Kannabiran, Neerja SharmaSupport: Champalimaud Foundation, PortugalOur previous studies involved mapping and identificationof the causative gene for the recessive form of congenitalhereditary endothelial dystrophy (CHED), a diseaseinvolving corneal opacities in infants and young children.The gene identified by us and others was the sodiumbicarbonate transporter-related gene, SLC4A11. Weare studying the wild type and mutant proteins (foundin CHED patients) encoded by this gene in order tounderstand its properties and its pathogenic basis usingsuitable cell lines.Jhaveri Microbiology CentreLoop-mediated isothermal amplification methodfor the diagnosis of viral retinitis caused by HerpesSimplex, Varicella Zoster and CytomegaloVirusesInvestigators: G Ashok Kumar Reddy, 1 B Praveen Kumar,Inderjeet Kaur, Rajeev Kumar Reddy, Annie MathaiSupport: Department of Science and Technology, IndiaThis project aims at developing a novel nucleic acidamplification method called loop-mediated isothermalamplification (LAMP) for the diagnosis of viral retinitis,caused by Herpes Simplex, Varicella Zoster andCytomegalo Viruses. The most significant advantageof LAMP is the ability to amplify specific sequences ofDNA under isothermal conditions between 63°C and65°C, thereby obviating the need for a thermal cycler.Detection of the amplification is achieved simply by achange of color with the addition of SYBER green dye.Genetics of retinoblastomaInvestigators: Chitra Kannabiran, Vidya Latha Parsam,Md Javed Ali, Santosh Honavar, Geeta VemugantiSupport: Champalimaud Foundation, PortugalRetinoblastoma is an intraocular malignancy involvingthe retinal precursor cells and affects children belowthe age of 5 years. It is caused by mutations in the RB1gene. We developed an effective screening protocol forretinoblastoma using the patients’ genomic DNA, thatcan potentially identify the oncogenic mutation in >80%of patients. We have also performed analysis of the RB1mRNA in patients to further detect changes that werenot detectable in DNA analysis. Splicing defects werefound to be caused by mutations at splice sites and byexonic substitutions.Molecular characterization of nonsporulatingflamentous fungi isolated from microbial keratitisInvestigators: G Ashok Kumar Reddy, Prashant Garg, UshaGopinathan, Chitra KannabiranSupport: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, IndiaMicrobial keratitis remains a leading cause of blindnessworldwide. Among severe infective forms of keratitis,fungal keratitis is the most common in many developingcountries like China, India, Ghana and Nepal. More than105 species of fungi, classified in 56 genera, have beenreported to cause mycotic keratitis. Of the differentfilamentous fungi isolated from mycotic keratitis therewere a significant number of unidentified fungi due tolack of sporulation. Accurate identification of these fungiis essential for the selection of appropriate antifungaldrugs for treating these infections. The aims of the studyare assessing the species distribution of nonsporulatingmolds isolated from patients with mycotic keratitis bymolecular methods and studying the treatment outcomeof keratitis caused by nonsporulating molds.Sudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Stem Cell Biology Laboratory andChampalimaud Translational Centre for Eye Research (C-TRACER)Development of a synthetic biodegradable cellcarrier membrane for the transplantation ofcultured cells or freshly excised autologous tissue(limbal segments or oral mucosa) for diseases ofthe corneaInvestigators: Virender S Sangwan, D Balasubramanian,Indumathi Mariappan, Geeta K Vemuganti, Sheila Macneil 2Support: Wellcome Trust, United KingdomWhen the outer epithelial layer of the cornea is damagedby chemical or fire burns, vision is compromised. Incertain situations, it is possible to use stem cell therapyto generate a functional outer corneal layer, by isolatingstem cells from a healthy limbus, an area that surroundsthe cornea, and cultivating them on an appropriatesubstrate to generate a transparent and functional cornealepithelium. This is then transplanted on the patient’seye to offer significant restoration of vision. The humanamniotic membrane is currently the most commonlyused substrate for culturing and transplanting limbalstem cells. While this procedure is successful, the studyinvestigates whether it is possible to replace the amnioticmembrane, so as to avoid viral contamination, shelf lifedegradation and other potential risks associated with theuse of a biological material. A synthetic biodegradablepolymer membrane developed by our collaborators1GHR Micro Diagnostics, Hyderabad t 2 University of Sheffield, UKExcellence | Equity | Efficiency94

at Sheffield University promises to be valuable. In thisproposal, we aim to develop and clinically evaluate theuse of the polymer membrane as a replacement for thehuman amniotic membrane. If successful, this will providea safer, affordable, and more accessible alternative to thehuman amniotic membrane.Derivation of retinal neurons from ciliarypigmented epithelium of the human eyeInvestigators: Indumathi MariappanSupport: Department of Science & Technology, IndiaThe ciliary margin zone is known to harbor retinal stemcells in lower vertebrates and plays an active role inthe regeneration of the adult retina. Proliferating stemlikecells were also reported in the ciliary-pigmentedepithelium (CPE) of higher mammals like the mouse andrat. These CPE cells were shown to differentiate into RPEcells and retinal neurons including the photoreceptorcells. This study aims to culture and characterize thehuman ciliary-pigmented epithelium derived retinal stemcells (RSCs) using donor eyeballs collected from theeye bank (after the removal of the corneo-scleral discsfor corneal transplantation) as the tissue source and toidentify suitable culture conditions for the differentiationof RSCs into different retinal cell types.An advanced surface for the cell therapy of limbalepithelium for ocular surface disease: Proof ofconcept and clinical trialsInvestigators: Virender Sangwan, Indumathi MariappanSupport: Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund, Department ofBiotechnology, IndiaThis project aims to produce surface modified therapeuticcontact lenses for in vitro culture and delivery of limbalepithelial cells for the treatment of ocular surfacediseases. The project also includes a ‘proof of concept’clinical trial in order to establish the safety and efficacy ofthis technique in comparison to the established techniqueof corneal epithelial transplantation using humanamniotic membrane (hAM) as a culture substrate. Plasmapolymer coating technique allows exact control overthe film thickness and with an appropriate chemistry;we anticipate that this technique would offer a betteralternative to hAM for culturing limbal epithelial cells andtheir subsequent delivery on to the corneal surface.Cultivation and characterization of humanlacrimal gland cells for potential clinicalapplication for post radiotherapy xerophthalmiaInvestigators: Geeta K Vemuganti, Santosh G Honavar,Vijay Anand P Reddy 1Support: International Atomic Energy Agency, AustriaDry eye condition due to failure or improper tear fluidsecretion by lachrymal glands is a serious problem inpatients undergoing radiation treatment for oculartumors. With the aim of providing cell therapy for treating1Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad95lacrimal gland dysfunction, our group has initiated workon culturing lacrimal gland cells using tissues that wereharvested from patients undergoing exenteration. Thepreliminary results show that the lacrimal gland epithelialcells (LGEC) can be isolated from the source tissues byusing an ollagenase and hyaluronidase enzyme cocktail andcan be cultured on denuded human amniotic membrane,matrigel and collagen. Further characterization of thecultured cells is in progress.Evaluation and characterization of cancer stemcells in retinoblastoma tumorInvestigators: Geeta K Vemuganti, Santosh G Honavar,Chitra KannabiranSupport: Indian Council of Medical Research, IndiaIt is believed that a tumor tissue originates from amutated stem cell and these stem-like cancer cells couldinfluence disease prognosis and response to therapy.This study attempts to identify stem-like cells presentin retinoblastoma tumors by characterizing differentsubpopulations of cells based on their light scatterproperties and differential marker expression by FACSanalysis. Our results indicate the presence of two differentcell types in Rb tumors. The small cells designated asFSC low/SSC lowwere positive for CD44 and negative forCD133, CXCR4 and CD90 and the large cells designatedas FSC high/SSC lowwere positive for all the above markers.RT-PCR analysis revealed that the sorted FSC low/SSC lowcells expressed high levels of retinal progenitor markersPROX1 and Syntaxin1A and, therefore, could representthe stem-like cells of Rb tumors.Generation of disease specific inductedpluripotent stem cells from dermal fibroblasts ofpatients with retinal dystrophyInvestigators: Indumathi Mariappan, Chitra Kannabiran,Subhadra Jalali, Milind NaikSupport: Department of Biotechnology, IndiaRetinal dystrophy is a genetic disorder and also an agerelated disease resulting in gradual degeneration ofthe photoreceptors and the RPE cells. Therefore, cellreplacement therapy offers great promise in treatingsuch diseases. However, an adult human retina doesnot harbor any stem cells to regenerate the lost cells.This has initiated a search for suitable cell sources thatcan give rise to the retinal cells. Recently, it was shownthat adult somatic cells can be reprogrammed to ES-likecells by ectopic expression of certain genes implicated instemness and pluripotency. These cells were christenedas induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Our group hasinitiated basic research towards exploring the feasibilityof using iPS cells generated from adult dermal fibroblastsas the stem cell source for deriving retinal cells. Towardsthis direction we have derived and characterized miPSlines and also established protocols for differentiatingthem into RPE cells. Efforts are now directed towardsestablishing patient-specific human iPS cells.Activity Report 2010–2011

A study of unilateral retinoblastoma with andwithout histopathologic, high-risk features andthe role of adjuvant chemotherapy – a groupwidephase 3 studyInvestigators: Santosh G Honavar, Geeta K VemugantiSupport: National Childhood Cancer Foundation, USAThe objectives of the study are:• To prospectively determine the prevalence of highrisk,histopathologic features such as choroidalinvolvement, optic nerve invasion, scleral and anteriorsegment involvement in patients with unilateralretinoblastomas who have undergone enucleation;• To demonstrate that patients without certain high-riskfeatures can be successfully treated with enucleationalone by estimating the event-free survival (EFS) andoverall survival (S), where an event is defined as theoccurrence of extraocular or metastatic disease;• To estimate the event-free survival (EFS) andoverall survival (S) in patients with specific high-riskfeatures who are uniformly treated with adjuvantchemotherapy, where an event is defined as theoccurrence of extraocular or metastatic disease; and• To estimate the incidence of toxicities associatedwith the proposed adjuvant chemotherapy.Expected outcomes: The event-free survival and overallsurvival distributions will be estimated for patients withhigh-risk features (treated with adjuvant chemotherapy)and separately for subjects without high-risk features(treated with enucleation alone). Toxicities associatedwith the adjuvant therapy for patients with high-riskfeatures will be descriptively summarized. The study isstill in the active recruitment phase.Indian Council of Medical Research NationalRetinoblastoma (ICMR) RegistryInvestigators: Santosh G Honavar, Vijay Anand P Reddy,Himika GuptaSupport: Indian Council of Medical Research, IndiaThe main objectives of the proposal are to developa reliable database on retinoblastoma, record themagnitude of the problem, assess the efficacy of thetreatment protocol and remission status and study themortality rate. The project is being done in a prospectivefashion. All new patients of Indian nationality diagnosedwith retinoblastoma from April 1, 2009, are beingregistered. Details of the patients are recorded manuallyby a research fellow in the proforma designed by ICMR.Then a data entry operator enters the data in excel sheet.The data is updated and edited periodically, and sent tothe chief investigator at ICMR, Delhi.Applied value of the project: It is a hospital-based specialcancer registry project that will enable researchers andclinicians to understand retinoblastoma and its clinicalpresentation in the Indian scenario, which is differentfrom that in western literature. The data collected at theend of (proposed) five years across the country will openup new avenues for research, while increasing awarenessabout any shortcomings in the diagnosis and managementof retinoblastoma, thus helping in salvaging more eyes. Itwill also give an insight into existing referral patterns andsurvival analysis of retinoblastoma patients.Research in BiochemistryProtein structural analysis of the dichotomy in thecataract phenotypes seen associated with variousmutations in human gamma – crystallinInvestigators: D Balasubramanian, V Pulla Rao VendraSupport: Department of Biotechnology, IndiaOver 16 mutations seen in gamma crystallin genes areassociated with congenital cataracts. Our analysis showsan intriguing dichotomy; mutations in the N-terminaldomain (N-td) of these two-domain proteins areassociated with peripheral cataracts, while those in theC-terminal domain (C-td) lead to nuclear cataract. Weinvestigated this dichotomy by comparing the structuralproperties of the various mutant proteins. We chose towork with human gamma-D-crystallin (HGDC) as therepresentative protein, since its structure both in thecrystalline and solution state are known. The cDNAsof wild type (wt), and various mutants were cloned,and the resultant proteins isolated. The conformationalproperties and structural stability of the proteins werecompared using spectroscopic analysis. Their ability tobind Ca 2+ was studied using the mimic dye Stains-all.Comparative modeling of wt and mutants was also done.We found that: (1) C-td mutants are far less solublethan the wt or N-td mutants; (2) N-td mutants, whilestructurally very similar to wt, display minor ‘stickypatches’ in their tertiary structure, promoting interproteinaggregation, whereas C-td mutants expose afar larger number of apolar residues; (3) while wt andN-td mutants bind to the Ca 2+ -mimic dye Stains-all, C-tdmutants do so far weaker, suggesting that the Greek Keyfolds (Ca 2+ binding sites) in the C-terminal domain aredisturbed in them but maintained in the N-td mutants.We conclude that partial unfolding of the C-terminalstructural motif in the C-td proteins (not seen in the N-tdmutants) destabilizes the structural integrity and stability,causing rapid aggregation, weakened Ca 2+ binding andpossible activation of proteolysis, while N-tds display‘native state aggregation’. These structural differencesbetween the N-td and C-td mutants appear to lead tothe phenotype differences.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency96

Visual Optics and Psychophysics LaboratoryNeural control of focusing and eye alignment inthe human visual systemInvestigators: Shrikant R Bharadwaj, Geeta Sravani, AsaNarasaiah, Vaishnavi Raghuram, Vivek Labhisetty, SamratSarkarSupport: Ramalingaswami Fellowship, Department ofBiotechnology, Government of IndiaSimultaneous clear and single vision in the two eyes isa prerequisite for normal cortical visual development.Numerous animal models and clinical correlations haveestablished that abnormal visual experience duringdevelopment (e.g., chronic blurred vision or an eye-turn)causes irreversible deficiencies in fundamental visualfunctions such as depth and localizing/navigating obstaclesin a 3-D environment. Humans control their own postnatalvisual experience through focusing and eye-alignmentmotor responses. The overall goal of this project is tounderstand how the neural control of these two motorresponses is brought about in typically developing infants,children and adults. The questions addressed include therelative weighting of various sensory cues in driving thesemotor responses, the various neural strategies employedto optimize the performance of these responses,age-related differences in the characteristics of theseresponses and why do these responses break-down inindividuals with visual anomalies like lazy eye (amblyopia)and eye-turns (esotropia).Focusing and eye-alignment responses will be stimulatedusing a custom-designed (in collaboration with theIndiana University School of Optometry) stimulationchannel and these responses will be recorded using noninvasivephotorefraction and eye-tracking techniques.The equipment is fully calibrated and experiments arecurrently underway to understand the characteristics offocusing and eye-alignment in the presence of differencesin retinal image quality in the two eyes (Anisometropia).Development of a novel cell-phone basedtechnique to measure refractive errorsInvestigators: Shrikant R Bharadwaj, Veerendranath Pesala,Sangeetha Srinivasan, Ramesh Raskar, 1 Vitor Pamaplona 1Support: Ramalingaswami Fellowship, Department ofBiotechnology, IndiaUncorrected refractive errors (short-sightedness, longsightedness,etc) are the largest cause of avoidableblindness in rapidly developing countries like India.The effectiveness of population-based vision screeningprograms will be significantly enhanced by employinga rapid, cost-effective and quantitative method forestimating these refractive errors. A novel cell-phonebased technique (NETRA) has been designed to rapidlyquantify the refractive-error status of the eye by theCamera Culture Group at MIT, Boston and we areinvolved in the clinical testing and calibration of thisdevice to ensure its worthiness to be used as a screeningtool in the community.The optical set-up of NETRA consists primarily of amicrolens array that is retrofit on a high-resolution cellphoneto display a spatially resolved pattern of red-greenlines to the subject. Refractive error is estimated bythe patient (with or without the aid of a technician) byaligning the red-green patterns using a custom-designeduser-interface on the cell-phone. The data gets storedon the cell-phone and can be retrieved using standarddata transfer procedures. The results on 30 adultsthus far show that the refractive errors estimated byNETRA are within +/-0.5D of standard clinical refractionmeasurements – basically, NETRA performs very closelyto standard clinical procedures. The key to the success ofNETRA is threefold: 1) its cost-effectiveness, 2) type ofcell-phone used and 3) the ease of the user-interface. Theprojected cost of the optical set-up is a mere $2 (excludingthe cell-phone). In its current state, NETRA requires ahigh-end cell phone with good spatial resolution. The redgreenpatterns projected in the cell-phone should have agood resolution to support the precise measurement ofrefractive error. Efforts are under way to make NETRAusable on any regular cell-phone. The instructions foruser-interface are currently in English and efforts are alsounder way to provide instructions in the local languages.1Camera Culture Group, Media Labs, MIT, Boston, USA97Activity Report 2010–2011

Ocular Microbiology Service, LVPEI, BhubaneswarOcular infections caused by Staphylococcusspecies: Study of clinico-microbiologic features,virulence markers and genome profileInvestigators: Savitri Sharma, DV Singh 1Support: Department of Science and Technology, IndiaStaphylococci are normal flora in the conjunctiva andat the same time cause a variety of eye infections.This project aims to determine the clinical profile ofvarious ocular infections caused by different species ofStaphylococcus, identify Staphylococcus species causingocular infections by phenotypic methods, determineantibiotic susceptibility of the clinical isolates ofstaphylococci from ocular infections and normal eyes,determine virulence factors of the clinical isolates ofstaphylococci from ocular infections and from normaleyes, perform genetic profiling of methicillin sensitiveand resistant Staphylococcus species and compare clinical,phenotypic and genotypic features of methicillin sensitiveand resistant Staphylococcus species. Sixty staphylococcalisolates from clinical samples and 35 isolates from normalindividuals have been characterized phenotypically usingATB system and their antibiotic susceptibility has beentested by minimum inhibitory concentration of numberof antibiotics. Currently, the isolates are being tested forthe presence of mecA gene that determines methicillinresistance.Investigation of epidemic keratoconjunctivitisin Orissa and Andhra Pradesh: Epidemiologicalprofile, clinical spectrum and molecularcharacterization of causative agentsInvestigators: Savitri Sharma, Ashok Reddy, BNR Subudhi, 2Sujata Das, Srikant K Sahu, Somasheila MurthySupport: Department of Biotechnology, IndiaEpidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC), characterized byinflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea, produces asudden onset of acute follicular conjunctivitis and stromalkeratitis and is a worldwide problem causing significantand sometimes lasting morbidity. Human adenoviruses(HAdVs) HAdV-D8, -D19, and -D37 are believed tobe the most common pathogens causing EKC. It is onlyrecently that another organism has come to be associatedwith EKC. We observed a seasonal outbreak of EKCthat clinically mimicked viral EKC but was proven to bea microsporidial infection by laboratory investigations.Though EKC is usually caused by adenovirus type 8, 19and 37, the association of microsporidia with EKC hasnot been studied so far.In this study, we plan to investigate the seasonal EKCthat occurs in Orissa and other parts of the country yearafter year. The study will determine the clinical spectrumof the disease in patients and characterize the adenovirusand microsporidia isolated from patients with epidemickeratoconjunctivitis. The study will also investigate thepresence of microsporidia/adenovirus in the eyes ofhealthy individuals and patients with diseases other thankeratoconjunctivitis. Fifty patients with EKC have beenrecruited in the study and their corneal scrapings havebeen tested by microscopy and PCR for microsporidia andadenoviruses. Sequencing studies are being undertakento find the species and seroptypes involved.Co-relation of mycobacterial DNA load in aqueoushumor measured by real-time polymerase chainreaction with clinical characteristics of presumedocular tuberculosis (BOYSCAST fellowship)Investigator: Soumyava BasuSupport: Department of Science and Technology, IndiaReal-time PCR was performed using DNA extracted fromaqueous/vitreous humor samples with hydrolysis probes,dually labeled with fluorescein and a dark quencher.Specific primers targeting the IS6110 multicopy elementof M tuberculosis were designed and matched to respectiveprobes in UPL web-based system. DNA amplification wasperformed using the Light Cycler 480 platform (RocheApplied Science, Indianapolis, IN), with all samples beingtested in triplicate. Five samples from four patients havebeen analyzed with the following results:Patient Diagnosis (sample) Real-time PCR Bacterial genome load (in grams)1a Anterior Uveitis (Diluted vitreous) Negative –1b Anterior Uveitis (Undiluted vitreous) Negative –2 Panuveitis (aqueous) Positive 1.15 x 10 -143 Neuroretinitis (aqueous) Negative –4 Posterior Uveitis (aqueous) Positive 2.23x10 -131Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar t 2 MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, OrissaExcellence | Equity | Efficiency98

Research scholars at Prof Brien Holden Eye Research CentreBASIC RESEARCHKallam Anji Reddy Molecular Genetics LaboratoryIndu Shree Rajan Babu, Neeraja Sharma Cherukupalli, Saritha Katta, Srujana Nagireddy, Vidya Latha Parsam, SuryaPrakash Goud Ponnam, Ganeswara Rao, K Nageswara Rao, Sonika Rathi, Nishika Sahini, Rachna ShuklaSudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Stem Cell Biology LaboratorySubhash Gaddipati, Subba Rao M, Savitri Maddileti, Rohini Nair, Naresh Polisetti, Purushotham Reddy, Raja Lakshmi S,Murali Mohan Sagar, Shubha Tiwari, Vasundhara Vauhini, Mangalangi UResearch in Biochemistry LaboratoryVenkata Pulla RaoJhaveri Microbiology CentrePraveen Kumar BalnePost-doctoral research associatesMadhavi Latha Chalasani, Charanya RamachandranCLINICAL RESEARCHStudy OptometristsBidula Das, Rekha G, Anand K, Debasis Mohapatra, Veerendranath Pasala, Bikash Samal, Mukesh Kumar SinghClinical Research CoordinatorsSamuel Clement, Sateesh Kumar, Bikash Chandra Mohanta, Bibhudatta Mohanty, Savitha Narayan, K M Prashanti,Sreedevi Rayasam, Preeti Semwal, Suman Thadishetti, Vishal VennuSupport staffShobha Laxmi, Lokesh, Aparajita Mallick, Laxmipriya Pattanaik, Rupasree, Susant Kumar Sahoo, Preeti TornalLVPEI, BhubaneswarOcular Microbiology ServiceSarita Kar, Praveen Kumar BalnePhDs awarded in 2010Kovai Vilas (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)Guru Prasad Manderwad (Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani)Naresh Polisetti (University of Hyderabad)K Purushotham Reddy (Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani)99Activity Report 2010–2011

Basic Research ProjectsName of the Project Project Investigators Supported by DurationGenetic evaluation of factor B and complement componentC2 in the susceptibility to age related macular degenerationProgramme support on translational research on eye diseasesDr Inderjeet KaurProject A: Dr Geeta K VemugantiProject B: Dr Chitra KannabiranProject C: Dr Inderjeet KaurProject D: Dr S ChakrabartiProject E: Prof D BalasubramanianDepartment of Science &Technology, IndiaDepartment ofBiotechnology, IndiaMolecular studies on hereditary cataract Dr Chitra Kannabiran Council of Scientific &Industrial Research, IndiaLoop mediated isothermal amplification method for thediagnosis of viral retinitis caused by herpes simplex varicellazoster and cytomegalo virusesCultivation and characterization of human lacrimal glandcells for potential clinical application for post radiotherapyxerophthalmiaStudy of the role of vitreous liquefication in age-relatednuclear cataractAn advanced surface for the cell therapy of limbal epithemiumfor ocular surface disease: Proof of concept and clinical trialsMolecular characterization of nonsporulating filamentous fungiisolated from microbial keratitisEvaluation and characterization of cancer stem cells inretinoblastoma tumorGenetic and phenotypic comparison of primary congenitalglaucoma in India and BrazilCentral India Eye & Medical StudyGenetic comparison of primary congenital glaucoma in Indiaand Tunisia - understanding the possible founder effectsGeneration of disease specific inducted pleuripotent stemcells from dermal fibroblasts of patients with retinal dystrophyMolecular mechanism of pathogenesis of glaucoma caused bymutation in optineurinNational Retinoblastoma RegistryDevelopment of a synthetic biodegradable cell carriermembrane for the transplantation of cultured cells or freshlyexcised autologous tissue (limbal segments or oral mucosa)for diseases of the corneaDerivation of retinal neurons from ciliary pigmentedepithelium of the human eyePreservation and use of adult stem cells and the use ofbiomaterial scaffolds for clinical applicationsOcular infections caused by Staphylococcus species: Study ofclinico-microbiologic features, virulence markers and genomeprofile.Investigation of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis in Orissa andAndhra Pradesh: Epidemiological profile, clinical spectrum andmolecular characterization of causative agentsDr G Ashok Kumar Reddy 1Dr Geeta K VemugantiDr Santosh G HonavarDr Vijay Anand P Reddy 2Prof D BalasubramanianDr Pravin V KrishnaDr Virender S SangwanDr Indumathi MariappanDr G Ashok Kumar ReddyDr Geeta K VemugantiDr Subhabrata ChakrabartiDr Ivan M Tavares 3Dr Monica Mello 4Dr Subhabrata ChakrabartiDr Jonas Jost 5Dr Subhabrata ChakrabartiProf G Fethi 6Dr Indumathi MariappanDr Chitra KannabiranDr Subhadra JalaliDr Milind NaikProf D BalasubramanianDr Subhabrata ChakrabartiDr Ghanshyam Swarup 7Dr Santosh G HonavarDr Himika GuptaProf D BalasubramanianDr Virender S SangwanDr Geeta K VemugantiDr Indumathi MariappanDr Virender S SangwanDr Jose D dos Santos 8Dr Savitri SharmaDr DV Singh 9Dr Savitri SharmaDr Ashok Kumar ReddyDr BNR Subudhi 10Department of Science &Technology, IndiaInternational Atomic EnergyAgency, AustriaDepartment ofBiotechnology, IndiaDepartment ofBiotechnology, IndiaCouncil of Scientific &Industrial Research, IndiaIndian Council of MedicalResearch, IndiaDepartment of Science &Technology, IndiaUniversity of Heidelberg,GermanyDepartment of Science &Technology, IndiaDepartment ofBiotechnology, IndiaDepartment ofBiotechnology, India2007-20102007-20122007-20102008-20102008-20122009-20112008-20112009-20122008-20112009-20122009onwards2009-20112009-20112010-2013Indian Council of Medical 2009-2012Research, IndiaWellcome Trust, UK 2010-2013Department of Science &Technology, IndiaDepartment of Science &Technology, IndiaDepartment of Science &Technology, IndiaDepartment ofBiotechnology, IndiaMolecular diagnostics for ocular tuberculosis Dr Soumyava Basu BOYSCAST fellowship,Department of Science andTechnology, IndiaNeural control of focusing and eye-alignment during visualdevelopmentDr Shrikant BharadwajDepartment of BiotechnologyRamalingaswami fellowship2010-20132011-20142009-20112010-201220102010-20141GHR Micro Diagnostics, Hyderabad t 2 Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad t 3 Vision Institute, Federal University of Sao Paolo, Brazil t 4 Campinas StateUniversity, Sao Paolo, Brazil t 5 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Heidelberg, Manheim, Germany t 6 Institut Salah Azaiz, Tunis, Tunisiat 7 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India t 8 Biosckin-Rud Eng, Portugal t 9 Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar t 10 MKCGMedical College, Berhampur, OrissaExcellence | Equity | Efficiency100

Name of the ProjectA randomised double-masked active controlled phase 3 study of theefficacy, safety and tolerability of the repeated doses of intra vitrealVEGF trap-eye in subjects with neovascular age related maculardegeneration (AMD) View 2 studyComparative, randomized, open trial on the anti-inflammatory efficacyof diclofenac released from an intraocular lens versus administrationof 0.1% diclofenac eye-drops in the prevention of post-operativeinflammatory manifestations after cataract surgery. Ancillary study: 1year follow-up of the safetyA phase 2/3 randomised,controlled double-masked multi-centercomparitive trial in parallel groups to compare the safety and efficacy ofintravitreous injections of 0.3mg pegaptanib sodium (Macugen) given asoften as every 6 weeks for 2 years, to sham injections in subjects withDiabetic Macular Edema (DME) involving the center of the maculaMicro current stimulation for retinitis pigmentosa 650 device pilotstudyProtein Kinase C ß Inhibitor - reduction in the occurrence of centerthreateningDiabetic Macular Edema. B7A-MC-MBDLA double-masked, randomized, controlled phase 3 study of the efficacy,safety, and tolerability of repeated intravitreal administration of VEGFtrap-eye in subjects with macular edema secondary to Central RetinalVein Occlusion (CRVO)Clinical Research ProjectsProjectInvestigatorsDr Taraprasad DasDr Raja NarayananDr Virender S SangwanSupported byBayer HealthCare,GermanyIOL Tech Carl ZeissMediTec, FranceDuration2008-20112006-2012Dr Subhadra Jalali Pfizer, USA 2006-2011Dr Subhadra Jalali Scyfix, USA 2007-2010Dr Subhadra Jalali Eli Lily, India 2005-2010Dr Raja NarayananRegeneronPharmaceuticals Inc.,USA2010-2012ENDURE Study Dr Somasheila Murthy Novartis, India 2010-2011Ocular surface complaints in glaucoma patients Dr G Chandra Shekar Alcon, USA 2010-2011MMT Study Dr Vanita Pathak-Ray Allergan, USA 2010-2011A study of unilateral retinoblastoma with and without histopathologichigh-risk features and the role of adjuvant chemotherapy – a groupwidephase III studyDr Santosh G Honavar National ChildhoodCancer Foundation,USA2009-2014Pilot study in preparation for the Ganciclovir-Intravitreous versusSystemic-Cytomegalovirus Retinitis trail ( Pilot GIVCyT)A phase II prospective,randomized, multi-centre, diabetic macularedema dose ranging, comparator study evaluating the efficacy andsafety of PF-04523655 versus laser therapy (DEGAS)In-House StudiesEpidemic kerato-conjunctivitis study: Epidemiological profile, clinicalspectrum and molecular characterization of causative agents i.e.,microsporidia in kerato-conjunctivitisNeedling Study: Efficacy and safety of needling with adjunctive MMCinjection of failing or failed blebsVoricanozole study: Efficacy of 1% voricanozole compared to 5%Natamycin drops in the treatment of mycotic keratitisDr Annie Mathai National Institutes of 2010-2011Health, USADr Soumyava Basu Pfizer, USA 2010-2012Dr Savitri SharmaDepartment ofBiotechnology, IndiaGrant studyJuly 2010onwardsDr Vanita Pathak-Ray NA June 2010onwardsDr Savitri SharmaDr Prashant GargDr Merle FernandesNA November 2010onwards101Activity Report 2010–2011

Publications1. Akshaya R, Amrutha P, Nalamada S. A study onthe epidemiological and microbiological aspects ofkeratomycosis, Hyderabad, South India.Journal of Young Investigators 2010; 202. Ali MJ, Parsam VL, Honavar SG, Kannabiran C,Vemuganti GK, Reddy VAP. RB1 gene mutationsin retinoblastoma and its clinical correlation.Saudi J Ophthalmol 2010; 24:119-233. Ali MJ, Honavar SG. Optic nerve infiltration in relapseof acute lymphoblastic leukemia.Oman J Ophthalmol 2011; 4:404. Ali MJ, Honavar SG. Presentation of retinoblastoma inpregnancy. Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:5495. Ashar JN, Vaddavalli PK. Long-term results ofriboflavin ultraviolet – a corneal collagen cross-linking forkeratoconus in Italy: The Siena eye cross study.Am J Ophthalmol 2010;150:5886. Azmanov DN, Dimitrova S, Florez L, Cherninkova S,Draganov D, Saat R, Juan M, Arostegui JI, Ganguly S,Soodyall H, Chakrabarti S, Padh H, López-Nevot MA,Chernodrinska V, Anguelov B, Majumder PP, Angelova L,Kaneva R, Mackey DA, Tournev I, Kalaydjieva L. LTBP2and CYP1B1 mutations and associated ocular phenotypesin the Roma/Gypsy founder population.Eur J Hum Genet 2011; 19:326-337. Bagga B, Reddy AK, Garg P. Decreased susceptibilityto quinolones in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureus isolated from ocular infections at a tertiary eyecare centre. Br J Ophthalmol 2010; 94:1407-88. Basu S, Das TP, Padhi TR. Serous retinal detachmentand multiple retinal pigment epithelial detachments,following hemodialysis for multi-organ failure.Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:261-29. Basu S, Padhi TR. Tuberculous uveitis.Ophthalmology 2010; 117:1049-5010. Basu S, Das T. Pitfalls in the management ofTB-associated uveitis. Eye (Lond) 2010; 24:1681-411. Basu S, Sharma S, Kar S, Das T. DNA chipassisteddiagnosis of a previously unknown etiology ofintermediate uveitis – toxoplasma gondii.Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:535-712. Chakrabarti S, Ghanekar Y, Kaur K, Kaur I, MandalAK, Rao KN, Parikh RS, Thomas R, Majumder PP. Apolymorphism in the CYP1B1 promoter is functionallyassociated with primary congenital glaucoma.Hum Mol Genet 2010; 19:4083-9013. Chakrabarti S. SNPs in glucocorticoid responders.International Glaucoma Review 2010; 12:214. Chakrabarti S. Fine mapping locus on chromosome 2.International Glaucoma Review 2010; 11:415. Chaurasia S, Muralidhar R, Das S, Vaddavalli PK,Garg P, Gopinathan U. Pseudomonas keratitis withsatellite lesions: An unusual presentation.Br J Ophthalmol 2010; 94:1409-1016. Chhablani J, Majji AB, Caraza M. Retinal vein occlusionand low-dose fibrinolytic therapy. Retina 2010; 30:84017. Chhablani JK, Manusani U, Narayanan R. Severesarcoid vasculitis in a young patient.Arch Ophthalmol 2010; 128:116518. Chhablani JK, Narayanan R. Intravitreal bevacizumabinjection for central serous chorioretinopathy.Retina 2010; 30:1323-419. Christy B, Keeffe JE, Nirmalan PK, Rao GN. Arandomized controlled trial assessing the effectiveness ofstrategies delivering low vision rehabilitation: Design andbaseline characteristics of study participants.Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2010; 17:203-1020. Das M, Garg P. Lasik infectious keratitis.Ophthalmology 2011; 118:42521. Das M, Murthy SI. Drops for corneal neovascularization.Ophthalmology 2010;117:204222. Das S, Sahu SK, Sharma S, Nayak SS, Kar S. Clinicaltrial of 0.02% polyhexamethylene biguanide vs. placebo inthe treatment of microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis.Am J Ophthalmol 2010; 150:110-523. Das S, Sharma S, Kar S, Sahu SK, Samal B, MallickA. Is inclusion of Sabouraud dextrose agar essential forlaboratory diagnosis of fungal keratitis?Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:281-624. Das T, Basu S, Padhi TR. Trends and indications forintravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapyin India. Asian Journal of Ophthalmology 2010; 12:100-425. Das T, Jalali S, Narayanan R, Reddy R, Rath S.Chapter 9. Miscellaneous Macular Disorders. Laser &Phramacologic Therapies for macular diseases (A-ZSeries), Bonvision. Hong Kong. 2010; Pp147-5726. Das T, Jalali S, Vedantham V, Majji AB. Retinal vasculardisorders. In Clinical Ophthalmology: Medical & SurgicalApproach ed by Saxena S; New Delhi, JP Brothers, 201027. Das T, Pathengay A, Hussain N, Biswas J. Eales’disease: Diagnosis and management.Eye (Lond) 2010; 24:472-8228. Dave V, Narayanan R. Metamorphopsia assessmentbefore and after vitrectomy for macular hole.Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2010; 51:6895-629. Dave V, Narayanan R. Choroidal neovascularization inpathologic myopia. Am J Ophthalmol 2010; 150: 75230. Fernandes M, Reddy P, Shah GY. One-year outcomesof bilateral randomized prospective clinical trialcomparing photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) withmitomycin C (MMC) and laser in situ keratomileusis(LASIK). Br J Ophthalmol 2011; 95:43331. Fischer N, Narayanan R, Lowenstein A, KuppermannBD. Drug delivery to the posterior segment of the eye.Eur J Ophthalmol 2010; 21:20-632. Garg P. Diagnosis of microbial keratitis (Editorial).Br J Ophthalmol 2010; 94:961-233. Garg P, Chaurasia S, Vaddavalli PK, Muralidhar R,Mittal V, Gopinathan U. Microbial keratitis after LASIK.J Refract Surg 2010; 26:209-1634. Garg P. Work-up and treatment of corneal ulcer (Q27). In Curbside Consultation in Cornea ed by Price F P;Theofore, NJ, Slack, 2010Excellence | Equity | Efficiency102

35. Garg P, Jabbar A. Alcohol epitheliectomy withmechanical debridement in a case of granular cornealdystrophy with r555w homozygous mutation of TGF B1gene. Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:328-936. Garudadri CS, Garg P, Senthil S. Changes incorneal endothelial cells after Ahmed glaucoma valveimplantation: 2-year follow-up.Am J Ophthalmol 2010; 149:688-937. Garudadri CS, Rao HL, Senthil S. Three-year followupof the tube versus trabeculectomy study.Am J Ophthalmol 2010; 149:685-638. Garudadri C, Senthil S, Khanna RC, SannapaneniK, Rao HB. Prevalence and risk factors for primaryglaucomas in adult urban and rural populations in theAndhra Pradesh Eye Disease Study.Ophthalmology 2010; 117:1352-939. Garudadri CS, Senthil S, Rao HL. Evidence basedapproach to glaucoma management.Ind J Ophthalmol 2011; 59:S5-1040. Gothwal VK, Pesudovs K. Interactive, computerbased,self-reported, visual function questionnaire: ThePalmPilot-VFQ. Eye (Lond) 2010; 24:110341. Gothwal VK, Wright TA, Lamoureux EL, Pesudovs K.Measuring the outcomes of cataract surgery using theVisual Function Index – 14.J Cataract Refract Surg 2010; 36:1181-842. Gothwal VK, Wright TA, Elliott DB, Pesudovs K. Therefractive status and vision profile: Rasch analysis ofsubscale validity. J Refract Surg 2010; 26:912-543. Gothwal VK, Wright T, Lamoureux EL, Pesudovs K.Psychometric properties of visual functioning index usingRasch analysis. Acta Ophthamol 2010; 88:797-80344. Gothwal VK, Wright TA, Lamoureux EL, Pesudovs K.Multiplicative rating scales do not enable measurement ofvision-related quality of life. Clin Exp Optom 2011; 94:52-6245. Goyal J, Fernandes M, Shah S. Intracameralvoriconazole in the treatment of fungal endophthalmitisresulting from keratitis. Am J Ophthalmol 2010; 150:93946. Gupta A, Kekunnaya R, Ramappa M, VaddavalliPK. Safety profile of primary intraocular lens implantationin children below 2 years of age.Br J Ophthalmol 2011; 95:477-8047. Gupta A, Rani PK, Bagga B, Dore P, Mittal A, JalaliS. Bilateral Herpes Simplex-2 acute retinal necrosis withencephalitis in premature twins. JAAPOS 2010;14:541-348. Haller JA, Bandello F, Belfort R Jr, Blumenkranz MS,Gillies M, Heier J, Loewenstein A, Yoon YH, Jacques ML,Jiao J, Li XY, Whitcup SM; Ozurdex Geneva Study Group(includes Mathai A and Majji AB). Randomized, shamcontrolledtrial of dexamethasone intravitreal implant inpatients with macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion.Ophthalmology 2010; 117:1134-4649. Jalali S, Azad RV, Trehan HS, Dogra MR, Gopal L,Narendran V. Technical aspects of laser treatmentfor acute Retinopathy of Prematurity under topicalanaesthesia. Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:505-1950. Jalali S, Rani PK, Chhablani J. Management of pediatricretinal detachment. In Surgical Techniques in Ophthalmology:Pediatric Ophthalmic Surgery ed by Garg A, Alio JL; Jaypeebrothers, New Delhi, 2011. Pages 521-3610351. Javed Ali M, Honavar S. Ophthalmic disorders in adultlymphoma patients.Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2010; 17:39052. Kaur I, Rathi S, Chakrabarti S. Variations in TIMP3are associated with age-related macular degeneration.Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2010;107:E112-353. Kaur K, Mandal AK, Chakrabarti S. Primarycongenital glaucoma and the involvement of CYP1B.Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2011; 18:7-1654. Kekunnaya R, Bansal R, Vemuganti GK. Congenitallydysplastic inferior rectus muscle.J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2010; 47:e1-455. Kesarwani S, Murthy R, Vemuganti G. Reply.J AAPOS 2010;14:29156. Khanna R, Pujari S, Sangwan VS. Cataract surgery indeveloping countries. Curr Opin Ophthalmol 2011; 22:10-457. Khanna RC, Garudadri C. Incidence of post-cataractendophthalmitis at Aravind Eye Hospital.Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:56258. Kovai V, Rao GN, Holden B, Sannapaneni K,Bhattacharya SK, Khanna R. Comparison of patientsatisfaction with services of vision centres in rural areasof Andhra Pradesh, India. Ind J Ophthalmol. 2010; 58:407-1359. Kovai V, Rao GN, Holden BA, Krishnaiah S,Bhattacharya SK, Marmamula S. An estimate of patientcosts and benefits of new primary eye care modelutilization through vision centres in Andhra Pradesh,India. Asia Pac J Public Health 2010; 22:426-3560. Lei S, Iyengar S, Shan L, Cherwek DH, Murthy S, WongAM. GAPO syndrome: A case associated with bilateralinterstitial keratitis and hypothyroidism.Clin Dysmorphol 2010; 19:79-8161. Leite MT, Zangwill LM, Weinreb RN, Rao HL, Alencar LM,Sample PA, Medeiros FA. Effect of disease severity on theperformance of Cirrus spectral-domain OCT for glaucomadiagnosis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2010; 51:4104-962. Leite MT, Rao HL, Weinreb RN, Zangwill LM, BowdC, Sample PA, Tafreshi A, Medeiros FA. Agreementamong spectral-domain optical coherence tomographyinstruments for assessing retinal nerve fiber layerthickness. Am J Ophthalmol 2011; 151:85-9263. Majji AB, Bhatia K, Mathai A. Spontaneous bilateralperipapillary, subhyaloid and vitreous hemorrhage withsevere anemia secondary to idiopathic thrombocytopenicpurpura. Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 5:234-664. Mandal AK, Chakrabarti D. Update on congenitalglaucoma. Ind J Ophthalmol 2011; 59:S 148-5765. Manderwad GP, Gokul G, Kannabiran C, HonavarSH, Khosla S, Vemuganti GK. Hypomethylation of theDNMT3L promoter in ocular surface squamous neoplasia(OSSN). Arch Pathol Lab Med 2010; 134:1193-666. Mariappan I, Maddileti S, Savy S, Tiwari S, GaddipatiS, Fatima A, Sangwan VS, Balasubramanian D,Vemuganti GK. In vitro culture and expansion ofhuman limbal epithelial cells. Nat Protoc 2010; 5:1470-967. Meena M, Naik M, Ali MJ, Honavar SG. Invitedcommentary. A new non-incisional correction methodfor blepharoptosis.J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2010; 63:2012Activity Report 2010–2011

68. Mittal V, Mittal R, Sangwan VS. Successful Descemetstripping endothelial keratoplasty in congenital hereditaryendothelial dystrophy. Cornea 2010; 30:354-669. Mocherla S, Raman U, Holden B. Clinician-patientcommunication in a glaucoma clinic in India. Qual HealthRes 2011; 21: 429-4070. Muralidhar R, Vaddavalli PK, Chaurasia S. Latetraumatic flap slippage and tear at the superior hingeafter LASIK. Asian J Ophthalmol 2010; 12:42-671. Murthy R, Das T, Gupta A. Bilateral choroidal osteomawith optic atrophy. J AAPOS 2010; 14:438-4072. Naik MN, Ali MJ, Das S, Honavar SG. Non-surgicalmanagement of epiblepharon using hyaluronic acid gel.Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2010; 26:215-773. Naik VM, Naik MN, Goldberg RA, Smith TJ, Douglas RS.Immunopathogenesis of thyroid eye disease: Emergingparadigms. Surv Ophthalmol 2010; 55:215-2674. Narayanan R, Sinha A, Reddy RK, Krishnaiah S,Kuppermann BD. Faster visual recovery after 23-gaugevitrectomy compared with 20-gauge vitrectomy.Retina 2010; 30:1511-475. Narayanan R, Dave V. Microplasmin before vitrectomy.Ophthalmology 2011; 118:428-976. Ozkan J, Mandathara P, Krishna P, SankaridurgP, Naduvilath T, Wilcox MD, Holden B. Risk factorsfor corneal inflammatory and mechanical events withextended wear silicone hydrogel contact lenses.Optom Vis Sci 2010; 87:847-5377. Padhi TR, Basu S, Das T, Samal B. Optic disctuberculoma in a patient with miliary tuberculosis.Ocul Immunol Inflamm 2011; 19:67-878. Parveen S, Narayanan R, Sambhav K, Bhatia K.Bevacizumab compared with macular laser gridphotocoagulation for cystoid macular edema in branchretinal vein occlusion. Retina 2010; 30:1324-579. Pehere N, Jalali S, Mathai A, Naik M, Ramesh K.Inadvertant intraocular injection of Botulinum toxin A.J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2011; 48:e1-e380. Pehere NK, Ramappa RM. Refractive surgeryin children: Treatment options, outcomes, andcontroversies. Am J Ophthalmol 2010; 149:870-181. Pesudovs, K, Wright T, Gothwal VK. Visual disabilityassessment – valid measurement of activity limitation andmobility in cataract patients.Br J Ophthalmol 2010; 94:777-8182. Pesudovs K, Gothwal VK, Wright T, Lamoureux EL.Remediating serious flaws in the National Eye Institute-Visual Function Questionnaire.J Cataract Refract Surg 2010; 36:718-3283. Polisetti N, Chaitanya VG, Babu PP, Vemuganti GK.Isolation, characterization and differentiation potentialof rat bone marrow stromal cells.Neurol India. 2010; 58:201-884. Polisetti N, Agarwal P, Khan I, Kondaiah P, SangwanVS, Vemuganti GK. Gene expression profile ofepithelial cells and mesenchymal cells derived from limbalexplant culture. Mol Vis. 2010; 16:1227-4085. Prashant K, Singh SK, Kanungo R, Sharma S, Shashikala P,Joshi S, Jayachandran S, Correlation between genotypingExcellence | Equity | Efficiency104and antibiograms of clinical isolates of Pseudomonasaeruginosa from three different south Indian hospitals.Indian J Med Microbiol 2010; 28:130-786. Preeji MS, Rathi V, Srikanth D. Rose K lenses inkeratoconus – an Indian experience.Eye & Contact lens 2010; 36:220-287. Priyadarshini O, Biswas G, Biswas S, Padhi R, Rath S.Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in recurrent sebaceouscarcinoma of eyelid with orbital invasion and regionallymphadenopathy. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2010; 26:366-888. Ramachandran C, Patil RV, Sharif NA, Srinivas SP.Effect of elevated intracellular cAMP levels on actomyosincontraction in bovine trabecular meshwork cells. InvestOphthalmol Vis Sci 2011; 52:1474-8589. Rao HL, Zangwill LM, Weinreb RN, Sample PA, AlencarLM, Medeiros FA. Comparison of different spectraldomain optical coherence tomography scanning areas forglaucoma diagnosis. Ophthalmology 2010; 117:1692-990. Rao HL, Puttaiah NK, Babu JG, Maheshwari R, Senthil S,Garudadri CS. Agreement among three methods of opticdisc diameter measurement. J Glaucoma 2010; 19:650-491. Rao HL, Maheshwari R, Senthil S, Prasad KK,Garudadri CS. Phacotrabeculectomy withoutmitomycin C in primary angle-closure and open-angleglaucoma. J Glaucoma 2011; 20:57-6292. Rao HL, Kumar AU, Kumar A, Chary S, Senthil S,Vaddavalli PV, Garudadri CS. Evaluation of centralcorneal thickness measurement with RTVue spectraldomain optical coherence tomography in normalsubjects. Cornea 2011; 30:121-693. Rao HL, Kumar AU, Babu JG, Senthil S, GarudadriCS. Relationship between severity of visual field lossat presentation and rate of visual field progression inglaucoma. Ophthalmology 2011; 118:249-5394. Rao HL, Kumar AU, Babu JG, Kumar A, Senthil S,Garudadri CS. Predictors of normal optic nerve head,retinal nerve fiber layer and macular parameters measuredby spectral domain optical coherence tomograph.Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2011; 52:1103-1095. Rao HL, Leite MT, Weinreb RN, Zangwill LM, AlencarLM, Sample PA, Medeiros FA. Effect of disease severityand optic disc size on diagnostic accuracy of RTVuespectral domain Optical Coherence Tomograph inglaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2011; 52:1290-9696. Rao KN, Nagireddy S, Chakrabarti S. Complex geneticmechanisms in glaucoma: An overview.Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 59:S31-4297. Rao KN, Kaur I, Parikh RS, Mandal AK, ChandrasekharG, Thomas R, Chakrabarti S. Variations in NTF4,VAV2 and VAV3 genes are not involved with primaryopen angle and primary angle closure glaucomas in anIndian population. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2010; 51:4937-4198. Rath S, Sharma S, Vemuganti GK. Orbitalnocardiosis. Ind J Ophthalmol 2011; 59:16899. Rathi VM, Vyas SP, Vaddavalli PK, Sangwan VS,Murthy SI. Phototherapeutic keratectomy in paediatricpatients in India. Cornea 2010; 29:1109-12100. Reddy AK, Balne PK, Reddy RK, Mathai A, Kaur I.Loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for the

diagnosis of retinitis caused by herpes simplex virus-1.Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17:210-3101. Reddy AK, Balne PK, Reddy RK, Mathai A, Kaur I.Development and evaluation of loop-mediated isothermalamplification assay for the rapid and inexpensivedetection of cytomegalovirus DNA in vitreous specimensfrom suspected cases of viral retinitis.J Clin Microbiol 2010; 48:2050-2102. Reddy AK, Balne PK, Garg P, Sangwan VS, Das M,Krishna PV, Bagga B, Vemuganti GK, Dictyosteliumpolycephalum infection of human cornea.Emerg Infect Dis 2010; 16:1644-5103. Reddy AK, Balne PK, Gaje K, Garg P. PCR for thediagnosis and species identification of microsporidia inpatients with keratitis. Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17:476-8104. Reddy AK, Garg P, Kaur I. Spectrum andclinicomicrobiological profile of Nocardia keratitis causedby rare species of Nocardia identified by 16S rRNA genesequencing. Eye 2010; 24:1259-62105. Reddy AK, Garg P, Kaur I. Speciation and susceptibilityof Nocardia isolated from ocular infections.Clin Microbiol Infect 2010; 16:1168-71106. Roy A, Rath S, Das S, Vemuganti GK, Parulkar G.Penetrating sclerokeratoplasty in massive recurrentinvasive squamous cell carcinoma.Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg 2011; 27:e39-40107. Sachdeva V, Reddy P, Fernandes M, Shah S,Kekunnaya R. Refractive outcomes with secondaryintraocular lens implantation in children.J AAPOS 2010; 14:377-8108. Sahu AK, Narayanan R. Intravitreal ranibizumab,intravitreal ranibizumab with photodynamic therapy(PDT), and intravitreal triamcinolone with PDT for thetreatment of retinal angiomatous proliferation.Retina 2010; 30:981109. Sangwan VS, Gopinathan U, Garg P, Rao GN. Eyebanking in India: A road ahead. JIMSA 2010; 23:197-9110. Sangwan VS, Basu S. Antimicrobial properties ofamniotic membrane. Br J Ophthalmol 2011; 95:28-31111. Schwartz SG, Flynn HW Jr, Das T. Ocular infection:endophthalmitis. In Retinal Pharmacotherapy ed by NguyenQD et al; Oxford, Saunders Elsevier, 2010112. Seitz B, Das S, Sauer R, Hofmann-Rummelt C, BeckmannMW, Kruse FE. Simultaneous amniotic membrane patchin high-risk keratoplasty. Cornea 2011; 30:269-72113. Senthil S, Garudadri C, Khanna RC, SannapaneniK. Angle closure in the Andhra Pradesh Eye DiseaseStudy. Ophthalmology 2010; 117:1729-35114. Senthil S, Garudadri CS, Rao HL, Maheshwari R.Bilateral simultaneous acute angle closure caused bysulphonamide derivatives: A case series.Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:248-52115. Senthil S, Rathi V, Sekhar GC. Misleading Goldmannapplanation tonometry in a post-LASIK eye with interfacefluid syndrome. Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:333-5116. Shah GY, Ambatipudi S, Fernandes M, LakshmipathyM, Varma PVKS, Sachdeva V, Pathengay A.Evaluation of safety for bilateral same-day intravitrealinjections of antivascular endothelial growth factortherapy: correspondence. Retina 2010; 30:1325105117. Shah SG, Sharma S, Fernandes M, LakshmipathyM. Rapid detection of Acanthamoeba cysts in frozensections of corneal scrapings with Fungiflora Y.Br J Ophthalmol 2010; 94:1550-1118. Sharma S, Das S, Joseph J, Vemuganti GK, MurthyS. Microsporidial keratitis: Need for increased awareness.Surv Ophthalmol 2011; 56:1-22119. Sharma S, Rautaraya B, Kar S, Das S, Sahu SK. Areport on microbiological investigation of fungal keratitis.Orissa J of Ophthalmology 2010:16-9120. Sharma S. Ocular infections: research in India.Indian J Med Microbiol 2010; 28:91-4121. Shome D, Honavar SG, Raizada K, Raizada D. Implantand prosthesis movement after enucleation: A randomizedcontrolled trial. Ophthalmology 2010; 117:1638-44122. Sreejith RS, Reddy AK, Ganeshpuri SS, Garg P. Oestrusovis ophthalmomyiasis with keratitis.Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2010; 28:399-402123. Suma N, Jalali S, Reddy AK. Acute postoperativeendophthalmitis by Gemella haemolysans.Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:252-3124. Tejwani S, Murthy SI, Chandrasekhar G, Thomas R.Impact of a month-long training program on the clinicalskills of ophthalmology residents and practitioners.Ind J Ophthalmol 2010; 58:340-3125. Trehan HS, Sheth SS, Mathai A, Reddy RK, MoorthyRS. Diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.Retina 2010; 30:180-3126. Vaddavalli PK, Garg P, Sharma S, Sangwan S,Rao GN, Thomas R. Role of confocal microscopyin the diagnosis of fungal and Acanthamoeba keratitis.Ophthalmology 2011; 118:29-35127. Vemuganti GK, Sangwan VS. Interview: Afforabilityat cutting edge: stem cell therapy for ocular surfacereconstruction. Reg Med 2010; 5:337-40128. Vemuganti GK, Balla MMS, Tiwari S. Limbal stem cellsand corneal regeneration. In Application of flow cytometry instem cell research and tissue regeneration; Wiley-Blackwell, 2010129. Vendra VP, Balasubramanian D. Structural andaggregation behavior of the human gamma D- crystallinmutant E107A associated with congenital nuclearcataract. Mol Vis 2010; 16:2822-8130. 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PresentationsMohd Javed AliInternationalInvited speakerEmirates Ophthalmic Conference, Dubai. December 8-12, 2010Topic: Comprehensive approach to lacrimal evaluationNationalInvited speakerHyderabad Ophthalmic Association meeting, Hyderabad.April 2010Topics: Good DCR – tips and tricksEvaluation of watering eyeOculoplasty update meet, Maharashtra Ophthalmic Association,Latur, Maharashtra. August 2010Topics: Logical approach to orbital tumorsOverview of lid tumorsExternal DCR – simple tipsCME, Indian Council of Medical Research, Guwahati.September 2010Topic: Retinoblastoma: Clinical presentations and focal therapyOculoplasty CME 2010, Mamta Medical College, Khammam.October 2010Topics: Approaches to orbitMalignant lid tumorsExternal DCR – simple tipseye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topics: Histopathology of retinoblastoma following neoadjuvantchemotherapyRB1 mutations and its clinical correlanceInvited facultyTopics: Principles of chemotherapy and radiotherapyCNLDO and its managementSwinging lower lid approachExternal DCR: tips and tricksInvited speakerShankar Foundation meet, Shankara Foundation Hospital,Visakhapatnam. November 2010Topics: Are Grand Rounds still relevant?Clinical spectrum of retinoblastomaCME, Narayana Medical College, Nellore. December 2010Topics: Simplifying entropionTackling ectropionNellore Ophthalmic Association meeting, Nellore.December 2010Topics: Evaluation of orbitsOrbital surgeriesHow does retinoblastoma present?Invited faculty69 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Topic: Nasal endoscopy: Nuts and boltsHemalatha ArunachalamInternationalPaper presentation10 th International Conference on Low Vision, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. February 20-24, 2011Topic: Meeting the educational needs of children with visualimpairment – a study from IndiaBhupesh BaggaInternationalAmerican Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgerysymposium, San Diego, USA. March 25-29, 2011Free paperTopic: Endothelial failure after collagen cross-linkingPoster presentationTopics: Comparison of deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty andpenetrating keratoplasty in acanthamoeba keratitisOutcomes of cataract surgery in scleritisNationalInvited faculty61 st annual meeting of Delhi Ophthalmological Society, NewDelhi. April 16-18, 2010Topic: Decision making in non-infectious keratitisDeepak K BaggaInternationalCo-chair/ Free papers10 th International Conference on Low Vision, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. February 20-24, 2011Topics: Utility values in the visually impaired Indian populationSimulated experiences of visual impairment amongoptometry students and ophthalmology residentsNationalFree paper18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Assessing depression in persons with vision lossD BalasubramanianInternationalInvited speaker/Chair, session2 nd Eurasia Bio Conference, Russian Biotechnology Society,Moscow. April 12-15, 2010Invited speakerMIT and Genzyme Labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Boston, MA, USA. April 25, 2010The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), Cambridge, MA, USA.April 25, 2010Grand Rounds, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA.April 26, 2010Seminar, Wilmer Eye Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital,Baltimore, MD, USA. April 29, 2010Seminar, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.April 30, 2010Grand Rounds Seminar, University of Colorado Medical School,Colorado, USA. May 7, 2010Secretary GeneralOfficers Meeting, The Academy of Sciences for the DevelopingWorld (TWAS), Paris, France. July 26-27, 2010Invited speakerIndo-Danish Symposium, Odense University Hospital, Odense,Denmark. September 2-3, 2010ParticipantInauguration of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown,Lisbon, Portugal. October 4-8, 2010Asia-ARVO meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Excellence | Equity | Efficiency106

NationalInvited speakerDBT-sponsored training program, Administrative Staff Collegeof India, Hyderabad. June 2, 2010MemberAcademic Council Meeting, Tata Institute of FundamentalResearch, Mumbai. July 30, 2010Research Advisory Council Meeting, Centre for DNAFingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad. August 6-7, 2010Discussion on Synthetic Life: Myth & Reality, Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore. August 19, 2010Invited speakerGolden Jubilee celebrations, Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. September 12, 2010ChairXXIV LSRB meeting, Defence Research and DevelopmentOrganisation, New Delhi. September 15, 2010Invited speakerVISION 2020 workshop on Research for Global BlindnessPrevention, Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai.September 28-29, 2010MemberSelection Committee for Senior and Chair Professorshipsmeeting, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai.November 23, 2010Institutional Committee for Stem Cell Research and Therapymeeting, Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai. November 29, 2010Indian National Science Academy Selection Committee meeting,New Delhi. December 1, 2010Invited speakerConvocation Address, Jagadish Bose Centre for Science Talent,Kolkata. December 17, 2010Foundation Day Lecture, National Institute of Science Educationand Research, Bhubaneswar. December 28, 2010Chennai Chemistry Conference, Indian Institute of TechnologyMadras, Chennai. February 11, 2011Prof Amar Bhaduri Memorial Lecture, University of Calcutta,Kolkata. February 15, 2011Mellanby Oration, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow.February 17, 2011BioAsia 2011, Government of Andhra Pradesh, All India BiotechAssociation, Hyderabad. February 24, 2011MemberAssessment Committee meeting, National Brain ResearchCentre, Manesar, Haryana. February 25, 2011ChairSAAC meeting, Christian Medical College, Vellore.February 28, 2011Sayan BasuNationalInvited facultyeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topic: Symposium on ocular surface disease107Soumyava BasuNationalInvited facultyRetnet India annual meeting, New Delhi. April 9-10, 2010Invited speakerDiabetes 2010 – CME, IMA Academy of Medical Specialities,Bhubaneswar. May 31, 2010Topic: Diabetic retinopathy – current trends in managementSymposium on Uveitis, eye2future, Andhra PradeshOphthalmological Society annual meeting, Hyderabad.October 1-3, 201010 th annual meeting of Uveitis Society of India/1 st InternationalWorkshop on Ocular Tuberculosis, Chandigarh.October 27-31, 2010Topic: Tubercular retinal vasculitisFUSION 2010, a joint meeting of Orissa State OphthalmologicalSociety (OSOS) and Eastern India Zonal OphthalmologicalCongress (EIZOC), Bhubaneswar. November 13-14, 2010Topic: OCT in retinal diseaseShrikant BharadwajInternationalPoster presentationAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annualmeeting, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 2-6, 2010Topics: Impact of lens-induced anisometropia on accommodativeresponses to step and ramp stimuli in adultsComparison of a novel cell phone-based refractiontechnique (NETRA) with objective clinical retinoscopyCharacteristics of pupil responses during human visualdevelopmentAsia-ARVO Meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Topic: Inter- and intra-subject variability of luminance-slopecalibration in eccentric photorefractionNationalInvited speaker18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Characteristics of pupil responses during human visualdevelopmentElite School International Conference on Optometry andVision Science (EVIOC 2010), Sankara Netralaya, Chennai.August 12-14, 2010Topic: Neural control of ocular accommodationUS-India Network Enabled Research Collaboration Workshop,US National Science Foundation and Indian Education andResearch Network (ERNET), New Delhi. December 5, 2010Topic: Fostering optometric training through web-basedcollaborations.Sunita ChaurasiaInternationalAmerican Academy of Ophthalmology meeting and SubspecialtyDay program, Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Poster presentationTopic: Neonatal keratitis: A 5-year experience at a tertiarycare centerFree paperTopic: Outcomes of DSEK in pediatric eyesActivity Report 2010–2011

2 nd Asia Cornea Society biennial scientific meeting, Kyoto,Japan. December 1-3, 2010Invited facultyTopics: Outcomes of DSEK in failed penetrating graftsLong-term outcomes of penetrating keratoplasty aftercultivated limbal epithelial transplantation in eyes withchemical injuryPoster presentationTopics: Clinical profile of graft detachment and outcomes ofrebubbling after DSEKNeonatal keratitis: A 5-year experience at a tertiarycare centerNationalPoster presentation18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topics: Neonatal keratitis: A 5-year experience at a tertiarycare centerOutcomes of DSEK in paediatric eyeseye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Invited facultyTopics: Management of Descemet’s membrane detachmentfollowing cataract surgeryEvaluation of dry eyesFree paperTopics: Outcomes of DSEK in failed graftsConjunctival tuberculosis – clinical dilemmaLong-term outcomes of penetrating keratoplasty aftercultivated limbal epithelial transplantationPoster presentationTopics: Outcomes of rebubbling for posterior graft detachmentafter DSEKNeonatal keratitis – case seriesOutcomes of DSEK in paediatric eyesSubhabrata ChakrabartiInternationalParticipantBoard of Governors meeting, Information, Planning and Exchangemeeting, Associate Advisory Board meeting, World GlaucomaAssociation, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. April 30 – May 3, 2010Invited speakerAnnual meeting of Association for Research in Vision andOphthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 1-6, 2010Topic: The susceptibility of extracellular matrix-related genevariants in age-related macular degenerationParticipantFirst strategic meeting of Indo-Tunisian joint research program,Tunis, Tunisia. June 21-26, 2010Invited speakerInstitut Salah Aziz, Tunis, Tunisia. June 25, 2010Topic: Molecular and functional genomics of primary congenitalglaucomaCentre for Eye Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,Australia. October 6, 2010Topic: Molecular genomics of primary congenital glaucomaParticipantFifth strategic meeting of Indo-Australian joint researchprogram, Melbourne, Australia. October 4-8, 2010Organising memberAnnual meeting of The Academy of Sciences for the DevelopingWorld (TWAS), Hyderabad. October 18-22, 2010Invited speaker1 st Asia-Pacific Joint Glaucoma Congress, Taipei, Taiwan.December 5, 2010Topic: What do glaucoma genes tell us about glaucomapathogenesisAsia-ARVO Meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Topic: Molecular genetics of age-related macular degenerationin the Indian scenarioNationalInvited speaker18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, WestBengal. December 23, 2010Topic: What do glaucoma genes tell us about glaucomapathogenesisAnnual meeting of Indian Association of CommunityOphthalmology (INACO), Kolkata. December 26, 2010Topic: Molecular genetics of age-related macular degeneration:The Indian scenarioAnnual meeting of International Society of Genetic Eye Diseasesand Retinoblastoma (ISGEDR), Bangalore. January 14-16, 2011Topic: Molecular mechanisms in primary congenital glaucoma:Recent trends and future prospectsUGC-SAP meeting on Genomics of complex diseases, GuruNanak Dev University, Amritsar. March 16, 2011Topic: Genomics of a complex blinding disorderBeula ChristyInternationalPoster presentationAnnual meeting of Association for Research in Vision andOphthalmology (ARVO), Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 1-6, 2010Topic: Outcomes of low vision rehabilitation using theEffectiveness of Low Vision Rehabilitation Training(ELVRT) instrumentSujata DasInternationalPoster presentationWorld Cornea Congress VI, The Cornea Society, Boston, USA.April 7-9, 2010Topic: Fusarium keratitis at a tertiary eye care centre in IndiaAmerican Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgerysymposium, Boston, USA. April 10-14, 2010Poster presentationTopic: Comparison of techniques of measuring anteriorchamber depth and corneal curvature in Indian eyesInvited facultyTopic: Clinico-microbiological profile of wound infectionfollowing sutureless cataract surgeryAnnual meeting of Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Beijing, China. September 16-20, 2010Topic: Clinical applications of in vivo confocal microscopy infungal keratitis26 th Congress of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Sydney, Australia. March 20-24, 2011Topics: In-vivo confocal microscopy of fungal keratitisClinching exotic organisms in the laboratoryThe rise of microsporidial keratitisChallenges in the management and diagnosis of fungalkeratitisExcellence | Equity | Efficiency108

NationalInvited speakerAnnual conference of Indian Association of MedicalMicrobiologists (Orissa Chapter), L V Prasad Eye Institute,Bhubaneswar. August 8, 2010Topic: Infections of the anterior segment of the eye and orbitInvited facultyCME on Eye Banking, Indira Gandhi Hospital, Rourkela, Orissa.August 24, 2010Topic: Eye banking – giving the gift of sightInvited speakerCME on infective keratitis, Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital,New Delhi. October 29, 2010Topic: Microsporidia: The new bug in townFUSION 2010, a joint meeting of Orissa State OphthalmologicalSociety and Eastern India Zonal Ophthalmological Congress,Bhubaneswar. November 13-14, 2010Topic: IOL choice must match my patients’ need!Free paper69 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Topics: Streptococcus pneumoniae keratitis: Fortified antibioticsor fluoroquinolones?Refractive outcome of cataract surgery using partialcoherence interferometry and ultrasound biometryTaraprasad DasInternationalDiscussantFluidics in modern vitreous surgery, Expert Round Tablemeeting, Ophthalmology Times Europe, Zurich. April 2010Poster presentationAnnual meeting of Association for Research in Vision andOphthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 1-6, 2010Topic: Change in the retinal laser practice pattern withinduction of pattern scan laser system in a tertiary eyecare institute in IndiaInvited speakerAsia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, Beijing, China.September 16-20, 2010Topics: Anti-angiogenesis in diabetic macular edemaRetina laser training and capacity buildingX biennial SAARC Academy of Ophthalmology andOphthalmology Society of Bangladesh meeting, Dhaka,Bangladesh. March 4-8, 2011Topics: Are EVS recommendations for post cataract surgeryendophthalmitis management relevant a decade and halfafter its first publication?Is anti VEGF treatment cost effective in developingcountries?26 th Congress of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Sydney, Australia. March 20-24, 2011Topics: Post cataract surgery endophthalmitis managementDiabetic retinopathy burden in IndiaAnti VEGF in AMDNationalInvited faculty61 st annual meeting of Delhi Ophthalmological Society, NewDelhi. April 16-18, 2010Topic: Training of ophthalmic personnel – models andimplementation109Eastern India Zonal Ophthalmological Congress mid-yearconference, Disha Hospital, Barrackpore, West Bengal.June 19-20, 2010Topic: Pascal18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Poster presentationTopic: Is 23g vitrectomy cost effective in developing countriesPaper presentationTopics: Should residency program in India focus more on skilltransfer?Older antibiotics are still good against methicillinresistant staphylococcal ocular infectionsInvited speakerRetina 2010, Aravinda Eye Hospital, Vijayawada. August 22, 2010Topics: Diabetic macular edema, laser, steroid, anti VEGFEndophthalmitis – management guidelinesLive Surgery & Symposium, Suryodaya Eye Hospital, CalcuttaMedical Research Foundation, Kolkata. August 29, 2010Topics: Paradigm shift in vitreous surgeryViretoretinal fellowshipSN-ARVO Summer Eye Research Conference, SankaraNethralaya, Chennai. September 9-11, 2010Topics: Diabetic retinopathy: from bench to populationLinkage and partnership in diabetic retinopathy screeningCME on Retina Vitreous, Radhatri Nethralaya, Madras.September 12, 2010Topic: Management of endophthalmitisInternational Symposium on Community Ophthalmology,Indian Association of Community Ophthalmology, Kolkata.October 29-31, 2010Topics: Public private partnership in centre of excellence in eyecareLinkages and partnership in diabetic retinopathyscreeningChief guest/Invited speakerChhattisgarh State Ophthalmological Society annual meeting,Raipur. January 8-9, 2011Topics: Endophthalmitis management a decade and half afterthe first EVS publicationParadigm shift in AMD managementManagement of diabetic retinopathy beyond the ETDRSrecommendationsInvited facultyDiabetic Retinopathy & Macula, Suraj Eye Institute, Nagpur.March 5-6, 2011Topics: World & India burden of diabetes & diabetic retinopathyEales’ disease, diagnosis & managementMerle FernandesInternational28 th Congress of the European Society of Cataract & RefractiveSurgeons, Paris, France. September 4-8, 2010Free paperTopic: Outcome of Excimer laser with MEL 80 for low to highmyopia with and without iris registrationPoster presentationTopics: Intracameral Amphotericin B for recurrence of fungalkeratitis after therapeutic penetrating keratoplastyExaggerated sub-epithelial fibrosis presenting as a thickmembrane following anterior stromal punctures forbullous keratopathyActivity Report 2010–2011

X biennial SAARC Academy of Ophthalmology andOphthalmology Society of Bangladesh meeting, Dhaka,Bangladesh. March 4-8, 2011Chief Instructor/Co-instructorTopics: Allergic eye disease: Pathogenesis & introduction toclinical typesShield ulcerAll that itches is not allergyInfections keratitis: Common presentations ofuncommon organismsSurgical management of bacterial keratitisHSV Keratitis: HSV keratitis in children, the spectrumInvited speakerTopics: Which PK to pick up?Keratoprosthesis: an introductionPediatric penetrating keratoplasty: A viable option indeveloping countries?LASIK basics before you proceedThin cornea: What next?NationalOrganising Secretary/Host facultyThe Bug Stops Here, seminar on Corneal Infections andInflammations, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Visakhapatnam.November 20-21, 2010Topics: All that itches is not allergySurgical management of bacterial keratitisPathogenesis of HSV keratitisMulti-drug resistant Gm negative bacterial keratitisInvited speakerWarangal Ophthalmic Association meeting, Warangal.December 2010Topics: Phakic intraocular lensesManagement of microbial keratitisOrganising Secretary/Host facultyConcepts and Controversies: Cataract and Refractive Surgerymeeting, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Visakhapatnam.February 26-27, 2011Topics: Get in the groovePhakic ICLs: To do or not to do?Subluxated cataract managed with modified Cionni RingPrashant GargInternationalWorld Cornea Congress VI, The Cornea Society, Boston, USA.April 7-9, 2010Invited speakerTopic: Trends in Infectious keratitis in developing nationsPaper presentationTopic: Deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty in macular cornealdystrophy: Visual outcomes & complicationsInvited speaker/Co-chair, sessionAsia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, Beijing, China.September 16-20, 2010Topics: Emerging trends in bacterial and parasitic keratitis in IndiaIs post-cataract endophthalmitis or the rise? Globalupdate on epidemiologyBlebitis and endophthalmitis with glaucoma surgeryInvited speaker/facultyAnnual meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology,Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Topics: New treatment for atypical fungal and parasitic ocularinfectionsRecent advances in diagnosis and management of fungalkeratitisRole of confocal microscopy in microbial keratitisInvited facultyXVI International Course of Cornea & Refractive Surgery,Cornea Society of Mexico, Cancun, Mexico. October 28-31,2010Topics: Anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) – experiencewith anterior stromal pathologiesDSAEK simple procedure – think twicePhaco in eyes with radial keratotomyKeratoconus with VKC, a therapeutic challengeMycotic infections, diagnosis and treatmentSplit in Descemet membrane during big bubble deepanterior lamellar keratoplastyBubble or no bubble – how to complete deep anteriorlamellar keratoplastyDALK in microbial keratitis: Experience in AcanthamoebaKeratitisInvited speaker/Moderator, sessionAsia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology meeting, Sydney,Australia. March 20-24, 2011Topics: Cornea & external eye disease: My surgical approach toDSEKChallenges in microbial keratitis – Asia v/s rest of theworldFungal keratitis – a unique challenge for Asia Pacific regionChallenges and progress in ophthalmic education in IndiaNationalInvited facultyCME, Gombai Netralaya, Neemuch. May 2, 2010Topics: Work-up of a case of corneal ulcerPathophysiology of fungal keratitis and its implications inmanagementRecent advances in management of microbial keratitisLamellar corneal surgery – history repeats itselfNarayanam CME, Kerala Ophthalmic Society, Kochi.August 29, 2010Topics: Medical management of microbial keratitisPathophysiology of fungal keratitisMicrosporidiosisLamellar surgery – why, when, and howCorneal transplantation – what I must knowEye banking – quality controlseye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Live surgeryTopic: Phacoemulsification under topical anesthesiaInvited speakerTopics: Corneal infections – Paradigm for surgical managementChallenges and emerging trends in management ofcorneal infectionsIn-vivo confocal microscopyInfection of suture-less wound of cataract surgeryDALK for microbial keratitisPanel discussion – premium IOLsUsha GopinathanInternationalInvited faculty49 th annual meeting of Eye Bank Association of America, SouthCarolina, USA. June 2-5, 2010ParticipantExecutive Management Program – High Potentials LeadershipProgram, Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. June 6-11, 2010Excellence | Equity | Efficiency110

Invited facultySightLife meeting, Seattle, USA. June 12-15, 2010Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester, New York, USA.June 16-23, 2010The 2 nd Asia Cornea Society Biennial Scientific Meeting, Kyoto,Japan. December 1-3, 2010NationalInvited facultySymposium on Challenges and Current Status in Eye Banking/EyeDonation, M K International Eye Bank, Indore. May 2, 2010VISION 2020: The Right to Sight – India, National Workshopto prepare an ‘Advocacy roadmap for eye care for India’, NewDelhi. May 13-14, 2010ParticipantWorkshop on Evidence based management practices, LionsAravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology, Madurai.October 4-5, 2010Invited facultyVISION 2020: The Right to Sight – India. World Sight Day2010 “Countdown to 2020”, a two-day national event, Mumbai.October 13-14, 2010ParticipantManagement Development Program on Accounting and Financefor Non Finance Hospital Administrators, Parama Health CareP Ltd (Chennai), Hyderabad. November 12-14, 2010Invited facultyCME on Eye Banking, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi. December 11, 2010Vijaya K GothwalInternationalInvited speakerThe World Ophthalmology Congress, Berlin, Germany.June 5-9, 2010NationalCourse Convenor/In-house facultyLow vision Awareness Program (LAP), LVPEI, Hyderabad.April 16-18, 2010Free paper18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Invited speakerElite School International Conference on Optometry andVision Science (EVIOC 2010), Sankara Netralaya, Chennai.August 12-14, 2010Course Convenor/In-house facultyLow vision Awareness Program (LAP), LVPEI, Hyderabad.September 27-28, 2010Amit GuptaInternationalPaper presentation26 th Congress of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Sydney, Australia. March 20-24, 2011Topic: Exotropic Duane Retraction syndromeNationalInvited facultyeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 201011169 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Paper presentationTopic: Astigmatism in pediatric cataract surgery with differentincisionsPoster presentationTopic: Inferior mesodermal agenesis: A rare entityVideo presentationTopic: Pediatric cataract surgerySantosh G HonavarInternationalInvited facultyAmerican Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and ReconstructiveSurgery Scientific Symposium, Chicago, USA.October 13-14, 2010Annual meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology,Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Invited faculty/Chair, Program Committee26 th Congress of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Sydney, Australia. March 20-24, 2011NationalInvited Faculty/Chair61 st annual meeting of Delhi Ophthalmological Society, NewDelhi. April 16-18, 2010Organizing Secretary/FacultyEye-PEP 2010 (Postgraduate Education Program), L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. September 21-26, 2010Organizer/Chair/Facultyeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Organizer/FacultyICO Course for Residency Program Directors, L V Prasad EyeInstitute, Hyderabad. October 4-5, 2010Invited faculty/Chair21 st annual meeting of Oculoplastics Association of India,Mumbai. November 19-21, 2010Annual meeting of International Society of Genetic Eye Diseasesand Retinoblastoma (ISGEDR), Bangalore. January 14-16, 2011Invited facultyChrysalis 2011, Sankara Netralaya, Chennai.January 16-17, 2011Subhadra JalaliInternationalPoster presentationAnnual meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology,Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Topic: Influence of birth weight and gestational age in ROPamong multiple pregnanciesInvited speaker5 th Asia Pacific Vitreoretinal Society meeting, Singapore.November 19-21, 2010Topic: Non-ROP neonatal retinal diseases – presentations andmanagementAsia-ARVO meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Topic: Electroretinographic characterization of rodmonochromatismActivity Report 2010–2011

10 th biennial conference of SAARC Academy of Ophthalmology,Dhaka, Bangladesh. March 5-8, 2011Topic: Setting up of a ROP screening centreIslamia Eye Hospital, Dhaka. March 8-10, 2011Visiting ProfessorTopic: Current guidelines for ROP screening in developingcountriesInvited speakerCombined meeting for Neonatologists and Ophthalmologists,Topic: ROP screening and the way to goNationalInvited speakerNational Retina Advisory Board meeting, Allergan, Chennai.May 30, 2010Topic: Pathogenesis in retinal vein obstructionsCME for postgraduates, Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital, Hyderabad.July 28, 2010Topic: Understanding clinical visual electrophysiology18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topics: Aquatic aeromonas in eye infections – 5 years’ reviewRefractive outcome of simultaneous silicone oil andcataract removal with intraocular lens implantation(combined surgery)Changes in the thickness (inner & outer retinal layers)of retina in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP)Molecular genetic analysis of Leber’s congenitalamaurosis (LCA) in Indian patientsMolecular genetic analysis of Norrie Diseasepseudoglioma gene in FEVR patients and Indian ROPbabiesCase series of term babies presenting with FEVR within45 days of lifeCME for pediatricians and ophthalmologists, OphthalmicSociety of Varanasi, Varanasi. September 19, 2010Topic: Retinopathy of prematurity: Practical guidelineseye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topic: Current strategies in ROP69 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Topics: Current guidelines for ROP screeningCurrent guidelines for management of familial exudativevitreoretinopathyChitra KannabiranInternationalPoster presentationAnnual meeting of Association for Research in Vision andOphthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 1-6, 2010Invited speakerGenetics symposium, Asia-ARVO meeting on Research inVision and Ophthalmology, Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Topic: Homozygosity screening of families with autosomalrecessive retinitis pigmentosa by SNP arraysNationalInvited speakerVasavi Medical and Research Centre, Hyderabad, June 19, 2010Topic: Genetics of hereditary retinal degenerationsChair, free paper session18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Judge, poster sessionSt Ann’s College, Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad. August 18, 2010Invited speakerAnnual meeting of International Society for Genetic EyeDisorders and Retinoblastoma, Bangalore. January 14-16, 2011Topics: Mapping of a novel locus for ADRPIn vitro expression and localization of human GJA8/connexin 50 mutants associated with congenitalhereditary cataractsInderjeet KaurInternationalInvited speakerXIX International Society for Eye Research meeting, Montreal,Canada. July 18-23, 2010Topic: Biomarker identification in POAG: A preliminaryexperience from an Indian cohortCentre for Eye Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,Australia. October 8, 2010Topic: A molecular genetic study of retinopathy of prematurity21 st general meeting of The Academy of Sciences for theDeveloping World (TWAS), Hyderabad. October 19-22, 2010Topic: Genetics of retinopathy of prematurity: A potentiallyblinding disorder in pre-term babiesNationalOrganizing secretary18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Invited speakerRecent advances in ocular genetics and gene therapy, NarayanaNethralaya, Bangalore. December 14, 2010Topic: Genetics of age related macular degeneration: an updateScientific organizerMahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and SocialAction, Institute of Genetics, Hyderabad. December 2010Topic: Genetics of age related macular degenerationInvited speakerInternational Society of Genetic Eye Diseases meeting,Bangalore. January 14-15, 2011Topic: Genetics of retinopathy of prematurity: A potentiallyblinding disorder in pre-term babiesUGC-SAP meeting on Genomics of complex diseases, GuruNanak Dev University, Amritsar. March 16, 2011Topic: Molecular mechanisms and risk assessment in a complexage-related eye diseaseRamesh KekunnayaInternationalInvited facultyResearch Seminar, Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, USA.May 14, 2010Topic: Effect of strabismus surgery on Torticollis caused bycongenital superior oblique palsy in childrenAnnual meeting of Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Beijing, China. September 16-20, 2010Topic: Strabismus surgery under topical anesthesiaAnnual meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology,Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Topics: Comprehensive approach to pediatric cataract surgeryComprehensive approach to strabismus surgeryPoster presentationTopic: Effect of strabismus surgery in congenital SOPExcellence | Equity | Efficiency112

International Ophthalmology Conference, NHG InstituteSuntec, Singapore. November 16-18, 2010Topics: Congenital cranial dysinnervations disordersPosterior capsular management in pediatric cataractsurgeryInvited faculty/Moderator/Chair102 years’ celebrations of Cicendo Eye Hospital, Bandung,Indonesia. January 7-9, 2011Topics: Evaluation of a case of nystagmusStrabismus surgery under topical anaesthesiaInferior oblique surgeriesCongenital optic disc anomaliesWhat’s new in amblyopiaAnnual meeting of American Association for PediatricOphthalmology and Strabismus, San Diego, USA.March 30 – April 3, 2011Invited speakerTopic: Risk factors for consecutive exotropia after verticalrectus transposition for esotropic Duane’s retractionsyndromePoster presentationTopics: Surgery for bilateral esotropic Duane’s retractionsyndrome: Indications and outcomesSurgical outcomes in partially accommodative esotropicDuane syndromeMedial rectus recession following vertical rectustransposition in esotropic Duane’s retraction syndromeNationalInvited facultyeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topic: What’s new and important in 2010?Strabismus Society of India annual meeting, Jaipur.December 18-19, 2010Topic: Strabismus surgery under topical anaesthesiaInvited faculty/Video presentation69 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Topics: IOL implantation in childrenComparing astigmatism in pediatric cataract surgery viacorneal vs scleral tunnel incisionInferior oblique surgeriesInvited facultyPostgraduate Education program, M M Joshi Eye Hospital,Hubli. February 26-27, 2011CME, Mysore Medical College, Mysore. March 23, 2011Siddharth KesarwaniNationalInvited faculty61 st annual meeting of Delhi Ophthalmological Society, NewDelhi. April 16-18, 2010Topic: Ocular myasthenia: A diagnostic graveyardIndian Association of Pediatrics meeting, Sundargarh, Orissa.May 21, 2010Topic: Pediatric ophthalmology: Myths and truthsOrganising Secretary/Host facultyNeonatal Ophthalmology meeting, L V Prasad Eye Institute,Bhubaneswar. July 3, 2010Topic: Congenital cataract and management issues113Invited facultyStrabismus Society of India annual meeting, Jaipur.December 18-19, 2010Topics: Ocular myastheniaAlternative management of amblyopia69 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Topics: Surgical management of double elevator palsyManagement of end-stage corneal diseaseRohit KhannaInternationalInvited speaker28 th Congress of the European Society of Cataract & RefractiveSurgeons, Paris, France. September 4-8, 2010Topics: Blindness in developing countries, prevention andtreatmentThe L V Prasad model for prevention and treatment ofblindness in IndiaPravin V KrishnaInternationalInvited speakerWorld Cornea Congress VI, The Cornea Society, Boston, USA.April 7-9, 2010Invited speaker/Poster/Video presentationAmerican Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgerysymposium, Boston, USA. April 10-14, 2010Invited speakerEye Bank Association of America, Cornea Society FallSymposium, Chicago, Il, USA. October 15, 2010Invited facultyAnnual meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology,Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 201033 rd Inter-American Course of Ophthalmology, CURSO 2010,Miami, Fl, USA. October 25, 2010S KrishnaiahInternationalGuest speakerEmergency Medical Treatment and Wound InternationalForum, International 1 st Global Trauma Forum, Chongqing,China. August 21-22, 2010Topic: Ocular trauma in a rural population of southern IndiaInvited speakerAsia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Congress 2011, Sydney,Australia. March 20-24, 2011Topic: Risk factors for age-related macular degeneration:Findings from the Andhra Pradesh Eye Disease Studyin south IndiaB LakshmiNationalInvited speaker/Co-chair, session35 th All India Optometry Conference, Jaipur.January 28-30, 2011Topic: Changes in thickness of retina in patients with retinitispigmentosa (RP)Activity Report 2010–2011

Ajit Babu MajjiNationalChair, session/Invited speakerSymposium on Diabetic Retinopathy, Dr Thakor Bai V Patel EyeInstitute, Baroda. April 11, 2010Topics: Diabetic retinopathy screening: Where do we standtoday?Upcoming trends in surgical management of diabeticretinopathyInvited speaker61 st annual meeting of Delhi Ophthalmological Society, NewDelhi. April 16-18, 2010Topics: Role of general ophthalmologist in ARMDProliferative diabetic retinopathy with combined retinaldetachmenteye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topics: Macular edemaManagement of posterior dislocation of nucleusPost-operative endophthalmitis: Interventions afterinitial managementChair, session/Invited speakerNorth Zone Ophthalmic Society Meeting, Mussoorie,Uttaranchal. October 22-24, 2010Topics: Diabetic retinopathy – challenges aheadGuidelines for prophylactic treatment of peripheralretinal lesionsInvited speakerKarnataka State Ophthalmic Society annual conference, Udipi,Karnataka. October 29-31, 2010Topics: Recent advances in VR techniques & enzymatic vitrectomyFundus fluorescein angiography – interesting casesBio-ethics conference, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi. November 18-20, 2010Topic: Procedures & checklists of an Ethics CommitteeDr Gullapalli Venkateswar Rao OrationGuntur Ophthalmic Association meeting, Guntur.November 20, 2010Topic: Diabetic retinopathy challenges aheadInvited speakerKerala State Ophthalmic Society annual conference, Kochi.November 26-28, 2010Topics: Current concepts in management of diabetic retinopathyManagement of fungal endophthalmitisOrganising secretary/Invited speakerVitreo Retinal Society of India annual conference, Mysore,Karnataka. December 2-4, 2010Topic: Diabetic retinopathy: Challenges aheadJudge, session/Invited faculty69 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Topics: Instruction Course on FFAAdvances in macular surgeryTamponade agents: My choiceAcute endophthalmitis – ApproachAnil K MandalInternationalDiscussantIndo-Tunisian Project on Genetics of Primary CongenitalGlaucoma, Institut Salah Aziz, Tunis, Tunisia. June 21-26, 2010American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting and SubspecialtyDay program, Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Invited facultyTopics: Etiology & management of neovascular glaucoma in 2010Complications following glaucoma filtering surgery:Face them boldly, manage them efficientlyPoster presentationTopic: Surgical outcome of primary combined trabeculectomytrabeculotomyin glaucoma with Sturge-Weber SyndromeNationalInvited facultySuryodaya Glaucoma Update, Suryodaya Eye Centre, CalcuttaMedical Research Institute, Kolkata. September 12, 2010Topics: Live surgery – trabeculectomy with trabeculotomyphaco-trabeculectomyTrabeculectomyTwenty years of trabecutlectomy with trabeculotomySICS trabeculectomyeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Invited speaker/Chair, sessionTopic: An overview of the management of the pediatric glaucomaVideo presentationTopic: 20 years of comprehensive care for children withcongenital glaucomaInvited faculty/Moderator1 st International meeting on Community Ophthalmology, IndianAssociation of Community Ophthalmology, Kolkata.October 29-31, 2010Keynote address: Congenital glaucoma5 th International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery, InternationalAssociation of Glaucoma Surgeons, New Delhi.November 11-13, 2010Video presentationTopic: Primary combined trabeculotomy-trabeculectomy in achild of infantile glaucoma with acute hydropsInvited facultyTopics: Long-term outcome of trabeculotomy-trabeculectomyin primary congenital glaucomaPediatric glaucoma: Our combined experience20 th annual conference of Glaucoma Society of India, NewDelhi. November 14, 201069 th annual conference of All India Ophthalmological Society,Ahmedabad. February 3-6, 2011Free paperTopic: Surgical outcome of early onset glaucoma in Axenfeld-Rieger’s (AR) SyndromeVideo presentationTopics: Twenty years of comprehensive care for children withcongenital glaucomaSurgical management of a complicated cataract followingtrabeculectomy in an 85-year-old patientChief instructorTopic: Holistic care for children with congenital glaucomaInvited speakerAwareness program on glaucoma, Developmental Authority ofShantiniketan and Sriniketan, Bolpur, West Bengal.February 18, 2011Excellence | Equity | Efficiency114

Indumathi MariappanNationalFree paper18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Derivation and characterization of Induced PluripotentStem Cells (iPSCs)Invited speaker43 rd annual conference of Indian Pharmacological Society(IPS-2010) & International Symposium on Pharmacology& Translational Research, National Institute of Nutrition,Hyderabad. December 13-16, 2010Topic: Stem cells for ocular therapySrinivas MarmamulaInternationalPaper presentationWorld Congress on Refractive Errors & World Congress onOptometric Education, Durban, South Africa.September 20-22, 2010Topic: Rapid Assessment of Refractive Errors (RARE)NationalInvited speakerElite School of Optometry International Conference onOptometry and Vision Science (EVIOC 2010), SankaraNetralaya, Chennai. August 12-14, 2010Topics: Role of optometry school in public healthBarriers for uptake of services for refractive error andpresbyopiaCommunity Ophthalmology Society of India meeting, Venu EyeInstitute and Research Centre, New Delhi.November 26-27, 2010Topic: LVPEI initiatives in community eye careAnnie MathaiInternationalInvited speaker26 th Congress of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Sydney, Australia. March 20-24, 2011NationalInvited speaker2 nd Retnet India meeting, New Delhi. April 9-10, 2010Topic: Intraocular lymphomas – masquerade syndromeThe South-East Zonal meeting of the Allergan National RetinaBoard, Hyderabad. June 13, 2010Topic: Retinal vein occlusion – treatment landscapeAMD meeting, L V Prasad Eye Institute & Novartis, Hyderabad.July 25, 2010Topic: Anti-VEGF monotherapy for AMDeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topics: Photocoagulation and its follow-up management indiabetic retinopathyPost-op endophthalmitis – preventive aspects and HICguidelinesVitreoretinal interface and posterior vitreou detachmentAshik MohamedInternationalPoster presentationAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annualmeeting, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 2-6, 2010Topic: Lens growth in the Indian population115Asia-ARVO Meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Topic: Change in the apparent volume of human crystallinelenses during simulation of accommodationNationalPaper presentation18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Age-related changes in the optomechanical properties ofhuman lenses: A comparison of Indian & American eyesR MuralidharInternationalAmerican Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting, Chicago,USA. October 16-19, 2010Free paperTopic: Outcomes of Descemet’s stripping endothelialkeratoplasty in children – a retrospective case seriesPoster presentationTopics: Rotational autokeratoplasty in pediatric age group fornon-progressive central corneal scarsNeonatal infectious keratitis – a five-year experience ata tertiary eye care centerFate of transplanted oral mucosal epithelial cells on anocular surface of a patient with bilateral severe limbalstem cell deficiencyComparing post operative astigmatism after cataractsurgery with different incisions in pediatric age group2 nd Asia Cornea Society biennial scientific meeting, Kyoto,Japan. December 1-3, 2010Free paperTopics: Descemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) ineyes with failed penetrating keratoplasty (PK)Long-term outcomes of keratoplasty in patients withautologous cultivated stem cell transplantation followingchemical injuryPoster presentationTopics: Neonatal infectious keratitis – a five-year experience ata tertiary eye care centerOutcome of rebubbling for graft detachment followingDescemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK)Asia-ARVO meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Topics: Outcome of the repeat DSEK after failed primaryendothelial keratoplastyDeep anterior lamellar keratoplasty in a case ofcongenital corneal keloidNationalPoster presentation18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topics: Rotational autokeratoplasty in pediatric age group fornon-progressive central corneal scarsNeonatal infectious keratitis – a five-year experience ata tertiary eye care centerOutcomes of Descemet’s stripping endothelialkeratoplasty in children – a retrospective case seriesFate of transplanted oral mucosal epithelial cells on anocular surface of a patient with bilateral severe limbalstem cell deficiencyActivity Report 2010–2011

Invited facultyBombay Ophthalmic Society meeting, Mumbai.August 14-15, 2010Topics: Outcomes of cultured oral mucosal epithelialtransplantation (COMET) in cases of bilateral severestem cell deficiency following chemical injuriesApproach to infective keratitis in a pediatric age groupeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Poster presentationTopics: Rotational autokeratoplasty in pediatric age group fornon-progressive central corneal scarsNeonatal infectious keratitis – five-year experience at atertiary eye care centerOutcomes of Descemet’s stripping endothelialkeratoplasty in children – a retrospective case series:Fate of transplanted oral mucosal epithelial cells on anocular surface of a patient with bilateral severe limbalstem cell deficiencyMooren’s ulcer in a pediatric patientDeep anterior lamellar keratoplasty in a case ofcongenital corneal keloidOutcome of rebubbling for graft detachment followingDescemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK)Comparing post operative astigmatism after cataractsurgery with different incisions in pediatric age groupOutcomes of unilateral traumatic cataract in preschoolchildren – 5 year analysis at a tertiary care centerFree paperTopics: Descemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) ineyes with failed penetrating keratoplasty (PK)Long term outcomes of keratoplasty in patients withautologous cultivated stem cell transplantation followingchemical injuryConjunctival tuberculosis: single institution experienceVideo presentationTopic: Management of congenital cataractSomasheila MurthyInternationalParticipantInternational Users’ Refractive Symposium, Carl Zeiss Ltd.,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. November 27, 2010NationalInvited speaker11 th annual meeting, Uveitis Society of India, Chandigarh.October 28-31, 2010Postgraduate CME program on Diagnostics in Ophthalmology,Ganapathi Netralaya, Jalna. December 25-26, 2010Free paper/Poster/Invited speaker69 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Organizing secretaryUveitis CME, Nellore Ophthalmology Association meeting,Nellore. March 20, 2011Milind NaikInternationalInvited facultyInternational Masters Course in Aging Skin, Hong Kong.July 9-13, 2010Minimally Invasive Plastic Surgery meeting, Seoul, Korea.September 9-11, 2010Annual meeting of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Beijing, China. September 16-20, 2010NationalInvited facultyFacial Aesthetic Surgery meeting, Poona Ophthalmic Society,Pune. August 22, 2010eye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Annual meeting of Oculoplastics Association of India, Mumbai.November 19-21, 2010Annual meeting of Aesthetic Cutaneous Surgeons of India,Aurangabad. November 26, 2010Annual meeting of Kerala State Ophthalmic Society, Kochi.November 27, 2010Annual meeting of Poona Ophthalmic Society, Pune.December 19-20, 2010Annual meeting of Indian Association of Cosmetic LaserSurgeons, Mumbai. January 8, 2011Chrysalis 2011, Sankara Netralaya, Chennai.January 16-17, 201169 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Annual meeting of Dermatology Society of India, Gurgaon.February 5, 2011Organizing SecretarySynapse 2011 – A Multidisciplinary Update on Facial AestheticSurgery and Medicine, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad.March 13, 2011Suma NalamadaNationalPoster presentation18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Acquatic aeromonas in eye infections – 5 year reviewInvited facultyeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010ParticipantTwin Cities microbiologists’ meet, Krishna Institute of MedicalScience, Hyderabad. December 18, 2010Raja NarayananInternationalInvited speaker28 th annual meeting of American Society of Retina Specialists,Vancouver, Canada. September 1, 2010Topics: Multifocal ERG in macular telangiectasia23G vs 20G vitrectomy with silicone oil infusion inrhegmatogenous retinal detachmentFundus autofluorescence pattern in mactelPaper presentation10 th International AMD & Retina Congress, Lugano, Switzerland.October 29-30, 2010Topic: Efficacy of bevacizumab in SRNVM secondary tomacular telangiectasiaExcellence | Equity | Efficiency116

Invited speakerAnnual meeting of International Society of OcularPharmacotherpaeutics, Macau, SAR China. December 7-9, 2010Topics: VEGF trap-eye in diabetic macular edema: Phase 2resultsAnti-VEGF plus laser in diabetic macular edemaNationalInvited speakereye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topic: Management of IPCV23 gauge sutureless silicone oil injection and removaltechniquesPoster presentationAnnual meeting of Vitreoretinal Society of India, Mysore.December 2-4, 2010Topic: Efficacy and safety of pegaptanib in vein occlusionsInvited speakerCME symposium, Sadhuram Eye Hospital, Hyderabad.January 9, 2011Topic: ICG angiography and autofluorescenceCorrelation between optical coherence tomographytear meniscus parameters and Schirmer’s test and tearbreak-up timeFourier domain optical coherence tomography bloodflow assessment in patients with glaucoma: A newblood flow methodQuality control for Doppler optical coherencetomography of retinal blood flowInvited speaker41 st Annual Doheny Day Conference, Doheny Eye Institute, LosAngeles, USA. June 11, 2010Topic: Relationship between outer retinal substructures andvisual acuity in eyes with dry age related macular degenerationDept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University ofWisconsin, Madison, USA. June 2010Topic: Importance of measuring outer retinal substructures inretinal diseases.Annual meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology,Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Topic: Characteristics of choroidal lesions with long wavelength(1mm) optical coherence tomographyTapas Ranjan PadhiNationalInvited speaker61 st annual conference of Delhi Ophthalmological Society, NewDelhi. April 16-18, 2010Topic: Scleral fixation of IOL: Vitreoretinal perspectiveRegional meet of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Rourkela,Orissa. May 2010Topic: Pediatric retinal disordersFUSION 2010, a joint meeting of Orissa State OphthalmologicalSociety and Eastern India Zonal Ophthalmological Congress,Bhubaneswar. November 13-14, 2010Topic: Diode laser in ROPCME on Retinal Vascular Occlusion, MKCG Medical College,Berhampur, Orissa. March 27, 2011Topic: Screening and management of ROPRajeev Reddy PappuruInternationalPoster presentationAssociation of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting,Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 1-6, 2010Topics: Relationship between outer retinal thicknesssubstructures and visual acuity in eyes with dry agerelated macular degeneration (AMD)Clinical significance of frame averaging with spectraldomain OCTVariation in outer retinal substructure thicknesses withage in normal eyesImpact of B-scan density on spectral domain OCTretinal thickness measurementsThe susceptibility of extracellular matrix-related genevariants in age-related macular degenerationThe del443ins54 polymorphism in ARMS2 is stronglyassociated with age-related macular degeneration in anIndian cohortAssessing accuracy of intraocular measurements madeby camera systems using prosthetic retinal arraysSerial measurement of tear meniscus by Fourierdomainoptical coherence tomography after instillationof artificial tears in patients with dry eyes117NationalChief instructor/Invited speakereye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topics: Optical coherence tomography in ophthalmologySutureless vitrectomy with 20G instrumentsInvited speakerKarnataka State Ophthalmology Society meeting, Udupi.October 30, 2010Topic: Impact of advances in retinal diagnostics on surgicalmanagement of retinal diseasesVidyalatha ParsamInternationalPaper presentationAnnual meeting of Association for Research in Vision andOphthalmology (ARVO), Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA.May 1-6, 2010Topic: Transcript analysis of constitutional mutations in theRB1 gene in retinoblastoma patients reveals differentpatterns of missplicingNationalPaper presentation18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Transcript analysis of constitutional mutations in therb1 gene in retinoblastoma patients reveals differentpatterns of missplicingNiranjan K PehereNationalInvited facultyCME, Ganapati Netralaya, Jalna. December 26, 2010Topics: Evaluation of a case with squintSynoptophoreHess chartInterpretation of VEPeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Free paperTopic: Rotational autokeratoplasy in childrenActivity Report 2010–2011

Invited facultyTopics: Visual fields in neuro-ophthalmologyUse of Botox in squintVeerendranath PesalaInternationalPoster presentationAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annualmeeting, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 2-6, 2010Topic: Measurement of consensual accommodation inunsighted eyes using auto-refractionInvited speakerThe Accommodation Club meeting, Bascom Palmer EyeInstitute, University of Miami, Florida, USA. May 7, 2010Topic: Auto-refraction measurement of consensualaccommodation in unsighted eyesNationalPoster presentation18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Investigation of a dual-optic accommodating intraocularlens in cataract surgery: Phase 2 safety and efficacy studyInvited speakerElite School International Conference on Optometry andVision Science (EVIOC 2010), Sankara Netralaya, Chennai.August 12-14, 2010Topic: Auto-refraction measurement of consensualaccommodation in unsighted eyesBrinda PriyadarshiniInternationalParticipantAnnual meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology,Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Quality Assurance workshop, American Association of TissueBanks, Fl, USA. November 10-12, 2010Invited facultyEye Bank of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. January 8-14, 2011NationalInvited speakerSightLife annual meeting, Jaipur. January 29-31, 2011Padmaja K RaniInternationalInvited speaker48 th International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology ofVision meeting, Perth, Australia. November 5-10, 2010Topics: Multifocal electroretinography in Type 2 idiopathicmacular telangiectasiaPrevalence of vitreoretinal abnormalities in retinitispigmentosa – an OCT study of Indian eyesClinical profile and electroretinographic characterizationof rod monochromatismNationalInvited speakerDiabetic retinopathy – from bench to population, SN ARVO2010, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. September 9-11, 2010Topic: Overview of diabetic retinopathy screening models inIndiaHarsha BL RaoNationalInvited speakerAnnual meeting of Bombay Ophthalmic Association, Mumbai.August 14-15, 2010Topics: Spectral domain OCT in glaucomaHow to use imaging techniques in clinical practiceeye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topic: Medical management of glaucomaCME on Glaucoma, Railways Hospital, Baroda.December 5, 2010Topics: Clinical evaluation in glaucomaOptic disc evaluation in glaucomaInterpretation of visual fields in glaucomaMedical management in glaucomaGullapalli N RaoInternationalKeynote lectureWorld Cornea Congress VI, The Cornea Society, Boston, USA.April 7-9, 2010Session: World health & eye banking sessionTopic: Eradicating corneal blindnessGuest lectureJohn Ashley Lecture, Sheie Eye Institute, Philadelphia, USA.April 29, 2010Topic: How can we eliminate avoidable blindness, a globalperspectiveInvited speakerAkshaya Patra 2010 – Chicago Food for Education BenefitEvent, Chicago, USA. May 1, 2010Topics: Global health challengesVISION 2020To tie in food & literacy to eradication of health problemsWorld Ophthalmology Congress, Berlin, Germany.June 5-10, 2010Panel discussionsSession: Africa – can we succeed in the greatest challenge toblindness prevention?Session: Coordinated planning (global, regional & national)Presented expert statementSession: Advocacy & resource mobilisationPresented expert statementBernardo Streiff Medal LectureTopic: Global blindness control: What can we possibly achieveby 2020?Invited speakerSession: VISION 2020: 10 years on, 10 years to goTopic: How VISION 2020 developedSession: Partnership beyond eye care sectorTopic: The need to reach beyond the eye care world andpartner with other initiativesInvited speakerAnnual meeting of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Beijing, China. September 16-20, 2010Session: Advocacy, guidelines, and management of human andeconomic resourcesTopic: How to get self-financing in prevention of blindnessprogramsExcellence | Equity | Efficiency118

Session: Ophthalmic educationTheme: Solving controversial issues in ophthalmic educationTopic: How should ophthalmic subspecialties be taught andcertified in developing countries?Welcome Speech, as Chairman of ICEEWorld Congress on Refractive Errors Conference, InternationalCentre for Eyecare Education, Durban, South Africa.September 20-24, 2010Invited speakerAnnual meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology,Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010International Forum:Can we do better? The global perspectiveon eye care in the United States and volunteering here andabroadSession: Increasing access and affordability of eye care in theUSA – the international community’s perspectiveTopic: Perspective of a non-US ophthalmologist who haspracticed in USANationalConvocation AddressDr NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada.April 11, 2010Keynote speakerInternational Symposium on Community Ophthalmology,Indian Association of Community Ophthalmology, Kolkata.October 29-31, 2010Chair, Session – Sum up PackageDr Aroop Midya Memorial INACO Oration 2007Topic: Task for tomorrowConvocation AddressVignan Jyothi Institute of Management, Hyderabad.November 9, 2010Foundation Day LectureCentre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.November 26, 2010Topic: Research and relevance to communitiesVarsha RathiInternationalWorld Cornea Congress VI, The Cornea Society, Boston, USA.April 7-9, 2010Free paperTopic: Boston ocular surface prosthesis in Stevens-Johnsonsyndrome in tertiary eye care centre in IndiaPoster presentationTopic: Phototherapeutic keratectomy in recurrence of granulardystrophy after penetrating keratoplastyFree paperAmerican Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgerysymposium, Boston, USA. April 10-14, 2010Topic: Boston ocular surface prosthesis in tertiary eye carecentre in IndiaNationalInvited speakerSymposium on Ocular Surface Disease, eye2future, AndhraPradesh Ophthalmological Society annual meeting, Hyderabad.October 1-3, 2010Topic: Ventilated scleral lens in advanced ocular surface diseaseDiagnostics in Ophthalmology meeting, Ganapathi Netralaya,Jalna. December 25-26, 2010Topics: Technique of soft and toric soft contact lens fittingTechnique of rigid contact lens fitting11969 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Free paperTopics: Boston ocular surface prosthesis in paediatric patientsin IndiaRole of optical coherence tomography in Boston ocularsurface prosthesis fittingPoster presentationTopic: Role of scleral lens in vernal keratoconjunctivitis andkeratoconus and limbal stem cell deficiencyVirender SachdevaInternationalPoster presentation37 th annual conference of American Academy for PediatricOphthalmology and Strabismus, San Diego, USA.March 30 – April 3, 2011Topic: Outcomes of surgery for bilateral Duane’s retractionsyndromeNationalInvited speaker61 st annual conference of Delhi Ophthalmological Society, NewDelhi. April 16-18, 2010Topic: Re-operations in strabismus: Is there a nomogrameye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topics: Evaluation of a case of pediatric cataractSurgical management of pediatric cataractMaking sense of imaging in neuro-ophthalmologicalpracticeIdiopathic intracranial hypertension: Concepts inevaluation and managementAcquired esodeviationsDecision making in strabismusRe-operations in horizontal strabismus sessionConvener, Instruction CourseTopic: Current perspectives in neuro-ophthalmologyPanelistXVII annual meeting of Strabismus Society of India, Jaipur.December 18-19, 2010Topic: Strabismus FixusCME, Nellore Ophthalmological Society, Nellore.January 23, 2011Topic: Strabismus evaluationModeratorWorkshop on Examination of visual acuity in children and strabismusevaluation, Narayana Medical College, Nellore. January 24, 2011Virender S SangwanInternationalInvited speakerInternational Ocular Surface Inflammation Group meeting,Chicago, USA. September 8-11, 2010Topic: Cell-based therapy for ocular surface construction:Gaps in knowledgeInaugural speaker“Innovations in Vision Restoration” lectures of The Louis J FoxJoint program of UPMC Eye Center & McGowan Institute forRegenerative Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA. October 14-15, 2010Topic: Cell-based therapy for ocular reconstructionActivity Report 2010–2011

Uveitis Subspecialty Day, annual meeting of American Academyof Ophthalmology, Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Invited facultyTopic: Surgical management on scleritisPoster presentationTopics: Luveniq (LX211/Voclosporin) as corticosteroidsparingtherapy in clinically quiescent sight-threateningnoninfectious uveitis: Results of the LX211-02 study ofthe LUMINATE clinical programVoclosporin (LX211) as corticosteroid-sparing therapyfor posterior active sight-threateningNon-infectious uveitis: Results of the LX211-01 of theLUMINATE programVideo presentationTopics: Wonder of water: Hydrodynamics simpler thanphacodynamics!Difficulties in phacoemulsification in difficult situationsand possible managementPeripheral ulcerative keratitis: An enigma for clinicians2 nd Asia Cornea Society biennial scientific meeting, Kyoto,Japan. December 1-3, 2010Invited speakerTopic: Ocular surface reconstruction – long-term outcome ofcultivated limbal epithelial transplantation (CLET)Poster presentationTopic: Outcome of rebubbling for graft detachment followingDescemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK)Invited speakerAsia-ARVO meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Topic: Cell-based therapy for ocular surface reconstructionLong-term outcome of cultivated limbal epitheliumtransplantation (CLET)National18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Poster presentationTopics: Oral epithelial cells transplanted on to corneal surfacetend to adapt to the ocular phenotypeCo-culture of autologous limbal and conjunctivalepithelial cells to treat severe ocular surface disorders:Long-term survival analysisRotational auto keratoplasty (RAG) for non-progressiveparacentral corneal opacitiesOutcomes of Descemet’s stripping endothelialkeratoplasty (DSEK) in paediatric age groupInvestigation of a dual-optic accommodating intraocularlens in cataract surgery: Phase 2 safety and efficacy studyBoston ocular surface prosthesis in paediatric patientsin IndiaNeonatal infectious keratitis – five years’ experience ata tertiary eye care centerPaper presentationTopics: Age-related changes in the optomechanical properties ofhuman lenses: A comparison of Indian and American eyesOutcome of ipsilateral autologous cultivated limbalepithelial transplantation (CLET) in partial limbal stemcell deficiency (LSCD)Implantable lens effects on corneal curvature and refractionDetection of viruses in aqueous humor of patients withFuchs’ Hetero Uveitis (FHU)eye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Invited speakerTopics: Ocular surface disordersEnd-stage corneal diseaseSevere allergic eye diseaseManagement tips in scleritisFree paperTopics: Descemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK) ineyes with failed penetrating keratoplasty (PK)Long term outcomes of keratoplasty in patients withautologous cultivated stem cell transplantation followingchemical injuryDetection of various infectious agents in aqueous humorof patients with Fuchs’ Heterochromic UveitisPoster presentationTopics: Neonatal infectious keratitis – five years’ experience ata tertiary eye care centerOutcomes of unilateral traumatic cataract (TC) inpreschool children – a five year analysis at a tertiarycare centerOutcomes of Descemet’s stripping endothelialkeratoplasty (DSEK) in paediatric age groupOutcome of cultivated oral mucosal epithelialtransplantations (COMET) for bilateral severe limbalstem cell deficiency (LSCD)Outcome of rebubbling for graft detachment followingDescemet’s stripping endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK)Deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty in a case ofcongenital corneal keloidMooren’s ulcer in pediatric patientVideo presentationTopic: Ahmed Glaucoma Valve with Boston KeratoprothesisOpen ForumTopic: Conjunctival tuberculosis: Single institution experienceChair, live surgeriesTopic: PhacoemulsificationInvited facultyOphthalmic Update, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.October 9-10, 2010Topic: Cell-based therapy for ocular surface reconstructionand end-stage corneal diseases: Clinical managementInvited speakerProf Mahendra Mishra Oration, FUSION 2010, a joint meetingof Orissa State Ophthalmological Society and Eastern IndiaZonal Ophthalmological Congress, Bhubaneswar.November 13-14, 2010Invited facultyAhmedabad Ophthalmic Society meeting, Ahmedabad.January 23, 2011Topic: Management of end-stage corneal diseaseInvited as expertTechnology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council(TIFAC), Department of Science & Technology and Govt ofIndia for brain-storming session on ‘Technology for ChangingIndia: 2035 and Beyond’, New Delhi. January 25, 2011Excellence | Equity | Efficiency120

Kunjal SejpalInternationalPoster presentationAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annualmeeting, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 2-6, 2010Topic: Outcome of autologous, cultivated limbal epithelialtransplantation in limbal stem cell deficiencyNationalPaper presentation18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Outcome of ipsilateral, autologous, cultivated limbalepithelial transplantation in partial limbal stem cell deficiencyInvited speakereye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010.Topics: Role of amniotic membrane grafting in ocular surfacedisordersThe Boston Keratoprosthesis: Indications and outcomes69 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Topic: Clinical outcome of autologous, ex-vivo cultivatedlimbal epithelial transplantation in pediatric limbal stemcell deficiencyG Chandra SekharInternationalSession chairGlaucoma Research Society Meeting, Kyoto, Japan.April 1-3, 2010Topic: Worldwide glaucoma managementAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annualmeeting, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 2-6, 2010DiscussantTopics: Medical therapy of glaucomaConsensus VII: Medical therapy of glaucomaPoster presentationTopic: Glaucoma in microspherophakiaChair, session/Invited speaker25 th Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology joint meeting withAmerican Academy of Ophthalmology, Beijing, China.September 16-20, 2010Topics: Management of failed trabeculectomiesManagement of bleb leaksTrabeculectomy – when is antifibrotics indicated?Medical and laser treatment for glaucoma – a developingcountry perspectiveA pyramid model of eye care for glaucomaThe role of plateau iris in PACG and its treatmentInvited facultyTopic: Secondary glaucomasMember, Technical Program CommitteeWireless Health 2010, La Jolla, CA, USA. October 4-7, 2010Lead, panel discussion on Wireless Health in Developing RegionsParticipantCouncil of Members meeting, International Agency forPrevention of Blindness, Geneva, Switzerland.October 11-12, 2010Invited speakerAsia-ARVO Meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Topic: Understanding glaucoma progression with guidedprogression analysis121NationalInvited speakerZonal meet of Glaucoma Society of India, Varanasi.April 11, 2010Topics: IOP in glaucomaDisc evaluationMedical management & surgical treatmentChair, Glaucoma UpdateIndian Association of Community Ophthalmology meeting,Kolkata. October 31, 2010Invited speakerTopic: Evidence based medicineModerator: Managing problems in the community eye practice.Glaucoma Management Trends, Indore Ophthalmic Society,Indore. November 21, 2010Topics: GonioscopyOptic disc evaluationNewer imaging technologiesPerimetry – basic & interpretationsLaser iridotomyGlaucoma Management Trends, Bangalore Ophthalmic Societymeeting, Bangalore. February 12, 2011Topic: Pearls and perspectives in glaucoma managementRegional-level Scientific Workshop on New Initiatives andTrachoma, National Programme for Control of Blindness,Chennai. March 27, 2011Topic: Prevalence of glaucoma, diagnosis & treatmentSirisha SenthilInternationalAnnual meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology,Chicago, USA. October 16-19, 2010Paper presentationTopic: Diagnostic ability of macular and optic nerve headparameters by spectral domain OCT in early glaucomaPoster presentationTopics: Predictors of normal optic nerve head, retinal nervefiber layer, and macular parameters measured byspectral domain OCTGlaucoma in microspherophakiaVideo presentationTopics: CO 2laser-assisted deep sclerectomy in open-angleglaucomaLeaking bleb: How to fix it?NationalInvited facultySuryodaya Glaucoma Update, Suryodaya Eye Centre, CalcuttaMedical Research Institute, Kolkata. September 12, 2010Topics: Phaco-trabeculectomyMy experience with Ahmed Glaucoma ValveLive surgical demonstration of Ahmed Glaucoma ValveInvited speakereye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topics: Cataract surgery in a post filtering eyeRecent advances in the surgical management of glaucomaVideo presentation in Swaroop video session on CO 2deep sclerotomyKerala State Ophthalmic Conference, Kochi.November 26, 2010Topics: Management of pediatric glaucomaAqueous drainage devices in childrenActivity Report 2010–2011

Savitri SharmaNationalInvited speakerVin basix 2010, National Conference on Basic Medical Sciences,Salem. April 10, 2010Topic: Investigations of ocular infectionsAnatomical Society of India (Orissa Chapter) meeting, Cuttack.June 7, 2010Topic: Fluorescence microscopy and its application4 th annual conference of Indian Association of MedicalMicrobiologists (Orissa Chapter), LVPEI, Bhubaneswar.August 8, 2010Topic: Microbiological diagnosis of ocular infections usingconventional techniquesCME on Infective Keratitis, Dr Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital,New Delhi. October 29, 2010Topics: Suppurative keratitis: Microbiology of bacterial, fungaland parasitic infectionsViral keratitis and rarer organisms: Newer modalities inthe diagnosis of viral keratitisFUSION 2010, a joint meeting of Orissa State OphthalmologicalSociety and Eastern India Zonal Ophthalmological Congress,Bhubaneswar. November 13-14, 2010Topics: Microbiological evaluation of microbial keratitisSight Savers international quality assurance in cataractsurgery: Safety standardsChair/Invited speakerMICROCON – 2010, 34 th National Conference of IndianAssociation of Medical Microbiologists in association withInternational Society of Chemotherapy, KPC Medical College,Kolkata. November 25-28, 2010Topic: Advances in diagnosis and treatment of fungal eyeinfectionsFree paperAnnual conference of Indian Association of MedicalMicrobiologists (AP Chapter), Guntur. January 8-9, 2011Topic: Relationship between microsporidia and adenovirusesin epidemic keratoconjunctivitis in eastern IndiaInvited faculty11 th Sir Dorabji Tata Symposium on Diagnostics in Infections,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. March 11, 2011Topic: Diagnosing bacterial and fungal infections of the eyeS SheeladeviNationalFree paperDiabetic retinopathy – from bench to population, SN ARVO2010, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. September 9 -11, 2010Topic: Diabetic eye care service delivery linked fromcommunity to tertiary centre – LVPEI’s pyramidal modelPaper presentationInternational Symposium on Community Ophthalmology, IndianAssociation of Community Ophthalmology, Kolkata. October29-31, 2010Topic: Visual impairment among leprosy patients in AndhraPradeshNational Bioethics Conference, New Delhi.November 17-20, 2010Topic: Considering ethics in community eye health planning:Perspectives from an existing modelRachna ShuklaNationalPoster presentationXXXVI annual conference of Indian Society of Human Genetics,Manipal Life Sciences Centre, Manipal University, Manipal.February 14-16, 2011Topic: Molecular genetic analysis of Leber’s CongenitalAmaurosis (LCA) in Indian patientsPreeji M SudharmanNationalInvited speakerCornea Club Meeting, Bangalore (through web telecast).July 18, 2010Topic: Contact lens fitting in keratoconusMukesh TanejaInternationalPoster presentationAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annualmeeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. May 2-6, 2010Topic: Optomechanical response of human lenses refilled withpolymer gelFree paperAccommodation Club Meeting, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute,Miami, Florida, USA. May 7, 2010Topic: Accommodation and pseudo-accommodation measuredwith optical coherence tomographyAsia-ARVO Meeting on Research in Vision and Ophthalmology,Singapore. January 20-22, 2011Topic: Anterior chamber depth changes with increasingaccommodative stimuli in different age groups, measuredby optical coherence tomography (OCT)NationalInvited speaker61 st annual meeting of Delhi Ophthalmological Society, NewDelhi. April 16-18, 2010Topics: Confocal microscopy – is that helpfulDeep anterior lamellar keratoplastyMicrosporidiosis – new bug in towneye2future, Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annualmeeting, Hyderabad. October 1-3, 2010Topic: Collagen cross-linking in ectasiaFree paper69 th All India Ophthalmological Society meeting, Ahmedabad.February 3-6, 2011Topic: Anterior chamber depth changes in accommodationmeasured with optical coherence tomography (OCT)Shubha TiwariInternationalPoster presentationAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annualmeeting, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. May 2-6, 2010Topic: Cultivation and characterization of human lacrimalgland cells for potential clinical applicationNationalPoster presentation18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Cultivation and characterization of human lacrimalgland cells for potential clinical applicationExcellence | Equity | Efficiency122

PVKS VarmaNationalInvited speakerMaharajah’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Nellimarla,Vizianagaram. January 25, 2011Topics: Angle evaluation techniquesAnatomical physiological and clinical correlation in angleclosure glaucomaGeeta K VemugantiInternationalInvited speakerUniversity of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.April 29, 2010Topics: Pathology of cornea and anterior segmentUpdate on stem cell research at LVPEIAnnual meeting of Association for Research in Vision andOphthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, USA. May 1-6, 2010Moderator/Invited speakerTopic: Targeting stem cells in ocular tumorsPoster presentationTopics: Cell cycle analysis of Y 79 cell linesLacrimal gland culturesInvited speakerWorld Ophthalmology Congress 2010, Berlin, Germany.June 5, 2010Topics: Eyelid stromal tumorsUnusual ocular andexal lymphomasModerator/Invited speakerAnnual meeting of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology,Beijing, China. September 16-20, 2010Topics: Utility and efficacy of cytology in ocular tumorsClinicopathologic corr in orbital pathUpdate on corneal infections & inflammRecent developments in corneal infectionsParticipantSecond Research Coordination Meeting on ImprovingOutcomes in Radiotherapy using Novel Biotechnologies:Modification of Tissue Reactions and the Use of Stem CellTherapeutics, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEAHeadquarters, Vienna, Austria. October 18-20, 2010Moderator/Invited speakerOphthalmic Pathology Hands-on Crash Course, Arab Forumof Ophthalmology Pathology meeting, Cairo, Egypt.December 14, 2010Topics: Corneal pathologyLens pathologyOrbital pathologyRole of histopathology in corneal infectionOcular surface stem cells: Where do we stand in 2010?NationalChair, Panel discussionGuidelines for Stem Cell Research and Therapy, NationalInstitute for Advanced Studies, IISc campus, Bangalore.April 10, 2010Chair, sessionIndian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists statechapter meeting, Hyderabad. July 10, 2010Invited speaker18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: Gene and cells based therapyStem Cell Task force meeting, New Delhi. August 4-5, 2010Indian Association of Medical Microbiology, Orissa Chapter(through videoconference), LVPEI, Hyderabad. August 23, 2010Annual CME, International Academy of Pathology - IndianDivision, Bangalore. September 5, 2010Topic: Ocular changes in diabetesWorkshop on Stem Cell for Vision, Aravind Medical ResearchFoundation, Madurai. October 26, 2010Topic: Role of limbal stromal cells in limbal nicheSymposium on Stem cells in development and regeneration:From the bench to bedside and back, 76 th annual meeting, IndianAcademy of Sciences, Goa. November 12-14, 2010Topic: Cell therapy for ocular servicesIndian Society of Gastroenterology (ISGCON 2010) meeting,Hyderabad. November 21, 2010Topic: Cancer stem cells59 th annual conference of Indian Association of Pathologists andMicrobiologists, Hyderabad. December 9-12, 2010Kovai VilasInternationalPoster presentationWorkshop on ‘Seeing is Believing’ Projects Phase III – Learning,Standard Chartered Bank, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.January 10-14, 2011Topic: Implementation of Vision Centre program: Perceptionsof the evaluation team of LVPEI during 2009-2010NationalPaper presentation18 th annual meeting of Indian Eye Research Group, L V PrasadEye Institute, Hyderabad. July 31 – August 1, 2010Topic: An estimate of patient costs and benefits of the newprimary eye care model utilization through VisionCentres in Andhra Pradesh, IndiaIn addition to the above, our faculty participated in other international/national scientific and nonscientificforums during the year. Faculty members also organised and presented at LVPEI meetingsand CME programs. At several meetings multiple presentations were made.123Activity Report 2010–2011

Our SupportThe L V Prasad Eye Institute Network reaches 1.4 million people every year. While it all startedwith one person’s vision, many people and organisations came to share the dream and joinedthe caravan. Twenty-four years later, the list of our benefactors, supporters, contributors andfriends continues to grow. We can never thank them enough!This year we take a look at some of the people who journeyed with us to concretise new initiatives.Because of their generosity, excellent eye care is now available at a new tertiary centre, a serenesecondary care centre and a comprehensive Children’s Eye Care Centre. The fourth story is of avirtual extension – tele-education, through live videoconferencing facilities. The donors for theseprojects came right from home, from another state in India and from a different continent – quitelike our varied support base.

Health and Education for AllMr Kode Satyanarayana, a successful industrialistand a true philanthropist says, “Providing aperson the financial means to educate his/herchildren is one of the best ways you can help someone.”He adds, “Considering the present state of health carein the country and the way some private hospitals drainthe resources of families in the event of sickness, it hasalso been a policy in our organizations to defray some ofthe medical expenses for the needy and deserving cases,whenever possible.”It was this public-spirited attitude that brought Mr KodeSatyanarayana and Dr Gullapalli N Rao and L V PrasadEye Institute (LVPEI) together. The LVPEI model toucheda chord in him, spurring him to be part of a mission toreach out to those in need. Since the year 2000 he hasbeen a major supporter of LVPEI. “Later, when Dr Raoinvited me to be part of the Vijayawada center I grabbedthe opportunity with both hands,” he says.Mr Satyanarayana’s father Mr Kode Venkatadri Chowdarywas Municipal Commissioner of Vijayawada in 1947 andhad served with distinction in various positions acrossthe state till his retirement in 1958, when he was RegionalInspector of Local Administration in charge of six districts.“It was only fitting to name the Vijayawada center aftermy father who was a pillar of strength and a beacon oflight to all of us in the family,” says Mr Satyanarayana.After completing a degree in civil engineering fromAnnamalai University, Mr Satyanarayana worked for awhile in the government and private sector. He moved toHyderabad in 1965 and, a few years later, became part ofa group of four like-minded people to start an enterprisethat set up eight different industries over a period oftime. Spectra Bottling Company and Spectra Foods andBeverages were part of this group. In 1992 when the fourpartners parted ways amicably, Mr Satyanarayana and hisfamily members took over Spectra Bottling and SpectraFoods. The next few years saw a dramatic increase inthe family’s financial well-being as good managementprinciples and hard work, coupled with employee friendlypolicies led to a spectacular 35% compounded annualgrowth rate in all the companies.The family members of Mr Satyanarayana include his wifeMrs Satya Gnana Prasunamba, his daughter and son-in-lawMrs Lalitha and Mr Athota Sudhakar, his eldest son anddaughter-in-law Mr Durga Prasad (Additional DirectorGeneral, Police) and Mrs Sujatha, his youngest son anddaughter-in-law Mr Venkata Ramana and Mrs KV Sandhyaand eight grandchildren, all of whom are professionallywell qualified. Later, the family pooled in to form the KodeVenkatadri Chowdary Charitable Society to undertakesocially responsible activities like helping the needy in theareas of education, health care and old age care.In 1997, when Coca Cola came knocking on the doorthe family sold Spectra Bottling and invested in otherbusinesses. A fair portion went into the CharitableSociety that Mr Satyanarayana had founded to honourhis father. It is from the Kode Venkatadri ChowdaryCharitable Society that the philanthropy spread its wingsto help young people with educational scholarships andprovide health care and old age care for the needy.All the members of Mr Satyanarayana’s family havesupported the building of the Kode Venkatadri Chowdarycampus of L V Prasad Eye Institute at Tadigadapa, a tertiarycare center near Vijayawada, the third of its kind in thestate of Andhra Pradesh. The philanthropy went beyondmere financial support — the family were involved inevery aspect of the design and construction. The Vijayawadacampus began seeing patients on February 16, 2011.Excellence | Equity | Efficiency126

A Commitment to the CommunityNava Bharat Ventures Limited (formerly NavaBharat Ferro Alloys Limited) is a businessconglomerate with interests in power generation,ferro alloys, mining and sugar with multinational operationsspread over India, South East Asia and Africa. Over thepast three decades, the organization has won numerousaccolades, each a testimony to its all-round performancein energy management, safety, work place excellence,environment protection, exports, productivity, industrialrelations, labour welfare, rural development, etc.Nava Bharat Ventures Limited (NBV) is led by Mr AshokDevineni, Chairman and Mr P T Vikram Prasad, ManagingDirector. Since its inception in 1972, NBV has beenallocating a part of its profits for rural developmentalactivities in backward areas located around the company’smanufacturing plants, with special focus on education,health and provision of drinking water. Over the lastfew decades, the company has spearheaded numeroushealth initiatives for the benefit of the rural poor. It nowmanages three full-fledged schools that provide qualityeducation to the backward and tribal communities ofAndhra Pradesh and Orissa.to honour the mother-in-law of the founder Chairman,Dr D Subba Rao. The eye bank is today not only themost effective eye bank in this part of the world, enablingLVPEI to perform over 1300 cornea transplant surgeriesannually but is also a major resource and training centrein the region.Extending support for establishment ofeye care centresTo serve the needs of a large tribal and underprivilegedpopulation, NBV has been supporting LVPEI’s initiatives inproviding quality eye care to the underserved. In 2005-2006, NBV provided financial assistance to set up L VPrasad Eye Institute at Bhubaneswar, Orissa, that openedits doors in July 2006.In February 2011, LVPEI opened a secondary eye carecentre, ‘Nava Bharat Eye Centre’ at Paloncha in Khammamdistrict of Andhra Pradesh. NBV not only provided theland but also constructed the building for the eye centreand is committed to supporting it till the centre becomesself-sustainable.In 1989, a few years after L V Prasad Eye Institute,Hyderabad, opened its doors, the NBV founderfamily joined its group of committed supporters. Theysupported setting up of a world class eye bank at theinstitute, namely the Ramayamma International Eye BankOther interests in eye care include its associationwith Operation Eyesight Universal in establishing aComprehensive Eye Care Unit in Zambia at the UniversityTeaching Hospital in Lusaka, which will partner with theZambian Ministry of Health.Activity Report 2010–2011

The David Brown Children’s Eye Care CentreA Personal Reflectionby Edward Hickman Brownchildren of her own and lives a long way from us in NewZealand. She has a very full and active life but she stillinvariably phones us on Davy’s birthday and also on theday he left us.In 1977 I was working in France as an expatriateemployee of the Paris subsidiary of a large Americanmultinational. When David came into our lives inMarch of that year and joined Soona, our daughter Shirinand me, our life was transformed. The next two yearswere wonderful; we thought we had everything. Apartfrom this superb addition to the family, I had a very goodjob at a senior level. Soona did occasional translationsfrom home, but her main function was looking afterthe kids. And Shirin was doing very well at the BritishSchool of Paris, handily located in a town a few milesfrom the green and pleasant one where we lived. Thelatter was itself a 20-minute train ride to my workplaceat La Defense, the then new Paris business centre full ofskyscrapers, located just outside the city.David was a beautiful little boy. He was energetic andactive. And a charmer; everyone who met him fell inlove with him. A couple of months prior to his secondbirthday he became quiet and his activity slowed down.His paediatrician sent us to a specialist and the terriblenews was that he had leukaemia – the worst possibleform of the disease, which we later learned was virtuallyincurable at the time. The treatment was harsh but herarely complained. And he fought hard. At one point thedoctors gave up on him and stopped the treatment. Davidmade a spontaneous recovery and his treatment startedagain. But the inevitable happened and our perfect littleboy was taken from us, aged only two years and eightmonths, in November 1979.Shirin graduated from the University of Durham in theUK in 1989. Her first job was in Japan and she then spentseveral years in Spain, before returning to the Universityof London and completing a postgraduate degree at theend of 1996. Until then, like most working families, wesupported various charities in a modest way. In mid-1996, with Shirin no longer requiring help from us, Idecided that we could support certain organizations thatwe admired in a much more significant manner. Whilewe are not especially wealthy, our income had becomein excess of our needs. And this also gave us a methodof remembering David and keeping his name alive, byproviding such support in his memory.The charitable organisations we worked with mainlywere Oxfam and the Leukaemia Research Fund (LRF)in the UK, and the International Rehabilitation Councilfor Torture Victims (IRCT) in Copenhagen. With Oxfamwe supported projects in various parts of the world butmainly in the subcontinent – mostly India – and Africa.They generally concerned health, children’s education,self-help programs, usually for women, agriculturalinnovation and environmental protection. In most casesplaques were provided by the recipients in memory ofDavid, though a school we rebuilt in the Kibera slum inKenya was named for him, as was a skills centre built forthe SOS Children’s Village in Botswana.We were completely devastated, each of us in our ownway, and also as a family. But we somehow survived.Recovery took a very long time. But, as time goes byafter a tragedy, human beings fortunately always seemto remember the best times while memories of theworst fade. Our Davydoo has stayed with Soona and me;we think of him constantly. Shirin now has two youngExcellence | Equity | Efficiency128

For LRF, most years we requested and were providedwith details of specialized equipment they needed forresearch projects they intended to support in the nearfuture. We chose a project that particularly appealedto us and provided the funding. As a result, there areplaques mentioning Davy’s name on highly specializedincubators, centrifuges, nanodrops and microtomes, etc.in UK hospitals and university research centres.With IRCT our projects concerned various publicationsrelative to their extensive worldwide anti-torturecentres. Also translations, for countries into which theyneeded to be smuggled. Soona and I almost always agreedon which projects to choose for all the charities. On therare occasions when we differed, hers was invariably thebetter choice.We found these activities rewarding but also felt thatthey were transitory by nature and would have beeninterested in something that was more direct, significantand permanent. By chance, in July 2008 I read an article onthe BBC World Service website about the children’s eyecare centre that was funded by the Miriam Hyman Trustin a successful collaboration with LVPEI. It dealt withEsther Hyman’s trip to Bhubaneswar for its inauguration.I was touched by Miriam’s tragic story but extremelyimpressed by her family’s bravery and positive actionin memorializing her in such a useful, ongoing fashion. Imanaged to contact their mother, Mrs Mavis Hyman, andexplained our situation to her. Mavis Hyman was veryhelpful in providing details of their experience and shespoke very highly of LVPEI’s levels and standards. She wassympathetic to our needs and described Dr G N Raoin glowing terms. She suggested that I contact him andprovided me with his email address.I did some research and was amazed by LVPEI’s currentstatus and its rapid progress over the years. Whatimpressed us most was that people who could notafford to pay received exactly the same treatment freeof charge.After that everything moved rapidly. I provided someof the above details in my email to Dr Rao. He repliedimmediately, expressing confidence that something similarmight be arranged for us in memory of David. After aconsiderable amount of detailed correspondence andtelephone conversations, Soona and I visited Hyderabadand Visakhapatnam at the end of 2008, with the intentionof funding the CECC at the latter tertiary centre. Wewere very impressed with the dedicated staff at Vizag andwere most disappointed to learn, when looking throughthe previous year’s Annual Report on our last eveningthere, that it had already been named in advance foranother major supporter. This had been overlooked.129At that point, Dr Rao advised us that a new tertiarycentre was planned for Vijayawada, to be built by theend of 2010, and we immediately agreed to wait for it tobe constructed. This was probably a blessing in disguisebecause the project was somewhat beyond our means,amounting to a little more than our total contributionsduring the previous 12 years. But we were determined togo ahead and were thus provided with extra time to findthe funding. At the end of 2009 I wanted to revisit thefirst two temples that I had ever seen with Soona in Indiain 1973. They were Konarak and Puri. Only when makingthe travel arrangements did I realize that the nearestairport was Bhubaneswar. So we were also able to visitthe Miriam Hyman CECC while we were there, and wereextremely impressed by its very efficient operation underDr Kesarwani. We owe a huge thank you to the Hymansfor the inspiration. And to Mavis for all her help.After we transferred the funding for Vijayawada, wereceived a singular email from Nag Rao. What he saidabout our munificence was very nice of him but not all thatimportant. But he ended by saying that because David’sCECC exists, over future years hundreds of thousandsof children in the area, who would not otherwise havehad it, would be given the gift of sight. Who could ask formore than that?Furthermore, the inauguration ceremony was more thanwe could ever have hoped for. We loved the layout andthe decoration of the Children’s Centre and we werepleased to meet Dr Niranjan Pehere who will be runningit. His attitude and reputation impressed us. He promisedto do his utmost to make it the very best CECC withinthe LVPEI group. During his speech, Dr Rao said, “Weare happy that we are doing it here. It is 5 miles fromwhere I was born; 5 miles from where I started myeducation. And 5 miles from where I got my wife!”Soona and I believe that “the 5 mile man” will take a veryspecial interest in the progress of the Vijayawada TertiaryCentre. And, given that, we also believe that Dr Peherehas a pretty good chance of achieving his objective.Activity Report 2010–2011

Creating Virtual Global ClassroomsThe Karam Chand Thapar Tele-education AcademyMr Vikram M Thapar, grandson of the late MrKaram Chand Thapar joined his father Mr InderMohan Thapar as Vice Chairman and ManagingDirector to direct the affairs of the very profitable KCT(Coal Sales) Ltd (Karam Chand Thapar and Bros Ltd) —the largest coal logistics firm in the country. Owners ofthe largest number of coal mines in the country till theirnationalization in the 1970s, the company has expandedinto the areas of manufacture of mining, material handlingand general engineering equipment and now plans toreturn to the coal mining business in India and abroad.Mr Vikram Thapar was Joint Managing Director of BallarpurPapers until he joined his father. A chartered accountant,he expanded the business to start a pioneering aquaculturalventure, The Waterbase Ltd. He also promotedIndian City Properties Ltd — a premium real estate andconstruction company, now managed by his daughterMs Ayesha Thapar. KCT (Coal Sales) Ltd also promotedIndicon Logistics Ltd, managed by Mr Vikram Thapar’s sonMr Varun Thapar. Indicon is poised to become the largestmanufacturer of all kinds of containers.On one of his visits to L V Prasad Eye Institute for aneye examination, Mr Vikram Thapar became interested insupporting the institute in its efforts to provide qualityeye care to many more people in India. In particular, theidea of partnering LVPEI in providing quality education toophthalmologists and other eye care professionals acrossthe network appealed to him. Today, he and his family arecommitted to support LVPEI through the Karam ChandThapar Tele-education Academy that he has helped set up.The generous support that we continue to receive fromMr Vikram Thapar and his family has helped us takeophthalmology education at our institute to the next level,both in terms of quality and reach. The videoconferencingMr Vikram & Mrs Jyothi Thaparfacility has allowed us to interlink LVPEI’s three tertiarycentres — Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam— and our public eye health campus at Kismatpur. Theinteractive sessions during conferences and meetingscreate a stimulating and inclusive environment foracademic and professional discussion.The Karam Chand Thapar Tele-education Academyhas also enabled us to videoconference guest lecturesby internationally renowned specialists from the bestinstitutions across the world, thus creating virtualclassrooms, where our trainees can engage in discussionwith the brightest and the best minds in the field. Soon,the group’s new tertiary care centre at Vijayawada willalso be linked for videoconferencing.The teleconferencing facility is only the beginning ofour ongoing process of the enhancement of LVPEI’seducational facilities.Dr Francis S Mah from the University of PittsburghMedical School, USA delivers a talk via videoconference

Your support makes it possible for all to see...Hyderabad Eye InstituteFOUNDING TRUSTEESDr Gullapalli N RaoMr A Ramesh PrasadProf V RamalingaswamiDr Narla Tata RaoMr K P PrasadMr K Rama RaoFounding OrganisationsIndo American Eye Care SocietyFOUNDING TRUSTEESProf Brijen GuptaDr Gullapalli N RaoDr Y M JayDr H JanardhanFoundersMr L V Prasad, IndiaMrs Pratibha & Dr Gullapalli N Rao, IndiaMrs Vijaya Lakshmi & Mr A Ramesh Prasad, IndiaBrien Holden Vision Institute, AustraliaOperation Eyesight Universal, CanadaMr Kode Satyanarayana &Kode Venkatadri Chowdari Charitable Society, IndiaMrs & Dr K Anji Reddy, IndiaMr Nimmagadda Prasad, IndiaBausch & Lomb, USASightsavers, UKMr Sudhakar Ravi & Mr Sreekanth Ravi, USAMrs Padma & Mr Subba Rao Makineni, USAMr V C Janardan Rao, IndiaMr B R Barwale & Mr R B Barwale, IndiaChampalimaud Foundation, PortugalLavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc., USAChristoffel Blindenmission, GermanyNava Bharat Ventures, IndiaBHP Billiton, AustraliaMrs Kokil & Mr S K Pathak, DubaiMr Kishore K Kothapalli, IndiaGMR Varalakshmi Foundation, IndiaDr Krupakar Thadikonda, IndiaNTPC Limited, IndiaMrs Ramanamma & Dr Jasti V Rattaiah, USAEyesight International, CanadaFamily of Mrs Meera & Mr L B Deshpande, IndiaMrs Smita & Mr Sanjay Deshpande, USAMrs Meghna & Mr Vinay Deshpande, IndiaMrs Rewati & Dr Madan Maha, UKMiriam Hyman Memorial Trust, UKLatter-day Saint Charities, USAMr V Nannapaneni Choudhary, IndiaProf V Ramalingaswami, IndiaMs Virginia & Prof Brijen Gupta, USADr Narla Tata Rao, IndiaMr K P Prasad, IndiaMr K Rama Rao, IndiaDrs Saradapurna & Sri Ram Sonty, USAMr Ravi Reddy, USAORBIS International, USALions Club International Foundation, USACarl Zeiss, GermanyDr D Balasubramanian, IndiaDr G Chandra Sekhar, IndiaMrs Vijaya L Ramam, IndiaDr Taraprasad Das, IndiaMr O Naresh Kumar, India131PatronsMr Seshanna Chennavar, IndiaMs Sudha Ghatrazu, IndiaMr L D Jhaveri, JapanMr Adnan Mahmood, IndiaMrs Guna & Dr Somasekhara Rao Mukkamala, USAMrs & Dr D Rama Naidu, IndiaMr Narayan Rao Patel, IndiaMrs & Mr Prasad Potluri, IndiaDr Mullapudi Harishchandra Prasad, IndiaDr P R K Prasad, USAMr T R Prasad, IndiaMrs Uttara Devi & Mr B V Rao, IndiaMr Vellanki V Rao, IndiaMr K Chandramouli Reddy, IndiaMrs & Mr Rao Remala, USAMrs Amrit Sujan, IndiaMrs & Mr B D Sureka, IndiaMr Vikram M Thapar, IndiaAlcon, USAAllergan, USABiocon Foundation, IndiaCanadian International Development Agency, CanadaCombat Blindness Foundation, USAInternational Federation of Eye Banks, USAIntraocular Care Pvt Ltd, IndiaI T C Ltd, IndiaK L N Prasad Trust, IndiaMerck Foundation, USAOpen Society Institute, USAOptometry Giving Sight, CanadaPharmacia, SwedenV S T Industries, IndiaWorld Diabetic Foundation, DenmarkSightLife, USASupportersMr K Bhanumurti, IndiaMr Dilip B Desai, IndiaMrs Sunita & Mr Praveen K Gottipalli, USAMr Madanlal Harbahajanka, IndiaDr A P J Abdul Kalam, IndiaDr Lalitesh Katragadda, IndiaMr Abid Ali Khan, IndiaMrs Vinita & Mr Swaroop Kolluri, USADr Usha Kumar, IndiaMrs Preeti & Mr Ashok Kundalia, IndiaMrs Krishna & Mr Vinod K Neotia, IndiaActivity Report 2010–2011

SupportersMrs Anju & Mr Mahender K Patodia, IndiaMrs Rajashree & Mr Vikram Prasad, IndiaMr Rudra Raju Appala Raju, IndiaMr K V J Subba Raju, IndiaMrs Vatsala & Mr Vijay Sri Ram, IndiaMr S Venkateswara Rao, IndiaMrs Saroja & Dr A Narasing Rao, USAMr R Raghu Rayala, IndiaMrs Madhu & Mr Sunil Saigal, IndiaMrs Mani & Mr C S Sastry, IndiaDr N Madhavi & Dr N V Sastry, IndiaDr Parin Vakharia in memory of late Olive Swoboda, IndiaAndhra Bank, IndiaAutomotive Manufacturers Ltd, IndiaBio Medix Optotechnik & Devices Pvt Ltd, IndiaFowler Westrup (India) Ltd, IndiaFred Hollows Foundation, AustraliaGrandhi Enterprises Pvt Ltd, IndiaHartex Rubber Pvt Ltd, IndiaInfosys Foundation, IndiaInternational Eye Foundation, USAJohnson & Johnson, IndiaMerck Sharp and Dohme, USARavindranath General Medical Associates Pvt Ltd, IndiaRotary Club of Hyderabad, IndiaSir Ratan Tata Trust, IndiaTantia Group of Companies, IndiaContributorsMr Anne Adinarayana, IndiaMr Ramesh Chand Agarwal, IndiaMrs Mani & Mr Sudarsana Rao Akkineni, USAMrs & Mr Basharat Ali, IndiaDr Sajid Ali, USAMrs & Mr Rajendra Y Angle, IndiaMr T S R Anjaneyulu, IndiaMrs & Mr Mitsuaki Aoki, IndiaMrs Constance & Dr J V Aquavella, USAMrs K Aruna, IndiaMrs & Dr P K Bakshi, IndiaDrs Manjula & Rajender Bansal, USAMs P Jaya Bharati, IndiaDrs Syamala & C S Bhaskaran, IndiaMr Ghangabhishan Bhikulal, IndiaDrs Shobha & Aashish Boghani, USAMrs Rita & Mr Bill Bourne, USAMr Vijaychandra N Cantol, IndiaMrs Shanta & Mr Rajendra Prasad Challa, IndiaDrs Girija & Sudarsan Chavala, USAMrs Sreedevi & Mr Suresh Challa, IndiaMrs Rashmi & Dr Dinesh Chawla, USAMr Vijayakumar Chilakapati, USAMr K V R Choudary, IndiaMrs Padma & Mr V Neelakanta Rao Dantu, IndiaMs Bala Deshpande, IndiaMrs V Anasuya Devi, IndiaMr Murali K Divi, IndiaDr Amit J Dolakia, IndiaMr Sudhir R Doshi, IndiaDr Kameswari Devi Dwarapalak, IndiaDr Evita Fernandez, IndiaMrs Richa & Mr Lal Gehi, IndiaMrs Saranya & Dr Bapineedu Gondi, USADr Usha Gopinathan, IndiaMrs Padma & Dr Prasad Guntupalli, USAMr Shrinivasan Shesha Iyengar, IndiaMrs & Mr Shantilal Jain, IndiaMrs Prema & Dr H V Janardhan, USAMrs T Lakshmi Jhunjhunwala, IndiaDr Nilanjan Joardar, IndiaMrs & Mr Jayantilal Kadakia, IndiaMrs & Mr Sham Sunder Kanoria, IndiaMrs Mary & Dr Manmadha Rao Kasaraneni, USAMr G Kathuria, IndiaMr Mallikarjun Kencha, IndiaMs Sowjanya Kilaru, USADrs Prafulla & Harnath Babu Koneru, USAMr Sarva Kalyan Kosh, IndiaMr K Sivarama Krishna, IndiaMrs C Lalitha, IndiaMs N Laxmi, IndiaMr P Narendra & Mr P Mahendra, IndiaDrs Vijaya Kumari & Anil K Mandal, IndiaMrs & Mr C P Mehta, IndiaMr & Mrs Chintan Mehta, IndiaMr Thomas Minner, USAMr Prakash Chandra Mohanty, IndiaMr Narendra Kumar Mor, IndiaDr Y C Mruthyunjaya, USADrs Nalini & Ratnam V Mullapudi, USADr Somasheila Murthy, IndiaMrs Meena & Mr Brahmaji Mutyala, USAMrs Aruna Kumari & Dr Ramamurthy Nagubadi, USAMrs Champaben & Mr Champalal Nahata, IndiaMs Kavita Nampalli, AustraliaMrs Annapurna & Dr Durga Das Narla, USAMrs Uma & Mr V G Tarak Nath, IndiaMr Babubhai K Patel, KenyaMr Biju Patnaik, IndiaMr Shyam Prabhaker, USAMrs & Mr T L Prasad, IndiaJustice T N C Rangarajan, IndiaMrs Bina & Dr T Gopal Rao, IndiaMrs Sujatha & Dr Y A Kesava Rao, USAMr S S R Koteswara Rao, IndiaDrs C Sudha & Nageswara Rao, IndiaDr Shalini Rao & Justice M N Rao, IndiaDr Palle Rama Rao, IndiaProf Kakarla Subba Rao, IndiaMrs Swarna Kumari & Dr N U Rao, IndiaMr K Damodar Reddy, IndiaDr K Madhukar Reddy, IndiaMr K Pratap Reddy, IndiaMr K Sudhakar Reddy, IndiaDrs Katherine & C S Reshmi, USAProf M Sakuntala, IndiaMr Giridharilal Sanghi & Mr Bajrang Pershad Sanghi, IndiaMrs Kanuri Santhamma, IndiaDr Satish, IndiaMr Abhay J Shah, IndiaMrs & Mr Pabba Shankaraiah, IndiaExcellence | Equity | Efficiency132

ContributorsDrs Sashi & Ravinder Sharma, USAMrs & Mr Nissar Ahmed Siddiqui, IndiaMrs & Dr Girvar Singh, USAMr D K Somani, IndiaMs P Sreedevi, IndiaMrs Penmetcha Sreedevi, IndiaMr S Srinivasan, IndiaMrs Lalitha & Mr V Venkata Subramanyam, IndiaMrs Prabha & Mr Suryaprakash, IndiaDrs Kamala & L N Taneja, IndiaMr Anil K Thakar, IndiaMrs Javerben K Thakker & Mr Kantilal K Thakker, IndiaMr I M Thapar, IndiaMr Om Prakash Tibrewala, IndiaMrs Radha & Mr G G Vaidya, IndiaMrs & Dr Rao Vallabhaneni, USAMr Arjun Valluri, USAMrs Sitamma & Mr Rattayya Vallurupalli, IndiaMrs Ratna Tulasi & Dr B R Yelamanchili, USADrs Lyla & Ramchandar Rao Yerneni, USAThe Davars & Unnavas Family, Australia & IndiaAmit Castings Pvt Ltd, IndiaAsia Engineering Co, IndiaBank of India, IndiaBharat Biotech International Ltd, IndiaBiomed Technologies, IndiaCBR Forum, IndiaChittoda Investment and Trading Pvt Ltd, IndiaCoopervision, USACoromandel Fertilizers Ltd, IndiaDeepak Fertilizers & Chemicals, IndiaDe Heer, The NetherlandsDespatel Land Developers Pvt Ltd, IndiaEmami Foundation, IndiaEmerald Chemicals, IndiaESPI Industries & Chemicals Pvt Ltd, IndiaEye Bank Association of India, IndiaF D C, IndiaFullerton India Credit Co Ltd, IndiaGanapathrai Tibrewala Trust, IndiaGangabhishan Bhikulal Int. Ltd, IndiaG N B Tech, USAGodrej & Boyce Mfg Co Ltd, IndiaGunnam Subba Rao Trust, IndiaHealth Care Marketing Services, IndiaHerdillia Chemicals, IndiaHumphrey Instruments, USAIndian Orthocane Surgicals Ltd, IndiaJain Roadways, IndiaKamala Dalmia Charity Trust, IndiaKapoor Charitable Foundation, USAKathanji Chaturbhuj Sanatorium Trust, IndiaKonan, JapanLions Club of Hyderabad Majestic, IndiaMphasis Limited, IndiaMeda Narasimhulu & Co, IndiaMehta Investment & Trading, IndiaMicro Vision, IndiaMilmet Laboratories Pvt Ltd, IndiaMisereor, GermanyNational Litho Printers, IndiaNOVARTIS, IndiaOshiwara Land Dev Co Ltd, IndiaP K Business Enterprise Ltd, IndiaPersonnel Search Services Pvt Ltd, IndiaPolymer Technology Inc, USARamakrishna Potdar Smaraknidhi, IndiaRampion Eyetech Pvt Ltd, IndiaRavela Timbers, IndiaS R K Consultants, IndiaSai Sri Printers, IndiaSatya Enterprises, IndiaSeva Foundation, USAShanta Biotechnics Pvt Ltd, IndiaShiwlal Chandrakala Devi Sarda Charitable Trust, IndiaSiris Ltd, IndiaSmt Indukuri Shakaramma, Indu Projects Ltd, IndiaSri Aruna Auto Service Limited, IndiaSri Krishna Jewellery Mart, IndiaSri Ramdas Motor Transport, IndiaSri Rameswar Ram Charities, IndiaState Bank of India, IndiaSudershan Drugs & International Ltd, IndiaSuha Devi Poddar Charitable Trust, IndiaSun Pharmaceuticals, IndiaSupra Enterprises, IndiaSurya Enterprises, IndiaUnion Bank of India, IndiaVaibhav Empire Pvt Ltd, IndiaVijaydurga Beverages, IndiaWestern Transport Agency, IndiaZurich Financial Services, UK133Activity Report 2010–2011

Mrs Y Achutam, IndiaMs Kavita Advani, IndiaMrs Aruna Agarwal, IndiaDr Bharatendu Agarwal, IndiaMr Sharat Chandra Agarwal, IndiaMs Durgabai Agarwal, IndiaMr Kanhaiyalal Agarwal, IndiaMr Madanlal Agarwal, IndiaMr Ramavatar Agarwal, IndiaMr Rambilas Agarwal, IndiaMs Reena Agarwal, IndiaMr Ritesh Agarwal, IndiaMast Sarad Agarwal, IndiaMr Shaligram Agarwal, IndiaMrs & Mr Gowri Shankar Agarwal, IndiaMr Shishir Agarwal, IndiaMr Vikash Agarwal, IndiaDr Vinay Agarwal, IndiaDr Hussain Ahmed, IndiaMs Mahjabeen Ahmed, IndiaDr Raj Anand, IndiaMr K V Anjaneyulu, IndiaMs Sarika Jain Antony, IndiaMs R Aruna, IndiaMr Kaushik Arunagiri, IndiaMs Gowri Arur, IndiaDr M Ajit Babu, IndiaMr Siraj Badrudin, PortugalMr S J Balasundaram, IndiaDr Aashish Bansal, IndiaMr K M Bansal, IndiaMs Sashikala Begur, IndiaMs Nancy Benham, IndiaMr P B Bhandari, IndiaMrs Veena & Mr Anil Bhargava, USADr Kamini & Prashant Bhatia, UAEMs Winnie Bhatia, IndiaMrs Maya Bhattacharjee, IndiaMr Bidhu Sekhar Bhattacharjee, IndiaMr M S Prashudas Bhimjee, LisbonMr Robert J Biggar, USAMr Ajeet Birani, IndiaMr Ajeet Birla, IndiaMrs & Mr Harish R Boghani, IndiaMrs & Mr P K Chabbra, IndiaMr Asim K R Chakrabarti, IndiaMr M Chakravarthy, IndiaMr Mathura N Chandan, IndiaDr Anitha Chandra, IndiaMr B R Siva Chandra, IndiaMs T Chandramuki, IndiaMr Jonnalagadda Chandrasekhar, IndiaMr Ram Charla, IndiaMs Pushpa Chellani, IndiaMs Hema Chennupaty, IndiaMr Naresh Chintalcheru, USADr Mrs Thayamma Chiranjivi, IndiaMr K Bramhanaiah Choadary, IndiaMr Ashok Choudhary, IndiaDr Kushal Choudary, IndiaDr Tuhin Choudhary, IndiaDr Vandana Choudary, IndiaMr N Chowdary, IndiaMr Pallash Daas, IndiaMr Pankas Daga, IndiaFriendsMr Aditya Dalmika, IndiaMr R K De, IndiaMr R Deepika, IndiaMr Arun P Deshpande, IndiaMr Pradeep Kumar Devaki, IndiaMrs K Rajeshwari Devi, IndiaMrs P Rama Devi, IndiaMs P Rohini Devi, IndiaMs J Sarojini Devi, IndiaMs Gogineni Shyamala Devi, IndiaMs R Vimala Devi, IndiaMr K N Devidi, IndiaMs Kishan Kumar Dhanraj, IndiaMrs Archana Dhanwatay, IndiaBaby Tenzing Doma, IndiaMr Premlal P Doshi, IndiaMr Ramesh Chandra V Doshi, IndiaMr Anurag Dubey, IndiaMr N Duraiswamy, IndiaMr Mayank Farwaha, IndiaMr Naurooz R Rustom Fram, IndiaMrs Bhanumathi Ganapathiraju, IndiaDr Nibaran Gangopadhyay, IndiaDr Prashant Garg, IndiaMs Kalpana Garigipati, IndiaMr Kali Charan Ghosh, IndiaDr Monimoy Ghosh, IndiaMrs Renuka Ghosh, IndiaMr Ashok Kumar Gilada, IndiaMr Ameer Ali Gilani, IndiaMs Zohra Gilani, IndiaMrs & Mr S N Goel, IndiaDr Nikhil Gokhale, IndiaMr P Hara Gopal, IndiaMr N Gopalakrishna, IndiaMr K Gopiraju, IndiaMr V R Gudka & Ms K V Gudka, UKMr Satish Kumar Gulati, IndiaMr Ajay Gummadi, IndiaMr Polisetty Ekanatha Gupta, IndiaMr Kranti Gupta, IndiaMr Vinit Kumar Gupta, IndiaMr Manorajan Gupta, IndiaMs Meena Gupta, IndiaMr Naman Gupta, IndiaMr Sharad Gupta, IndiaDr Siddhartha Gupta, IndiaMr Suresh Halwai, IndiaMr & Mrs Rohtas Handa, IndiaDr L Hanumayamma, IndiaMr M Shamsul Haque, IndiaMr P Haragopal, IndiaMr H R Hebbar, IndiaMrs Nurbanu & Mr Amir Hemani, IndiaMrs Eva & Dr George F Hilton, USADr Santosh Honavar, IndiaMs Andrea Stern & Mr Larry Hulbert, AustraliaMr Ajay Ijantkar, IndiaDr K Indira, IndiaMr L S Hari Haran Iyer, IndiaMr Ajay Jain, IndiaMr Bhanwarlal Jain, IndiaMr Ashok Kumar Jain, IndiaMr Lalit Kumar Jain, IndiaMr Sushil Kumar Jain, IndiaMr Parasamlal Jain, IndiaMs Priyamvada Jain, IndiaMs Rachana Rajiv Jain, IndiaMr Rohit Jain & Mr R C Jain, IndiaMs Sucheta Jain, IndiaMrs Veena & Mr R C Jain, IndiaMrs Sudha Jalan, IndiaMr Suresh Jalani, IndiaMrs P Jayabharathi, IndiaMr Gangadhar Jayanty, IndiaMr Steve Jenner, CanadaMr M M Joshi, IndiaMr Vijay Anand Joshi, IndiaMs Devaki Jyothi, IndiaMs Vignana Jyothi, IndiaMr Samant Kakarla, IndiaMs Sachi Kale, IndiaMs Sushma Kalidindi, IndiaDr Chitra Kannabiran, IndiaMr A Krishna Kanth, IndiaMr Gul Mohammed Kapadia, CanadaMr I M Kapur, IndiaMr Abdul Kareem, IndiaMr R P Singh & Kamlesh Katiyar, IndiaMr Srinivasa Katta, IndiaDr Subhadra Kaul, IndiaMs D 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