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| Date: 31/12/11 |
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The annual ICICI-CNBC-TV-18 healthcare awards with a huge participation of 4000 hospitals from across the country, a highly distinguished, multi-discipline jury and scientific evaluation parameters has emerged as among the most comprehensive and authoritative verdicts of the healthcare sector. This year’s award ceremony was held on December 22nd at the Taj Palace, New Delhi presided over by Shri Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare.
Sankara Nethralaya was adjudged as the ‘Best Hospital in Ophthalmology’ in the Best Single Specialty Hospital category for the second year in succession. Dr. S. Bhaskaran, Chairman, received the award on behalf of Sankara Nethralaya.
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| Date: 19/11/11 |
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Mr. Jagaveerapandiyan, Senior Research Fellow, DBT project, Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Vision Research Foundation, was awarded the Best Poster Award, in Systems Biology, for his poster presentation, at the 80th Society of Biological Chemists meet held at CIMAP, Lucknow on 13th Nov 2011.
The poster was on “Family of Small Leucine Rich Repeats Proteoglycans Binds to Transforming Growth Factor - through their LRR Domain: Insilico Analysis”. (Pandiyan JV, Muthukumaran, Umashankar V, Sulochana KN).
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| Date: 21/10/11 |
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Dr. Jyotirmay Biswas, Director, uveitis and ocular pathology, Sankara Nethralaya, attended the 51st Annual meeting of the National Academy of Medical Sciences held on 13th October, 2011 at Bhubaneshwar. He delivered two talks at the L.V Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar which were live telecast to the other branches of LVPEI. His oration on ‘Ocular lesions in 1000 consecutive HIV positive patients in India’ won the Dr R.V Rajam Oration gold medal which was presented by the Governor of Orissa at the Convocation ceremony.
Dr. Jyotirmay Biswas has donated the cash prize of rupees 1,500 which comes with the award to the Vision Research Foundation.
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| Date: 22/07/11 |
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Dr. S. Barathi completed her Ph.D. Viva voce presentation entitled on “Beneficial effect of amino acids in advanced glycation end products induced endothelial dysfunction in bovine retina” at BITS, Pilani on 14th July 2011 and was recommended for the Doctorate by the Advisory committee members. She was guided and supervised by of Dr. Angayarkanni., in the department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
Awards Won
1. Travel grant Award in ARVO ‘ 08 , USA. for poster presentation (2008)
2. Best Oral presentation Award presentation in KBIRVO conference at Chennai (2008)
3. Travel grant / Best poster / Best Overall poster in the ASIA- ARVO, Hyd 2009.
4. Swarnalatha Punshi Award, Sankara Nethralaya, 2009
5. B.S. Narasing Rao Award for best poster in Society of Biological chemists, India, 2009
Her thesis rated publications appeared in
1.IOVS- 2010
2.Diabetes Care -2010
3.JOBDI - 2011
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Sankara Nethralaya has been awarded the ICICI Lombard-CNBC TV 18 Health care awards for best ophthalmic hospital. The Health Care Awards, which recognizes and honours India's best healthcare providers, were selected after a comprehensive judging process and evaluation by an eminent jury. The awards were presented by Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Shri. Dinesh Trivedi on December 20, 2010 at Mumbai. Dr. Rashmin Gandhi, Senior Consultant, Sankara Nethralaya, collected the award on behalf of the institution.
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| Date: 14/12/10 |
Dr. Jyotirmay Biswas, Director, Uveitis and Ocular Pathology, Sankara Nethralaya was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of Indian College of Pathologist (FIC Path) for his outstanding contributions in the field of ophthalmic pathology. He was presented with the award at the 59th Annual meeting of the Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists (IAPM) on December 9, 2010 at Hyderabad.
Dr. Biswas presented a paper “Teleophthalmic pathology: concept and practice” at the conference.
About 1250 pathologists and microbiologists, from across India, participated at the IAPM conference held from December 9-10, 2010.
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| Date: 09/12/10 |
Dr. Lingam Gopal, Director –Research, Vision Research Foundation and Consultant, Vitreroretinal Services, Sankara Nethralaya, has received the ‘Hayreh’ award for his significant scientific contribution in retina and vitreous at the recently held 19th Annual Vitreoretinal Society Conference. The award was instituted by (late) Bijayanand Patnaik, a pioneer Vitreo-Retinal surgeon, in the name of Dr. Sohan Singh Hayreh, an eminent ophthalmologist. Dr. Lingam Gopal is the first recipient of the award.
Dr. Lingam Gopal also gave a talk on “Management of Retinal Detachment with Choroidal Coloboma” at the conference held at Mysore from Dec 2-4, 2010.
Prior to receiving the Hayreh award, Dr. Lingam Gopal was honoured for his outstanding contribution in ophthalmology both at the Uttarakand State Ophthalmologic Society (UKSOS) conference and at the Kerala State Ophthalmologic Society (KSOS) conference. At the UKSOS conference, held on October 23 & 24, 2010 at Dehradun, Dr. Lingam Gopal received the Dr. C Shekhar Grover Oration award and spoke on “Intricacies of vitreoretinal surgery.”
At the KSOS conference, held on November 26 & 27, 2010 at Kochi, he received the Dr. Alexander Gold Medal Oration award and delivered a talk on “Retinopathy of Prematurity.”
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Date: 30/11/10 |
| Date: 24/09/10 |
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| Date: 31/08/10 |
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Sankara Nethralaya Chairman Emeritus Dr. SS Badrinath was presented with the ‘Achiever’s Award’ for his relentless pursuit in providing quality and affordable eye care to the people of India. He was presented the award on the occasion of the “Loyola World Alumni Congress 2010” on August 28, 2010.
The Loyola Alumni came together to lay the foundation for the Loyola World Alumni Congress 2010 and form the Loyola Chennai Alumni Foundation, which will provide scholarship for higher education for students from the lower-socio-economic strata of society. The Father Casimir Raj Fund for Poor Students, will be established with contributions from alumni.
Loyola Alumni who participated included Union Home Minister, Mr. P Chidambaram, Mr. N. Ram, Editor-in-chief, The Hindu, Dr. T. Janardhana Rao, former Honorary Consul and Honorary Consul General, Melbourne, Australia and Mr. Shyam Kothari, businessman and Board Member, Medical Research Foundation.
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Date: 02/06/10 |
Dr. J. Biswas, Director, Uvea and Ocular Pathology, Sankara Nethralaya, participated at the first annual meeting of the Bangladesh Uvea Society on May 27, 2010 at Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Around 350 ophthalmologists participated at the inaugural session. Dr. Biswas spoke on the ‘Diagnostic and Therapeutic challenges in Uveitis,’ ‘Algorithm of Diagnostic management of choroiditis’ and ‘Brain ticklers – Presentation of Challenging cases.’ His talks were well-received. He also conducted a quiz on Uvea.
The event was attended by noted writers and educationists.
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Date: 08/12/09 |
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Union Minister for Human Resource Development Shri. Kapil Sibal (center) presents the ‘Social Enterprise of the year’
award to Sankara Nethralaya’s Chairman Emeritus Dr. SS Badrinath
in New Delhi on December 03, 2009.
Sankara Nethralaya has been awarded the ‘Social Enterprise of the Year’ at the 5th CNBC-TV18 India Business Leader Awards. Dr. SS Badrinath, Chairman Emeritus, Sankara Nethralaya, accepted the award on behalf of the institute at a glittering ceremony held in New Delhi on December 3, 2009.
The award is presented to an NGO/CSR initiative that has shown uniqueness in the kind of outreach program it has adopted or in adapting a commercial business model for the purpose of social good & community welfare or in the sheer impact its work has had.
Present on the occasion were Kapil Sibal, Honourable Minister for Human Resource Development, Praful Patel, Minister of State-Civil Aviation and Nandan Nilekani, Head, Unique Identification Database project.
The CNBC-TV18 India Business Leader Awards honoured stalwarts of India Inc., who have emerged as legends in business leadership. The India Business Leader Awards are the most distinguished awards for excellence in leadership in Asia.
The winners were judged by eminent personalities like Mr. Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC, Mr. Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries Ltd. Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group, Mr. Uday Kotak, and Mr. Raghav Bahl, Founder Editor, Network18.
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Date: 30/11/09 |
His Holiness Dalai Lama presents the ‘Best Paper’ award to Dr. Dhanashree Ratra.
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Dr. Dhanashree Ratra, Senior Consultant, Vitreoretinal Department, was presented with the ‘Best Paper’ award at the 18th Annual Vitreoretinal Society of India meeting at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh.
Dr. Ratra was presented with the award by his Holiness Dalai Lama for her paper titled “Autofluorescence findings in Central Serous Retinopathy." The paper was a descriptive study of autofluoescence (a type of investigation which includes a photo of the patent's retina on the latest camera system-the HRA) in the Central Serous Retinopathy disease. In her paper, Dr. Ratra presented new and original information about the changes seen due to the findings which can help diagnose and successfully treat Central Serous Retinopathy.
She also delivered a talk on "Surgical management of angiomatosis retinae and allied disorders" at the meeting which was held from November 25 to November 28, 2009. The talk focussed on surgical management of the disorders, which causes abnormal vascularization on the retina, which can be treated surgically.
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Date: 30/11/09 |
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For his outstanding contributions in the field of Ophthalmology, Sankara Nethralaya’s Chairman Emeritus, Dr. SS Badrinath, was conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Madras City Ophthalmological Association (MCOA) on November 29, 2009 at a function in Chennai.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was also given to two other renowned ophthalmologists — Dr. ET Selvam and (late) Dr. J Agarwal.
Attributing the success of Sankara Nethralaya to the team work of its doctors and staff, Dr. Badrinath urged ophthalmologists to adopt the concept of group practice promoted by Sankara Nethralaya.
All-India Ophthalmological Society President Babu Rajendran lauded the contributions of the ophthalmologists and described them as the ‘Holy Trinity’ of ophthalmology.
The Hindu
http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/30/stories/2009113053900400.htm
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