Ophthalmology

Elisha Bartov M.D, Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology in the Edith Wolfson Medical Center and Associate Clinical professor in the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of the Tel Aviv University, Israel. . His residency and retina surgery fellowship were in the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer and he was for two years a Fulbright and Jules Stein Research and Clinical fellow at the Wilmer institute, Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Club Jules Gonin International Retina Association. He published 77 scientific papers on basic, clinical and surgical topics in Ophthalmology.

Retina surgery

Avinoam Ophir completed his medical studies and Residency in Hadassah Medical Center in Israel. During his Retina fellowship in Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, he together with another young doctor, Mark Blumenkranz, introduced the antimetabolites, primarily 5-FU, to the ophthalmology world, in order to treat non-malignant proliferating cells, especially in the prevention of postoperative scarring. Due to 5-FU efficacy in trabeculectomy, Dr. Ophir moved to specialize also in glaucoma. He explained the mechanism of MMC on bleb toxicity and how to prevent it, and also introduced the "mini-trabeculectomy" approach without radial incisions. Meanwhile he and his team found that Zn-Desferal in the cat substantially inhibited reperfusion injury following CRAO. He was appointed as chairman in the department of Ophthalmology in Hadera in 1993, associated with the Technion School of Medicine. For the last 4 years he works at the retina unit in Wolfson MC

Retina and Glaucoma

Gail completed her PhD from the University of Melbourne, Center for Eye Research Australia. She has worked with international humanitarian programs for more than 25 years. Her recent experience was focused in Pakistan, Cambodia and Vietnam. She is interested in addressing issues of quality and the barriers associated with accessing eye health care to decrease the impact of avoidable blindness.

Eye health care

M. Roy Wilson, M.D., M.S., was unanimously elected President of Wayne State University by the Board of Governors on June 5, 2013. He assumed the presidency on August 1, 2013.ChairPrior to joining Wayne State, Dr. Wilson served as deputy director for strategic scientific planning and program coordination at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Glaucoma,Ocular Hypertension treatment

Dr. Satya Prakash Singh completed his postgraduation from M.L.N medical college Allahabad, currently he is Director and Professor Department of Ophthalmology R.I.O. Allahabad India and Principal M.L.N Medical college Allahabad. His name is endorsed in the prestigious “Limca book of records 2002” for performing maximum number of surgeries in a day. He has been awarded “Best Eye Surgeon” in state in the year 2005. He was also Editor- in chief - Journal SPOSI 2013-2014. He has 118 research papers in national and international journals and invited as a guest speaker in various national and International conferences.

Cataract and Refractive Surgery

For over 20 years Mr Chitkara has established a reputation as one of the leading expert in Refractive or Corrective Eye surgery in UK and Internationally. Graduate of Manchester University Medical School in 1983 – MBChB with Honours in Physiology and Biochemistry Trained as an Eye surgeon in Manchester and North East England passing his specialist post-graduate exams and became a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologist (FRCOphth) in 1993. He developed a passion for corrective (refractive) eye surgery during his specialist training in Cornea and Refractive Surgery in USA. The fellowship was completed with distinction under Professor Marguerite McDonald in New Orleans in 1995. Prof McDonald is the first person in the world to perform Laser eye surgery and a world renowned authority in Corneal and Laser Eye surgery.

Corneal and Laser Eye surgery

Dr.Milan IZÁK is the former Head II of eye clinics Slovak Medical University Hospital FD Roosevelt in Banska Bystrica. He is an internationally recognized authority in the field of ophthalmology. He is the member of many prestigious international medical organizations. He is the member of the editorial boards of several international peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is the pioneer and inventor of many new diagnostic and therapeutic, in particular microsurgical techniques in Slovakia and Czechoslovakia.

Ophthalmology, Cataract

Hae Min Kang earned her MD at the age of 25 from Yonsei University College of Medicine where she also pursued postdoctoral studies. After completion of retinal fellowships, she is now an associate professor at Catholic Kwandong University College of Medicine with position of the head of Retinal department in International St.Mary’s Hospital. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed SCI journals, and she has been serving as an editorial board member and the expert reviewer board of repute. Her research interest lies on various retinal diseases including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and uveitis. Recently she focuses on various changes in the choroid by using enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography.

Retinal diseases including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and uveitis.

Baswati Prasanth, Specialist Ophthalmology has 10 years of vast experiences from various hospitals in India and other countries, completed her MS Ophthalmology from Armed Forces Medical College, Pune and Fellowship in Glaucoma and Anterior segment from Dr Shroffs Eye Hospital, New Delhi. She is the winner of A D Patwardhan Gold medal from university of Pune. She is the Director of Ophthalmology, Ahalia hospital, Abudhabi. She has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and has been part of several clinical trials.

Phacoemulsification, small incision cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery

Dr Gyanendra Lamichhane is practicing ophthalmology since 8 years.He has completed his MD from nepal in 2009 in first class first position with Gold Medal.He has completed ICO fellowship in Retina from Gunma university japan and Phaco training from tottori university Japan.Till now he has done more than 20,000 sight saving surgeries .He is associate professor of opthalmology.He has already been director of one of the charitable hospital in Nepal. He has conducted more than 20 free Diabetic Retinopathy Screening camps .He has more than 8 papers published in national and international journals.He is life member of Nepal Ophthalmic society,All India Ophthalmic Society,Macular Society UK and Macular Disease foundation Australia.

Phacoemulsification, Diabetic Retinopathy and AMD