International
Deepak K Bagga
Travel grant from International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation to attend the International Conference on Low Vision at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in February 2011
Ujwala Baheti
Accepted by Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infi rmary, MA, USA, for a research fellowship, beginning July 2011. She is one of LVPEI's fi rst batch of residents.
Murali Mohan Sagar Balla
ARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting at Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. May 2010
Sujata Das
AFER/ARVO Developing Country Eye Researcher Fellowship (DCERF) Award [The ARVO Foundation for Eye Research (AFER)/The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)]
Subhadra Jalali
- Appointed on the editorial board of World Journal of Vitreoretinal Diseases>
- Invited to be one of the fi ve judges for the prestigious Dodt Award and also chairperson for poster session B at ISCEV 2010 in Perth, Australia
Inderjeet Kaur
International Society for Eye Research (ISER) Travel fellowship (USA) to attend the International Congress on Eye Research at Montreal, Canada. July 2010
Video Awards
INTERNATIONAL
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery fi lm festival, Boston, USA (April 2010)
Best fi lm in quality teaching category: Peripheral ulcerative keratitis: An enigma for clinicians – Dr Merle Fernandes,Dr Madhushmita Das, Dr Virender S Sangwan
Runner-up prize in special interest category: OSSN: Tips and tricks – Dr Savari Desai, Dr Santosh Honavar
25th Asia Pacifi c Academy of Ophthalmology joint meeting with American Academy of Ophthalmology, Beijing, China (September 2010)
Best of Show Video: Deep Sclerectomy with CO2 –Dr G Chandra Sekhar, Dr Sirisha Senthil, Dr Anil K Mandal
XXVIII Congress of European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons & XX EURETINA (European
Society of Retina Specialists) meeting, Paris, France (September 2010)
Second prize in fi lm festival: Dancing nematodes in the eye – Dr Avinash Pathengay, Dr Soumyava Basu, Dr G William Aylward, Dr Biju Raju
S Krishnaiah
Prof Yasuo Tano Travel Grant for Asia Pacifi c Academy of Ophthalmology Congress 2011 at Sydney, Australia. March 2011
Indumathi Mariappan
ARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting in May 2011
Manju Meena
Illumina travel fellowship grant and CSIR foreign travel grant for Asia ARVO meeting at Singapore. January 2011
Ashik Mohamed
ARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting in May 2011
Milind Naik
Appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine and Dentistry,University of Rochester Medical Centre, Rochester, NY,USA
Vidya Latha Parsam
ARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting at Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. May 2010
D Srikanth
ARVO travel grant for poster presentation at Asia ARVO meeting in Singapore. January 2011
P Veerendranath
ARVO travel grant to attend ARVO meeting in May 2011
Geeta K Vemuganti
ICMR travel grant to attend the World Ophthalmic Congress, Berlin, Germany. June 2010
Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Middle East Africa Council of Ophthalmology, Chicago, USA (October 2010)
AAO Best of Show Video: Sebaceous Gland Carcinoma: The leading masquerade – Dr Surbhi D Joshi, Dr Santosh G Honavar, Dr Geeta K Vemuganti, Dr Milind N Naik, Dr Mohd Javed Ali
NATIONAL
Ophthalmic Premiere League competition, annual East India Zonal Ophthalmic Conference, Disha Eye Hospital, Kolkata (June 2010)
First Prize: Sameer Mahapatra, as part of the Orissa State team, for the entry from LVPEI, Bhubaneswar
Andhra Pradesh Ophthalmological Society annual meeting, Hyderabad (October 2010)
Swarup Medal: 20 years of comprehensive care for children with congenital glaucoma – Dr Anil Kumar Mandal
Paradigm 2010, 21st annual conference of Oculoplastics Association of India, Mumbai (November 2010)
Best Video Award: Non surgical management of congenital eyelid malformations – Dr Manju Meena