Biography
Dr Manju Bhate completed her post-graduation in ophthalmology from Pune, followed by advanced training in comprehensive ophthalmology from Sydney, a long-term fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus from the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney, Australia, and a short-term training from Akron Children’s Hospital, USA.
She brings along a vast and varied experience of working in different hospitals and health care centres like John Hunter Children’s Hospital, New South Wales, as a consultant pediatric ophthalmologist and strabismologist. Later, she participated in a voluntary project, where she was actively involved in setting up a pediatric eye care service in Myanmar and training local ophthalmologists there.
Dr Bhate is a member of several prestigious Ophthalmological societies and bodies, like the Australia and New Zealand Pediatric and Strabismus Society, Asia-Pacific Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology Society, World Society of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, and the All India Ophthalmic Society. She has presented widely at various national and international conferences and has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Currently, she serves as a reviewer for many illustrious journals, including the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, Seminars in Ophthalmology, Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, and Current Eye Research. Her main areas of interest are pediatric cataract, complex strabismus, genetic eye diseases, pediatric neuro-ophthalmology, and retinopathy of prematurity.