OnDemand - Visiting Professor June 2022 - N. Venkatesh Prajna, MD, David M. Paton, MD Lectureship in Academic Global Ophthalmology [NON-CME]

Visiting Professor Lecture - June 2022 - Recorded June 1, 2022
Featuring N. Venkatesh Prajna, MD - David M. Paton, MD lectureship in Academic Global Ophthalmology

Dr. N. Venkatesh Prajna completed his MBBS from Madurai Medical College in 1989 and completed residency at Aravind Eye Hospital. He was conferred the FRCOphth from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, UK in 2003. He has been consulting in Aravind as a consultant in the Department of Cornea Services for over two decades and has been the head of the department for the past ten years. He has been instrumental in developing the department to be one of the largest cornea facilities in India, seeing a large number of infectious keratitis patients. Apart from his clinical commitments, he has a special interest in basic and clinical research pertaining to corneal infection.

He is the Academic Director of Aravind Eye Care System and a Professor of Ophthalmology and oversees a residency program of sixty residents on average. In addition, he manages the training program of international residents as well as ophthalmologists in short-term training courses. He has over 150 peer reviewed publications in the leading international and national ophthalmology journals and is a peer reviewer for many prestigious journals. He is the Chief Editor for Peyman’s Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology, 2nd edition, that compiles contributions from 300 contributors from 15 countries. He serves in the Advisory Board of JAMA Ophthalmology.

For the past year, he has taken the additional responsibility as the Finance Director of Aravind Eye Care System.

Dr. Prajna will be speaking about his research in fungal keratitis, the vision care and training network of Aravind hospital. Following his lecture, Eliza Barnwell, MD, Rakhi Melvani, MD and Ollya Fromal, MD, Academic Global Ophthalmology Fellows, 2021-2022.

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