‘The Week’ magazine ranked L V Prasad Eye Institute as the No.1 in Best specialty hospitals - Ophthalmology.

Nobel Laureate Dr Ellen Johson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, admitted Gullapalli N Rao into the Order of the Star of Africa, with the Grade of Commander, for his exceptional performance and contributions to Liberia.

Vivek Singh won the Young Scientist Award at the 86th annual conference of Society of Biological Chemists (SBC) - Emerging Discoveries in Health and Agricultural Sciences, organized by School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 16-19 November 2017. His presentation was on ‘Limbal stromal stem cell therapy and its molecular characterization for acute and chronic corneal pathologies derived from human cornea’.

Hitesh Agarwal won the best poster award for ‘Inflammatory Choroidal Neovascular Membranes’ at the 17th Uveitis Society of India meeting in Kolkata, 4-5 November 2017.

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Conferences, Meetings, Seminars & Continuing Medical Education (CME)

The one-of-its-kind Bug Busters: Corneal Infection Workshop, 28-29 October 2017, comprising cutting edge diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, discussions on uncommon corneal infections and challenging case-based scenarios, ulcer rounds, and microbiological skill transfer sessions, had 163 delegates from across the country.

The Indian Oil Centre for Rural Eye Health (IO-CREH) at LVPEI Bhubaneswar organized a workshop on Standard Protocols for Operation Theatres (SPOT), 3-4 November 2017. It was supported by VISION 2020: The Right to Sight - India and Operation Eyesight Universal.

The 6th Exit Competency Training program in Oculoplasty for first year comprehensive fellows across the LVPEI network was organized on 5 November 2017 at GMR Varalakshmi Campus, Visakhapatnam.

A Teachers’ Training program on how to provide efficient care to children with visual impairment in mainstream schools was organized on 11 November 2017 by Sight First – Lions Clubs International Foundation and LVPEI.

Intense Discussions in Cornea with Dr Francis W. Price Jr, Founder and President, Price Vision Group; and Dr Marianne O’ Price, Executive Director, the Cornea Research Foundation of America, Indianapolis, USA, 21-23 November 2017, included advanced keratoplasty techniques, live surgery sessions, guest lectures, clinical rounds, case reports, and cornea grand rounds. The Dr Narendra Swarup Oration was delivered by Dr Francis Price Jr on ‘New developments in Refractive Surgery and how they affect LASIK’.

As part of the Children’s Eye Health Initiative, the 60th Teachers’ Training Program for school teachers from Kothur mandal, Rangareddy District on 23 November 2017 was supported by Lavelle Fund for the Blind Inc. 1709 teachers have been trained thus far in Nirmal, Wanaparthy, Nagarkurnool, Adilabad, Kumarambheem, Mancherial, Nizamabad, Mahbubnagar districts of Telangana.

The 53rd Indian Contact Lens Program (ICLEP), 24-26 November 2017, in association with Bausch + Lomb had 81 delegates from across India and Kenya.

Feedback from participants:

“The CME was great and I enjoyed all the sessions. It had great speakers and was full of in-depth scientific sessions that were well planned and well executed. It is not easy to compile such a volume of tough cases having regular follow-ups. This really boosts the clinical skill of young cornea specialists and helps them in better management of infection in their practice.”

- Dr M Srinivasan, Director Emeritus, Aravind Eye Care System

“Hearty congratulations on the successful conduct of BUG BUSTERS. This is a novel and bold attempt to focus on just corneal infections. I enjoyed the discussions and the formats that you employed to ensure audience participation. I wish you all success in your future endeavours.”

- Dr N Venkatesh Prajna, Chief, Department of Medical Education, Aravind Eye Care System

Awards & Honours

NEWS @L V Prasad Eye Institute

December 2017

On the eve of ICLEP on 23rd

November, LVPEI BostonSight Scleral Lens Workshop

was conducted by Chirag Patel, Faculty, Boston Foundation for Sight. The agenda included live demonstration of fitting the lenses and visit to the lens manufacturing facility at LVPEI’s Kismatpur campus.

A training program was organized for optical staff on optical fittings and data entry on 11th and 18th November respectively.

L V Prasad Eye Institute Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad

Tel: 91 040 39892020City Centre: 91 40 39171600/39171601

E-mail: info.hyd@lvpei.org

Mithu Tulsi Chanrai CampusPatia, Bhubaneswar, Orissa

Tel: 91 0674 3989202E-mail: info.bbsr@lvpei.org

GMR Varalakshmi Campus, VisakhapatnamTel: 91 0891 3984555

E-mail: info.vizag@lvpei.org

Kode Venkatadri Chowdary CampusTadigadapa, VijayawadaTel: 91 0866 3062020

E-mail: KVC-appointment@lvpei.org

#159 Machavaram Vision Centre in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh was inaugurated on 13 November 2017 by Sri J Venkateswarlu,

MPP (Mandal Praja Parishad, Machavaram). Other dignitaries included Smt T Jayakumari, Sarpanch; Sri A Gopaiah, former Sarpanch; Sri Ch Narasimha Rao, MPTC; and Sri P Sambasiva Rao, Market Yard Director, Machavaram. Capital support for the centre is by OneSight Foundation.

InaugurationsEvents, Visitors & UpdatesAt the India Today Conclave ‘Next 2017’ hosted at New Delhi, 7 November 2017, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella invited Anthony Vipin Das on stage to talk about how LVPEI is using mixed reality and artificial intelligence in medical diagnosis, predictive analysis and in Ophthalmic education for studying eye anatomy.

With a month to go yet for close of year 2017, Ramayamma International Eye Bank has set yet another record with 4000+ corneal tissues distributed across India, including at LVPEI.

An awareness rally was organized by the Nava Bharat Eye Centre in Paloncha, Khammam, District, to mark the World Diabetes Day on 14 November 2017, with students from KLR Degree College and National Degree College participating.

Children’s Eye Care Week, 7-14 November 2017, was marked with awareness walk, children’s eye screening programs, parent-and-child education forum, drawing competition, etc, organized along the theme Amblyopia and Squint. The finale on 14th November included interactive talks by specialists besides entertainment for the children.

LVPEI’s Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad received re-accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH).

GMR Varalakshmi campus, Visakhapatnam organized an Eye Awareness Talk for the students of Gayatri Vidya Nilayam School on 30 October 2017.

Institute for Vision Rehabilitation held its 20th Integrated Fun Camp on the 25 November 2017 at Escape Water Park. It had 460 participants including the visually impaired, their families, LVPEI staff and volunteers and also volunteers from Synchrony Financial - the funding partner.

A group of 30 students from Singapore Management University visited LVPEI on 10th November as part of their MBA Executive Exchange program. The visit was coordinated by the ISB.

A group of 10 MLAs (Member of Legislative Assembly) from Odisha visited LVPEI on 11th

November to understand the Institute’s various initiatives, specifically Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP).

Elder Wayne Hubbard and Sister Hubbard, Latter Day Saint Charities, Delhi; Ms Wheeler, photographer; visited on 26 October.

Prof J van der Steen, Professor of Neuroscience; visit: 4-6 November.

Dr Rajeshwari Mahadevan, Head of Department, Contact Lens Clinic, Sankara Netralaya, Chennai; Dr Chirag Patel, BostonSight, USA; Ms Isha Dave, Primary Eye Care Center and The Contact Lens Center, Mumbai; Mr Khemraj Nackwal, Bausch + Lomb, Haryana; Mr Nilesh Thite, Director of Educational Programs, IACLE, Pune; Mr Prasad Sawant, Clinical Associate, PROSE Provider Partner Clinic, The Eye Super Specialties, Ghatkoper, Mumbai; for ICLEP; 23-26 November.

Mr S V Sunil, President, Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints, Bangalore; for Child Sight Institute’s 20th anniversary; 30 November-1 December.

Mr Ratan Jalan, Founder and Principal Consultant, Medium Healthcare Consulting; Guest lecture: ‘If Indigo ran your hospital’; 8 November.

Dr Anand Swaroop, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Guest lecture: ‘Photoreceptor development to treatment paradigms for retinal diseases’; 30 November.

Dr Arif Khan, Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi; Guest lecture: ‘Pediatric cataract from undiagnosed systemic disease’; 30 November.

National Newborn Week, 15-21 November and World Prematurity Day on 17 November 2017 had the following events:• TheLVPEIteam,representedbyDr Subhadra Jalali, was honoured to receive the unique and

precious ROP surgery instruments originally tailor-made for Prof Tatsuo Hirose and late Dr Charles Schepens - the pioneers of ROP surgery and retinal detachment surgery. This was facilitated by Dr Mehta, Retina Specialist in Boston.

• The coffee tablebook ‘Time toSee’ presented toQueenElizabeth II, publishedbyQueenElizabethDiamondJubileeTrust (QDJT) incollaborationwithStandardCharteredBank,featured Dr Subhadra Jalali and the ROP work at LVPEI and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI).

• AnawarenesstalkwasdeliveredbyDrSubhadraJalaliforpediatricdoctorsandsupportstaffat Hyderabad based Niloufer Hospital.

1st Anniversary - Godavarthi Satyanarayana Murthy Eye Centre, Kapileswarapuram, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh; 4 November.

12th Anniversary - Bijnapally Vision Centre, Nagarkurnool District, Telangana; 9 November.

10th Anniversary - Bela Vision Centre, Adilabad District, Telangana; 14 November.

2nd Anniversary - Denkada Vision Centre, Vizianagaram District, Andhra Pradesh; 14 November.

12th Anniversary - Indravelly Vision Centre, Adilabad District, Telangana; 15 November.

2nd Anniversary - Vallampudi Vision Centre, Vizianagaram District, Andhra Pradesh; 15 November.

12th Anniversary - Tanur Vision Centre, Adilabad District, Telangana; 22 November.

12th Anniversary - Boath Vision Centre, Adilabad District, Telangana; 30 November.

Anniversaries

#160 Therubali Vision Centre in Rayagada District, Odisha was inaugurated on 26 November 2017 with funding support from Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd through its CSR arm, Bansidhar & Ila Panda Foundation. Sri Subhrakant Panda, MD and CEO, Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd , did the honours, in the presence of his colleagues Sri Deepak Kumar Mohanty, Head - Ferro Alloys Business Unit; Sri K V Rao, Sr GM; and Shri Trijib Chandra Hota, Exec VP - Bansidhar & Ila Panda Foundation.