Malaysia, 11-13 July

Doctors from Aravind Eye Hospitals, participated in the 5^th World Congress of Paediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus in conjunction with 14^th Malaysian Society of Ophthalmology Annual Scientific meeting, held at Kuala Lumpur,  and presented papers, posters, and videos at various sessions.  Dr. P. Vijayalakshmi, Senior Medical Consultant, Paediatric Ophthalmology Services, Aravind-Madurai, was one among the four key note speakers. She spoke on the topic, Transforming disability (visual) to ability in children. It was a proud moment for the Aravind Alumni and participants during the conference when Dr. P. Vijayalakshmi received a standing ovation after delivering her talk.

Dr. Kalpana Narendran

• Secondary IOL Implantation in Children

Dr. B. Sahithya

• Referal uptake in school screening among children poster village (Oral Presentation)
• Comparetive study on outreach screening model vs hospital based screening for children with multi disabilities (Poster village – Oral presentation)
• Smart vision glasses (Video presentation)

Dr. M. Elackiya

• Straatsma syndrome: Clinical profile – a case series (poster)
• Deciphering the telltake sign: Pursuit dysfunction in a kid leads way to detection of medulloblastoma (Video presentation)

Dr. Shashikant Shetty

• Nystagmus session (Moderator)
• Syndromes associated with strabismus along with management (Moderator)
• Non surgical management of nystagmus (Talk)

Dr. Sneha Pandurangan

• Long term post operative followup outcome in paediatric cataract surgery in a tertiary care Institute (Free paper)
• Pattern of progression and characteristics of infantile myopia (e-Poster:)

Dr. Nithya Sridharan

• Rise of acute comitent esotropia post covid-19 lockdown (Paper presentation)

Dr. Anjali Khadia

• Surgical outcomes of esotropia in children: A retrospective comparative study (Poster)
• Clinical profile of paediatric strabismus in a Tertiary Eye Care Hospital in South India (Poster)
• Magic ball of strabismus (Video presentation)
• A simple way for teaching residents on the strabismus examination (Video presentation)

Dr. Ankita Bisani

• Combined unilateral strabismus and cataract surgery (StaCS) in adults: safety, efficacy and predictive factors (Free paper)
• Straastma syndrome – Peadiatric case series (e-Poster)
• Combination of strabismus surgeries with other anterior segments surgeries – Two targets with one shot (Video presentation)

Dr. R. Janani

• Surgical management of third nerve palsy, a comparison of lateral rectus deactivation combined with medial rectus resection versus medial rectus fixation to medial palpebral ligament (Free paper)
• A rare case in a child with mild trichothiodystrophy associated with ERCC2 gene (e-Poster)
• Help Me Train: Squint surgery simulation model (Video presentation)

Dr. Anupama Janardhanan

• Customised Augmented Kestenbaum – Anderson surgery: A novel technique for Infantile nystagmus with large Abnormal head posture! (Poster Village presentations)
• Clinical characteristics, visual outcome and a new classification of pediatric posterior polar cataracts.
• Skew deviation with internuclear ophthalmoplegia post covid vaccination: A rare case report (e-Poster)

Dr. A. Fathima

• HIDDEN SURPRISE: Management of a case of Retroflexion of Iris (Video presentation)
• Long term outcome of modified capsular tension ring fixation (mCTR) and IOL placement among paediatric patients (e-Poster)
• Refractive error profile and influencing factors among siblings (e-Poster)

Dr. Sasikala Elizabeth

• Paradigm shift in the prevalence of new onset childhood myopia: A study from a tertiary eye institute in South India (Paper)
• Analysis of identification sources, referral patterns, and clinical profiles of pediatric cataract patients at a Tertiary Eye Care Hospital (Paper)
• The journey of the child with iris cyst: A case study (Video presentation)
• Surgical management bilateral sixth nerve palsy: A case report and surgical technique demonstration (Video presentation)

Dr. Amrutha Sindhu

• Clinical profile and Visual outcome of paediatric optic neuritis- case series (Free paper)

Dr. Sathya T Ravilla

• Innovations that make paeditaric eye exam a disney experience (Video presentation)
  Video kiosk: New Flanged technique for Iridodialysis repair

Dr. Divya Shenoy

• Understanding dissociated horizontal deviations (Video presentation)
• Spectrum of eye disorders between 0-3 years age group (e-Poster)

Dr. Saranya Settu

• The magic of Faden has not faded yet! – An effective approach in incomitant strabismus (Video presentation)
• A retrospective comparison between Sanders-Retzlaff-Kraff II and Barrett II universal formula in children 9-16 years of age with developmental cataract (Poster presentation)
• Tale of two curves – Keratoconus and posterior lenticonus in a child (e-Poster)

Dr. Akila

• Surgical outcomes of exotropia with high myopia – A retrospective study (Poster presentation)
• Double surprise in a case of double elevator palsy (e-Poster)
• Duane’s retraction syndrome with Retinitis Pigmentosa – A rare atypical association (e-Poster)
• Pseudo iris cyst in traumatic cataract – A surprise decoded by UBM (Video presentation)

Punjab, 6-7 July

Aravind staff members participated in the 18th edition of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight-INDIA national conference held at Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab.

Below is the list of talks and presentations by Aravind members.

Talks:

Dr. R.D. Ravindran

• Prevalence of cataract in Indian population & management strategies
• Role of leadership in improving surgical outcome
• Minimising environmental footprint of eye care & surgery

R.D. Thulasiraj

• Role of right pricing- capacity to pay in the catchment and willingness to pay

 Dhivya Ramasamy

• Competency-based approach to staffing vision centres
• Costs and profitability

Mohammed Gowth

• Real-time learning from teleophthalmology with slit-lamp camera

 Chandravadhana H

• Sharing the experience of mentoring an eye hospital to get NABH entry level accreditation

D. Ranitha Guna Selvi

• Greening healthcare: Environmental impact reduction via vision centres

Rajesh

• Smart vision glasses: Adding value to the visually impaired

Saravanan

• Hospital cornea retrieval programme: Integrating with all levels of health care

Jerrome Selvaraj

• Impact of community-based eye health education programme on service uptake and specialty diagnosis in Vision Centres: Arogya Pariwar programme

Paper Presentations:

Jerrome Selvaraj

• Impact of pupillary dilation on retinal image quality and AI-based early detection of diabetic retinopathy among elderly patients

Vinoth Kumar Rajendran

• Annual proportion of eye injury patients presenting at vision centres: A retrospective analysis in a southern Indian population
• Impact of vision centres on achieving universal eye health coverage: prevalence, coverage, and utilisation of eye care services in Southern India

M. Vikky Kumar

• Comparison of efficacy of vision centre and comprehensive eye camps in detection of specialty cases

Akshaya R.B.

• Improving patient communication through Dhrishti mobile application system
• Use of glasses without bandage post phacoemulsification cataract surgery

S. Rajesh

• Impact of same-day cataract surgery procedures on the acceptance rate of cataract surgery at Aravind vision centres, Chennai

 Riyah Jaitika

• Analysing the safety and efficacy of a stereo coaxial illumination device for cataract surgeries
• PSDM (Patient safety daily meet): Proactive approach towards ensuring patients safety

 Revathy Kannadasan

• Introducing surgery prediction vs. actual analytics in eye care services

 Jeyaseeli Flora H

• Inclusive screening for children with multiple disabilities: An outreach model

 P Hinduja

• Cataract counselling enquiry desk to improve patient’s surgery acceptance rate

 Murugaraj G

• A study of patient digital usage habits, access, and attitudes at a high-volume eye hospital in Southern India

Udayakumar B

• Factors affecting follow-up adherence of glaucoma patients

Santhosha Ganesh

• Enhancing the performance and efficiency in glaucoma clinic: Application of lean management principal

Poster Presentation:

Sumathy

• Comprehensive preventive eye care screening for patient relatives: A catalyst for early ophthalmic disease detection

D. Ranitha Guna Selvi

• Instrumenting safe intra ocular lens implantation

Santhosha Ganesh

• Factors influencing non-adherence of follow-up in childhood glaucoma

Dhivya Ramasamy

• Patient enquiries provide valuable insight

Raichel R

• Incremental Innovation in Operation Theatre

Revathy Kannadasan

• To develop operational efficient eye care model with developing an in-house training model for allied eye care personnel (MLOP)

 Udayakumar B

• Salience effect of clinical interventions and disease progression in follow adherence of patients

Mexico, 26-27 June

Dhivya Ramasamy, Executive Director, LAICO, participated in the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) In Sight Meeting, held at Mexico, and presented a talk on the topic, Panel on sustainability and eye care.