Dr TS.Surendran, Head Pediatric Ophthlmology and his team released “Preferred Practices in Pediatric Ophthalmology” a well researched and exhaustive work on this niche area of ophthalmology.

The Dr S Ramakrishnan & Smt. Bhagavathy Endowement Award was awarded to Ms. A. Rashima, Lecturer, ESO for her research paper “Impact of Occupational Optometry Services on the productivity and vision of Small Scale and Cottage Industry workers”.

The Dr S. Narasimhan Memorial Award for the Best Research in Optometry for year 2015 – 2016 was awarded to  Ms N Anuradha, Lecturer, Elite School of Optometry for her work on “Compliance to Referral among Children in School Eye Screening- A Qualitative study from Southern India”.  Ms. Anuradha also won the Dr (Maj) S. Srinivasan Memorial Prize for Best Senior Faculty.

Dr. (Maj) S. Srinivasan Memorial Prize  for Best Junior Faculty Award for year 2015-16 was awarded to  Ms. A. Vijayalakshmi, Manager – Optometry Department, Sankara Nethralaya and visiting Lecturer at ESO.