Dr. J. Agarwal, a doyen in the field of Ophthalmology, with a mission of vision, had inculcated the great Indian tradition of Sacrifice and Charity. He had been instrumental in giving gift of vision to everyone. Son of Late Dr. R. S. Agarwal, he was born on 24th Sept.1930 and started his career in a humble way with a passionate desire to create an Eye hospital to eradicate blindness along with his wife late Dr. Mrs. T. Agarwal in Chennai (Madras), India. Profound Humanism, Pragmatic approach, platonic nature, pert disposition, pristine thinking and pronounced ingenuity saw him excel in his profession and made him first among equals. He conducted many eye camps in villages around Chennai and treated and operated lakhs of patients. He pioneered Eye Donation Campaign for the treatment of corneal blindness and the screening of school children for defective vision.
Dr. J. Agarwal Founder of Dr.Agarwal´s Group of Eye Hospitals was the proud recipient of the Padma Bhushan from then President of India, Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalaam in March 2006. Dr. J. Agarwal passed away on 15th November 2009. He was the pioneer to start Refractive keratoplasty with the cryolathe in India and was also first to start cryoextraction in the 1960´s. It was his concept of having an eye hospital in a human eye shape and his wife Dr. Mrs. T. Agarwal transformed the concept into existence, which got recognized in the Ripley´s Believe It or Not. The other discoveries and inventions from the hospital are like Phakonit, 700 micron cataract surgery; No Anesthesia Cataract Surgery; Aberropia and Gas Forced Infusion (air pump) in cataract surgery. The most recent invention was the Glued IOL in which an IOL was fixated in an eye using tissue glue. These inventions would not have come to light had it not been for the undying efforts of Dr. J. Agarwal.
The pinnacle of glory was achieved when he became the President of All India Ophthalmological Society in 1992. He was also the President of Tamilnadu Ophthalmic Association and Madras City Ophthalmological Association. Received Life Time Achievement Awards from the All India Ophthalmological Society and Tamilnadu Ophthalmic Association in recognition of his Yeoman services to the people of Tamilnadu and Ophthalmic fraternity. He received honours from Singapore National Eye Center, Eye Donation Society - Sri Lanka ; Bascom Palmer Eye Institute- Miami, USA ; Barraquer Eye Institute Bogota, Colombia and many more.
Dr. Mrs T Agarwal, his beloved wife with whom he created the Dr. Agarwal´s Group of Eye Hospitals passed away on April 13th 2009. Legacy is carried ahead by his daughter and son along with four grandsons.
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Dr.Mrs.T.Agarwal, F.I.C.S., D.O.M.S.(Lon)., F.O.R.C.E. Managing Director of Dr.Agarwal´s Eye Hospital was the Managing Director of Dr.Agarwal Eye Hospital. She along with her husband Dr.J.Agarwal started Dr.Agarwal´s Eye Hospital in 1957, which today has 47 branches and examining 3000 patients in a day. For the first time, she conceived and executed the idea of an eye hospital in the shape of an eye. The only one of its kind in the World acknowledged by Ripleys Believe It Or Not.
She was the first to introduce cryosurgery in the treatment of cataracts in India in 1967 and also the first to perform Refractive Surgery using Cryolathe in 1981.
She has performed more than 20,000 procedures of Zyoptix/Lasik for correcting refractive errors.
She has conducted special eye camps for women and children. She has played a pivotal role in training general physicians in removing the eyes after death and propagating eye donation. She established links with International Eye Bank, Sri Lanka in 1974 and paved the way for getting eyes for India from Sri Lanka.She passed away on 13th April 2009 after a brief illness.
She was the recipient of "P.Siva Reddy Gold Medal" by the All India Ophthalmological Society for the paper on "Refractive Keratoplasty" and "Bharatiya Mahila Ratna Award" by Front for National Progress and 21st Century Development council on 24th September 1999 in Bangalore.
She has written a book CARE OF EYES for the lay public and contributed many chapters in other books.She was a good teacher. Her eyes have been donated as per her request.
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Sudha is trained expert in contact lenses and artificial eyes, she has also presented several papers on contact lenses and won several awards, currently she is serving as Director and as Principal - Shri Prakash Institute of Optometry
A mathematics graduate by qualification, he started his career as a medical representative in Pfizer. He then moved to Allergan, the global leader in Ophthalmology as a brand manager.Rajagopalan moved from Allergan to Microlabs, one of the India's leading pharmaceutical Company as president in 1999. He was instrumental in drawing up strategic road map for Microlabs, during which he saw Microlabs extend its global foot print and achieve a turnover of INR 100 crs. During his stint with Microlabs, he had an opportunity to head an ophthalmic drug manufacturing plant which was approved by US FDA. Rajagopalan joined DAEH during January 2006. His passion and knowledge gathered during the period 1995-2006 in the field of ophthalmology related to medicines and equipments and his in-depth knowledge about the Indian ophthalmic space helped him to identify un-tapped potential in eye care which has positioned DAEH as a leader in eye care services. Rajagoplan is responsible for overall management of the Company and heads the strategic initiatives. He has been instrumental in the exponential growth of the company in the last 3 years through a mix of organic & inorganic growth. He has been the architect in creating a unique and robust business model for the Company.
MA - Economics, MBA, PD Diploma in Hospital Management, PG Diploma in Pharmaceutical Marketing
He has vast experience spanning 29 Years which includes 15 Years in Defence Operations, 5 Years in Business Development & 3 Years of Operations in a leading Pharmaceutical Company, before joining Dr. Agarwal's.
Mr. V. Suresh is currently heading the operations at Dr. Agarwal's for the past 5 Years. He is instrumental in implementing Corporate Governance.
Chairman Scientific Committee: Intraocular Implant & Refractive Society, INDIA.
Chairman Cum Managing Director (CMD): Dr.Agarwal"s Eye Hospital Ltd.,Chennai
Prof. Amar Agarwal is the pioneer of Phakonit which is Phako with a Needle Incision Technology. This technique became popularized as Bimanual phaco, Microincision cataract surgery (MICS) or Microphaco. He is the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7 mm tip with the technique called Microphakonit. He has also discovered No anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT a new technique to remove dropped nuclei. The air pump which was a simple idea of using an aquarium fish pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery. He was also the first to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes and publishing the details in his 4 volume textbook of ophthalmology. He has also discovered a new refractive error called Aberropia. He has also been the first to do a combined surgery of microphakonit (700 micron cataract surgery) with a 25 gauge vitrectomy in the same patient thus having the smallest incisions possible for cataract and vitrectomy. He is also the first surgeon to implant a new mirror telescopic IOL (LMI) for patients suffering from age related macular degeneration. He has also been the first in the world to implant a Glued IOL. In this a PC IOL is fixed in an eye without any capsules using fibrin glue. The Malyugin ring for small pupil cataract surgery was also modified by him as the Agarwal modification of the Malyugin ring for miotic pupil cataract surgeries with posterior capsular defects. Dr.Agarwal"s eye hospital has also done for the first time an Anterior segment transplantation in a 4 month old child with anterior staphyloma.
Prof. Amar Agarwal has received many awards for his work done in ophthalmology most significant being the BARRAQUER AWARD and the KELMAN AWARD. His videos have won many awards at the film festivals of ASCRS, AAO and ESCRS. He has also written more than 50 books which have been published in various languages- English, Spanish and Polish. He also trains doctors from all over the world in his center on phaco, bimanual phaco, lasik and retina. He heads Dr.Agarwals group of eye hospitals which has 47 eye hospitals. He is also Professor of Ophthalmology at Ramachandra Medical College in Chennai, India. He can be contacted at- dragarwal@vsnl.com
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She is one of the leading Anterior Segment surgeon and Ocular Pathlogist in India. She was trained in Ophthalmology and Pathology in the world famous Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, under Professor A.Garner and by Dr.Bert Glaser in USA. She has presented a number of papers at various national and international conferences. She is involved in the activities of the All India Opthalmological society and conducts training programmes for the post graduate students in modern surgical procedures. She is incharge of the research activities of the hospital.
Principal of school of optometry , Contact lens specialist and trained in Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Is actively a Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist and Head of the Department of Orbit & Oculoplasty and Cornea & Refractive Surgery in Dr. Agarwal"s Eye Hospital, Chennai, India. She is a gold medalist in Ophthalmology. She has won many international awards for video films and challenging cases at prestigious international conferences in the USA (American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, American Academy of Ophthalmology), Europe (World Ophthalmology Conference, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery) as well as the Special Gold Medal of the Indian Intra-ocular Implant and Refractive Society (IIRSI). She is a noted speaker and has been invited to conduct courses and deliver lectures in numerous national and international (American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, American Academy of Ophthalmology, International Society of Refractive Surgery, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Egyptian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Jordanian Society Of Ophthalmology, Middle East African Council of Ophthalmology etc) conferences. She has special interest in cutting edge surgical techniques for cataract, cornea, glaucoma, and refractive surgery including intra-stromal ring segments, ocular surface reconstruction, subluxated cataracts, new refractive solutions and so on. Many videos on her surgeries and surgical techniques have been featured as Editor"s Choice Video on many prestigious International Ophthalmic websites (American Academy of Ophthalmology/ Ophthalmic News and Education network, International Society of Refractive Surgery, Eyetube etc)
Dr.Jacob was the first to bring out the concept of Anterior segment transplantation which was featured in all major newspapers and on India Today as one of the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs in 2009. In this the cornea, sclera and an artifical iris, pupil and IOL are transplanted enbloc in patients with anterior staphyloma. She also devised a new technique in the surgery of ptosis where in the sling surgery can be done with primarily a one stab incision rather than three thus dramatically improving the post operative cosmetic appearance of the patient as compared to previous techniques. She has devised two new techniques – the Turnaround technique and the Double Pass Turnaround technique for successful completion of Femtosecond laser assisted Intacs implantation in eyes with false channel dissection for both symmetric and asymmetric Intacs segments. She has also described a new technique of Relaxing Descemetotomy for Taut Descemet´s Membrane Detachment in the cornea and has proposed a new classification system and treatment algorithm for Descemet´s membrane detachments.
She is actively involved in cornea, refractive surgery, cataract and oculoplasty (cosmetic and reconstructive) and orbital surgeries. She is proficient in anterior segment surgeries having performed more than 10,000 cataract surgeries including more than 7000 phacoemulsifications. She has extensive experience with complicated cases in cornea and refractive surgery, keratoconus, as well as in Oculoplasty and orbit. She is proficient in performing glaucoma surgeries, corneal grafts, lamellar keratoplasties, endothelial keratoplasties including Descemet´s membrane endothelial keratoplasty, IntraLase enabled keratoplasty, eccentric keratoplasty, Boston keratoprosthesis, Ocular surface disorders, LASIK/ Zyoptix/ IntraLase etc.
She has authored numerous peer reviewed publications as well as numerous chapters in 28 textbooks by international and national publishers and is also the editor for 10 textbooks in Ophthalmology. She is amongst the senior faculty for the DNB (Diplomate of National Board) postgraduate training programme and phacoemulsification training programme for overseas doctors. She heads the National as well as International training programme for Cornea & Refractive and Oculoplastics.
She takes particular interest in Community Ophthalmology and has been an active participant in the free eye screening programmes, free cataract surgery base camps and visual rehabilitation of the underprivileged as well as School education and screening programmes in the local community. She has been involved in more than 3500 such eye camps. These camps have treated more than 6 lakh patients and more than 2.5 lakh have been operated free of cost. She is on the editorial boards of the American Academy of Ophthalmology – International Society of Refractive Surgery Multimedia Library and of the Ocular Surgery News – Asia Pacific Edition, and is also an executive committee member of the Indian Intra-ocular Implant and Refractive Society. Her life and work has been featured on the cover page of Ocular Surgery News: "Ophthalmic Innovator balances love of surgery, research and teaching" She can be contacted at dr_soosanj@hotmail.com. The hospital website address is www.dragarwal.com.
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Phaco WITH PCIOL, SICS, Suturless Technique, Antiglaucoma Surgeries, Penetrating Keratoplasty, Squint, Oculoplastic surgery, Retinal Laser, Assisted Retinal detachment surgeries, Vitrectomy, Orbscan Topography, Aberrometry, Fundus Fluorescein Angiography, Automated Perimetry, Ooptical Coherence Tomography(O.C.T.) etc.
Heading the Neuro-Ophthalmology department at Dr. Agarwal"s Eye Hospital. Has contributed for the book "Manual of Neuro-Ophthalmology" authoured by Prof. Amar Agarwal and Dr. Athiya Agarwal. Actively involved in Post-Graduates training programmes. Proficient in phaco-emulsification and antiglacuoma surgeries.
Specialised in Anterior segment. Phacoemulsification surgeries, Phakonit, Penetrating Keratoplasties and Glaucoma. Specialized in Zyoptix-100 refractive surgery also. Has trained more than 500 ophthalmologists around the globe in Phacoemulsification surgeries. Has contributed chapters in books like Bimanual Phako, Phacoemulsification, etc.,
Specialised in Extra Capsular & Phaco-emulsification
Heads the Pediatric Ophthalmology department. Specialised in Extra Capsular & Phacoemulsfiication with PCIOL. Acted as a Co-ordinator in DNB examinations.
Well Experienced in Vitreo-Retinal and Retinal Laser procedures. Has contributed to articles and presented Papers in Ophthalmic Conferences.
Dr.Divya Ashok Kumar did her Ophthalmology residency training from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She is a consultant in Oculoplasty, Uveitis and Anterior segment diseases. She currently is involved in research work in newer IOL implantation, Anterior segment OCT and Aberropia. Her works have been published in leading peer review journals, books and presented in international conferences.
Dr. Gaurav Prakash is a cornea and refractive surgery specialist . He has done his ophthalmic residency and corneal fellowship ( senior residency) from the reputed All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Dr.Gaurav Prakash has extensive experience in refractive surgery procedures and corneal procedures. He performs state of the art refractive procedures like intralase ( blade free lasik), sub bowman keratomelusis, wavefront guided , iris recognition based lasik and advanced surface ablation ( wavefront guided epilasik , PRK ).He also specializes in wavefront lasik enhancement for previous refractive procedures like radial keratotomy and astigmatic keratotomy and plano-lasik.
He is experienced in performing customized component corneal procedures : Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty , DSAEK, ALTK and other latest corneal procedures including limbal stem cell transplant, intralase assisted keratoplasty, amniotic membrane transplant , intrastromal rings and collagen cross linking.
He is also an avid academician- scientist and has worked extensively on higher order aberrations , the scientific rationale behind customized / wavefront guided lasik.He has alos published his work on SBK or thin flap lasik. He has interests spanning wavefront optics, aberropia , glued intraocular lens, refractive surgery, corneal disorders, and opthalmic instruments. He has published his research in high quality ophthalmology journals and is a reviewer for many leading journals. He has presented his work in international conferences. He is a regular speaker at national conferences as a guest faculty and trainer for national and international trainees.
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He has more than 25 years of experience in varied industries including engineering, electrical components, defence electronics, automobile ancillary, chemical, and water treatment industries.
He has worked in public and private sector undertakings like BHEL, BEL, TII and Chemfab Alkalies in the functional areas of Corporate Finance, Accounts, Internal Audit, Direct & Indirect Taxes and Secretarial Practice and Compliance.