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Mr. A V Chettiar, Vice President of Mauritius visited Sankara Nethralaya on 15-11-2007

      

Sankara Nethralaya & the government of Mauritius have an agreement whereby, patients with complicated eye problem like Vitreo retinal are sent to Sankara Nethralaya for treatment. His Excellency, Mr. A V Chettiar vice-president, Republic of Mauritius visited Sankara Nethralaya on 15-11-2007. He interacted with some of the Mauritius patients currently undergoing treatment. He was accompanied by Mr. V Raman, from Mauritius Consulate

Meeting with Dr. Claybourne Stephens (Motif Biosciences, USA)

       

Joel Clayborne Stephens, Ph.D., SVP and Chief Scientific Officer of Motif Biosciences, USA visited Sankara Nethralaya on 14-11-2007.  He had discussions about possible collaboration with Vision Research Foundation on mapping disease genes for ophthalmic diseases. Motif Biosciences Inc. is a population genetics company seeking to identify the genetic causes of major diseases by working with a unique, rich, and defensible source of human genetic data from populations throughout the world. Previously, Mr. Stephens was Vice President of Genetics and Executive Director of Population Genomics at Genaissance Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GNSC) in New Haven, CT. Prior to that, Clay had served as a Principal Investigator, Head of Bioinformatics Group, and a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institute of Health, NCI, DBS Laboratory of Genomic Diversity.

Childrens' day celebrations at Sankara Nethralaya

    

Sankara Nethralaya and ORBIS pediatric learning and training centre celebrated Childrens' day in a very grand manner. Free clinical examination was conducted to all children below 16years.

Dr T S Surendran, Vice Chairman of Sankara Nethralaya and Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology Department along with his associates addressed the importance of vision care in children. More than 100 children were screened. Toys and sweets were distributed. A drawing competition was conducted and prizes were given to the winners

Rays of 95

             

Round Table is an organization of non-political and non-sectarian young men between the age group of 18 and 40. Its aim is to promote service, fellowship and goodwill in National and International affairs. Round Table India believes in Community Service through the Fellowship of its members. The unique feature of this organization is that it always remains young, because the Tablers retire when they turn 40, giving way to younger people.

“Rays of 95” is a program, conceived by MMRT 95 to provide for complex surgeries such as retinal detachment, glaucoma to poor patients through Sankara Nethralaya over a period of 1 year.  While there are a number of benefactors for minor ophthalmic surgeries, the major surgeries do not find many takers due to the cost. It is this gap that MMRT wishes to address

MMRT 95 is proposing to make this a regular annual contribution thereby deepening its commitment to provide for complicated ophthalmic surgeries to the poor and indigent.”

http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/13/stories/2007111362600200.htm

Inauguration of Dr G Sitalakshmi Memorial clinic for ocular surface disorders

       

The inauguration of Dr G Sitalakshmi Memorial clinic for ocular surface disorders was held on 05^th November 2007 at Sankara Nethralaya. The occasion marked the dedication of the ocular surface clinic in memory of Dr. G Sitalakshmi and the launch of the “MOOKP Training Programme”.

Dr. S S Badrinath, Chairman Emeritus, welcomed the gathering and reminisced the great work done by Dr. G Sitalakshmi.  He was extremely appreciative of and grateful to Prof. Falcinelli for all his contribution towards the initiation of the MOOKP procedure in India at Sankara Nethralaya.   Dr. Geetha Iyer spoke about the genesis of the ocular surface clinic at SN which offers comprehensive management of dry eye and ocular surface disorders.  Our results of the MOOKP procedure were presented by Dr. S Vinay.   Dr. Bhaskar Srinivasan spoke regarding the need for a training programme for MOOKP.   Prof. Falcinelli remembered Dr. GS with choking emotions and innumerable words of praise for her skills and as a person.   He mentioned that the most appropriate tribute to her would be to continue the good work done by her. 

http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/06/stories/2007110661810700.htm

Visitors from Oman Consulate

Mr Abdullah Mujaini, Dr Abraham Varghes & Mr Ali BinNasser Al Kindi, Health Attache from Oman visited Sankara Nethralaya on 09th November

      

GUEST LECTURE BY VINAY K JAIN from Texas USA

Dr Vinay K Jain Medical Oncologist from Dallas,Texas,USA delivered a lecture about JIV DAYA FOUNDATION, which is dedicated to improving pediatric oncology care around the world. He is the CEO of Jiv Daya foundation & also the President of Indo-American cancer association. He discussed about India Pediatric Oncology initiative (IPOI), the mission of Jiv Daya foundation which is an educational outreach programme for professionals in health care field in India who want to help children with cancer. He discussed about the plans of his foundation which was to Identify Indian Institutions which are interested in developing a pediatric oncology program, devising a training plan for the health care professionals & implementing the same

 

Team from Facor Alloys Ltd Visited Sankara Nethralaya on 02-11-2007

Mr Yogesh Saraf, Joint managing Director of Facor Alloys Ltd, Mrs Yogesh Saraf, Mr R.G.Chari General Manager-South Zone Facor Alloys Ltd & Mr Pankaj Sharaf, GM-Accounts of Facor Alloys Ltd. visited Sankara Nethralaya on 02nd November. They were taken on a hospital tour besides meeting Dr S S Badrinath and other Senior members at the Board Room

         

Team from TCS visited Sankara Nethralaya on 31-10-2007

Sankara Nethralaya has been working in partnership with Tata Consultancy Services to implement the Electronic Medical Records Maintenance system for the past 6 years

                   

Mr. S Balasubramaniaya, Vice president-Global health care practice, Dr Sumanth C Raman, Consultant-health care practice & P K Sivaramakrishnan, Head-delivery center Chennai, had visited SN to explore the possibilities of strengthening the relationship between SN & TCS further in the area of health care in India. They were very happy with the EMR developed with expertise by Sankara Nethralaya & they wished it finds wide use among the ophthalmic fraternity. Dr Lingam Gopal, Chairman-Sankara Nethralaya also impressed upon implementing newer technologies to enable EMR further.