Team LVPEI Wins Several Prestigious Awards at AIOC 2021

At the virtual edition of the All India Ophthalmological Conference (AIOC) organized by the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS): 

Dr Taraprasad Das: Delivered the prestigious Dr. SS Badrinath Endowment Lecture; topic – Understanding the science of fungal endophthalmitis

Dr Tapas Ranjan Padhi: Received the ‘Col. Rangachari – Best Free Paper Award’ and the ‘Best Paper in Vitreo-Retinal Diseases’; Title: Can rate of vascular outgrowth be a predictor for treatment in babies with ROP? 

Dr Vivek Dave: Received (a) ‘Narsing A Rao – Best Free Paper Award – Uvea Section’; Title: Comparative outcomes in endophthalmitis caused by biofilm positive and biofilm negative bacteria (b) Best free paper – Vitreo Retinal Diseases -1 session; Title Sub-retinal injection of stem cell-derived RPE cells: 6 months safety and integration in a rat model

Dr Sujata Das: K R Dutta Award for her work in the area of Community Eye Banking

Dr Sunita Chaurasia: Received the ‘AIOS-IJO Platinum Award’ as corresponding author for the IJO publication entitled: Acute endophthalmitis after penetrating and endothelial keratoplasty at a tertiary eye care center over a 13-year period; First author: Shilpa Das, Co-authours: Muralidhar Ramappa, Ashik Mohamed, Savitri Sharma and Taraprasad Das

Dr Swapna Shanbhag: IJO Honour Award for Peer Review

Dr Mudit Tyagi: ‘Certificate of Merit’ for the paper entitled: Clinical manifestations and outcomes of ocular syphilis in Asian Indian population: Analysis of cases presenting to a tertiary referral center; Co-authors: Hrishikesh Kaza, Avinash Pathengay, Hitesh Agrawal, Umesh Behera, LodhaD, Rajeev R Pappuru , Soumayava Basu, and Somasheila Murthy

Dr Rashmi Krishnamurthy: Honoured as ‘International Ophthalmic Hero of India’ 

Dr Anasua Ganguly Kapoor: Second prize in photography competition – Ophthalmic Category; Picture title: A Classic Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia