Sankara Nethralaya. A Mission For Vision

As part of the Avicenna Leadership programme, aimed at looking to the social and economic shifts which profoundly affect organizations and leadership, a delegation of Dutch entrepreneurs, senior executives of companies in the public and private sector and researchers interacted with a team from Sankara Nethralaya on January 14, 2010.
Dr. Lingam Gopal, Director, Research and [...]

Eye care is synonymous with Sankara Nethralaya. But had S S Badrinath taken that flight to America in 1972, it would have been a blind alley for thousands.
PUSHPA NARAYAN
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

DR S S BADRINATH | CHENNAI “It’s all team work. This place will continue to grow long after I am gone”
Thank god for the change [...]

As part of the ongoing support provided by Sankara Nethralaya to the Ophthalmology department at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Puttaparthi, Dr. RR Sudhir, senior consultant, Sankara Nethralaya, visited the institute from December 21 to December 26, 2009.
A series of lectures on cornea were held during the period and Dr. Sudhir [...]

Sankara Nethralaya Chairman Emeritus, Dr. SS Badrinath, who recently attended the first-ever Alumni Day held at Indian Institute of Technology Madras on December 26, 2009 shared with the gathering the phenomenal growth Nethralaya has experienced since its inception in 1978.
Dr. Badrinath also spoke on the IT initiatives undertaken by the institute and its impact on [...]

The Seonee hills came alive at the Georgetown Center Auditorium, Austin, Texas, US, as Mowgli and his friends from the animal kingdom recounted one of the most loved tales of the century in a brilliantly-choreographed dance drama by the Natyalaya School of Dance on 20, 2009. 
Children were at their artistic best, as they took the [...]

As part of his visit to the US to understand the current status of research on Optic Nerve Regeneration, Dr. Rashmin Gandhi, consultant, Sankara Nethralaya visited research laboratories in Boston, San Francisco and Madison. 
Dr. Gandhi met Dr. Benowitz and visited his lab in Boston where he observed the Optic nerve crush surgery in a mice [...]

(From left) Dr. T.S. Surendran, Director, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Sankara Nethralaya, Mr. Karthick. M, Business Manager, CIPLA, Mr. Ashok Raj S, Management Trainee, CIPLA, Dr. S. Meenakshi, Director, Academics & Senior consultant, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Sankara Nethralaya and Mr. Niladri Chakrabodhi, Management Trainee, CIPLA.
Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Dora the explorer, Noddy and a host of cuddly [...]

Dr. Lingam Gopal, Director, Vision Research Foundation has been elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. He was presented with a scroll and a citation stating the same in Lucknow during the annual convocation of the National Academy of Medical Sciences on October 31, 2009.

Sankara Nethralaya has been recognized, yet again, as the country’s best ophthalmic hospital according to the recent Week-IMRB survey. The survey also rated Sankara Nethralaya as one of the ten best hospitals in the country. The 14-city survey was conducted among 704 specialists across 10 specializations and 486 general practitioners.

Thirteen patients, who underwent a cataract surgery at the Globe Eye Foundation, Bollineni Eye Hospital & Research Centre, Nellore were referred to Sankara Nethralaya when they failed to respond to treatment following complaints of pain, redness and blurring of vision.
The patients were diagnosed to have post-operative Endophthalmitis (an infection within the eye). They were given [...]