Awards at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) 2025
25-28 April 2025, Los Angeles, CA
ASCRS 2025 Film Festival Winner – Glaucoma Surgery Category
Dr. R. Venkatesh, Chief Medical Officer, Aravind-Pondicherry
Title: Bleed blue: Dye today to evaluate the effectiveness of Ab-interno glaucoma surgeries
Dr. Haripriya Aravind, Chief, Intraocular Lens & Cataract Services, Aravind-Chennai
Inducted into the Prestigious, The International Intra-Ocular Implant Club (IIIC)
(Proposed by Dr. David Chang and Dr. Steve Arshinoff)
Dr. V.R. Vivekanandan, Chief, Cataract-General Ophthalmology Services, Aravind-Tirunelveli
Winner – High Impact Pearl Award in Cataract Symposium, &
ASCRS Film Festival Runner-Up in Quality Teaching Category
Title: What Not to Do – Part I
Dr. Sathya T. Ravilla, Chief, Paediatric Ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus Services, Aravind-Tirupati
ASCRS 2025 Film Festival Winner – In-House Productions
Title: Aberrations for dummies!
Dr. Seema Ramakrishnan, Medical Consultant, Cornea Services, Aravind-Chennai
ASCRS 2025 Film Festival Runner-up in Special Interest Category
Title: Convertible irrigation aspiration: A zero-cost innovation for cortex removal in difficult situations
Dr. Devendra Maheswari, Medical Consultant, Glaucoma Services, Aravind-Tirunelveli
Best Paper of the Session on Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) II
Title: Comparative study of surgical outcomes in Gonioscopy assisted transluminal combined with phacoemulsification in POAG vs PACG
Dr. R. Sankarananthan, Medical Consultant, Cataract & Uvea Services, Aravind-Salem
Best Paper of the Session on Cataract Surgery-Techniques
Title: Impact of virtual reality simulator-based training in reducing complications in cataract surgery: A comparative analysis
26th Congress of the International Society for Geographical and Epidemiological Ophthalmology (ISGEO)
Nepal, 27-28 April 2025
B.S. Ganesh Babu, Senior Faculty, LAICO, won the best paper award in the podium presentation at the ISGEO Conference 2025, held at Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology, Kathmandu.
Title: Novel approach for enhancing Effective Cataract Surgical Coverage (eCSC) and effective Refractive Error Coverage (eREC): Lessons from a pilot initiative at Aravind Eye Hospital (AEH), INDIA
