LVPEI Eye and Brain Center, and Child Sight Institute attend 13th ASNOS Conference

Faculty and fellows from the Eye and Brain Center and the Child Sight Institute at L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) took part in the 13th Conference of the Asian Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (ASNOS), held with the 8th Annual Conference of the Indian Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (INOS) at AIIMS, New Delhi, from October 2–4, 2026.

LVPEI faculty won 4 awards, and chaired around 12 sessions and gave six invited talks. Faculty, fellows and research optometrists presented 14 cases and free papers, and our alumni put forward 24 presentations.

Invited talks

• Dr Ramesh Kekunnaya on Saccadic Instantiation Failure or Oculomotor Apraxia: Eye Movements as a Clue to Brain Disease
• Dr Manjushree Bhate on Congenital Optic Disc Anomalies and Neuroradiological Correlations
• Dr Sampada Kulkarni on Cancer and the Eye
• Dr Vivekanand Uttamrao Warkad on Optic Atrophy in Wolfram (DIDMOD) Syndrome
• Dr Charanya Ramachandran on Characterizing the Resident Cells in the Lamina Cribrosa and Optic Nerve
• Dr Virender Sachdeva on Double-Seronegative Optic Neuritis in India: Our Experience

Awards

• Dr Adeline Shona Lasrado won Best Paper for ‘Pediatric Ocular Myasthenia: Distinguishing Juvenile-Onset Myasthenia Gravis from Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes’
• Dr Rohan Nalawade won Runner-Up in the category Free Paper Presentation for ‘Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Males: A Retrospective Study of Clinical Features and Outcomes’
• Dr Kiranmai Garg won Runner-Up in the category Case Presentation for ‘Seeing Through the Fog: Late-Onset Glutaric Aciduria Type I Masquerading as Recurrent Bilateral Optic Neuropathy’
• Dr Indrani Sirivella won Runner-Up in the category Poster Podium Presentation for ‘Development and Validation of a System for Vision and Oculomotor Assessment Using Virtual Reality Technology’

Alumni recognitions: Jenil Sheth (Runner-Up, Best Paper), Madhumita Gopal (Winner, ‘Walsh in Asia’ best presentation), Tripti Kadam (Best Podium Presentation) and Shrutakirty Parida (Best Poster).

Doctors Manjushree Bhate, Sampada Kulkarni, Vivek Warkad, Geeta Vemuganti, Ramesh Kekunnaya and Virender Sachdeva, faculty at LVPEI, also chaired and moderated multiple sessions.

In a special session on optic nerve regeneration, the optic nerve regeneration, eye and brain lab and neuro genetics teams, represented by Geeta Vemuganti, Charanya Ramachandran, Ramesh Kekunnaya, Virender Sachdeva and Adeline Lasrado, presented their research .

The Innovation team presented work on Buzz Wire (Preetirupa), React Neuro and Vision (Indrani Sirivella), Pupil N (Erum Nisha) and BAVIS (Monika Thakur).