Speakers

Chairman and Managing Director-Dr.Agarwal’s group of eye hospitals and Eye Research Centre, 222, TTK Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600018, Tamilnadu, India Past President- International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS) Secretary General- Indian Intraocular implant and Refractive Society (IIRSI) Amar Agarwal is the pioneer of  Phakonit, which is Phako with a Needle Incision Technology. This technique became popularized as Bimanual phaco, Microincision cataract surgery (MICS) or Microphaco. He was the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7 mm tip with the technique called Microphakonit. He has also discovered No anaesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT, a new technique to remove dropped nuclei. The air pump, which was a simple idea of using an aquarium fish pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery.  He has also discovered a new refractive error called Aberropia. He has also been the first to do a combined surgery of microphakonit (700 micron cataract surgery) with a 25 gauge vitrectomy in the same patient thus having the smallest incisions possible for cataract and vitrectomy. He is also the first surgeon to implant a new mirror telescopic IOL (LMI) for patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration. He has also been the first in the world to implant a Glued IOL. He also has brought out the technique of IOL Scaffold in which a three-piece IOL is injected into an eye between the iris and the nucleus to prevent the nucleus from falling down in posterior capsular ruptures. Hypersonic vitrectomy for cases of PC rupture was first done by him and he was the principal investigator for the first hypersonic vitrectomy cases done in the world.   Pre Descemet’s Endothelial Keratoplasty or PDEK was started by Prof Agarwal.   Dr Agarwal has designed a new instrument called the Trocar anterior chamber maintainer in complicated cases, which helps give infusion through the anterior chamber and works like a trocar cannula. He has also started a new technique of iris suturing called Single pass Four Throw (SFT) pupilloplasty. Subsequenly he started Pinhole pupilloplasty to treat patients with high astigmatism and higher order aberrations.   Dr. Agarwal has performed more than 200 live surgeries at various conferences. His videos have won many awards at the film festivals of ASCRS, AAO and ESCRS. He has more than 250 peer review articles in top journals and has also written more than 80 books in Ophthalmology which have been published in English, Spanish, portugese and chinese. He is the Chairman and managing director of Dr.Agarwals group of eye hospitals with 221 eye hospitals in 11 countries.

Training and Experience:

• Anterior and posterior Segment Surgeon, Südblick (May 2019 – Present)

• Ophthalmology Acting Consultant, Munich University Hospital (March 2017 – March 2019)

• Ophthalmology specialist, Munich University Hospital (June 2016 – Februar 2017))

• Ophthalmology resident, Munich University Hospital (September 2011- May 2016)

• Ophthalmology resident, Jeddah Eye Hospital (March 2008 - April 2010)

Education:

• Cornea and External Diseases Fellowship, University of Munich (October 2017- March 2019)

• Cataract and Refractive Surgery Fellowship, University of Munich (October 2016 - September 2017)

• German Board of Ophthalmology, June 2016

• European Board of Ophthalmology Diploma, May 2015

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, 2007 King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi-Arabia

Surgical Spectrum:

• Keratoplasty: penetrated Keratoplasty, lamellar Keratoplasty (SALK, DALK, DSEK, DMEK), Bowman Layer Transplantation, Femtosecond laser assisted Keratoplasties.

• Lens Surgeries: innovative Intraocular lenses: toric IOL, multifocal IOL, phakic IOL, Add On IOL, Sclera/Iris fixated IOL, Femtosecond laser assisted Cataract Surgery (FLACS)

• Complex anterior chamber surgeries: Triple OP (combined Cornea and Cataract surgery)

• Vitreoretinal surgery (Pars Plana Vitrectomy)

• Intravitreal Therapy

• Laser Vision Correction (LASEK/ PRK/ Trans-PRK, LASIK, ReLEx SMILE)

• Trauma Surgery

• Pterygium excision with conjunctival autograft

• Amnion membrane transplantation

• Limbal stem cell transplantation (SLET/ KLAL)

• Corneal Crosslinking (also combined with topo guided excimer laser Transepithelial- PRK /Transepithelial-PTK)

• Intrastromal corneal Ring Segments: Keraring/ Myoring/ Corneal allogenic intrastromal ring segment (CAIRS)/ Continuous corneal allogenic intrastromal ring (CCAIR)

• Excimer laser Phototherapeutic Keratectomy

• Micro-invasive Glaucoma Surgery (I-Stent, XEN Gel Stent, Preserflo)

Luís Abegão Pinto is the Head of the Glaucoma Clinic of the Department of Ophthalmology of Portugal's largest Hospital (Hospital Santa Maria). He serves as Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon University, Portugal. His main areas of interest are Glaucoma Surgery, Artificial Intelligence and Screening.

He serves in the Executive Board of the European Glaucoma Society (EGS) since 2018 and he is currently the EGS Vice President. Moreover, he is co-chair of the EGS TaskForce on Glaucoma Surgery, co-editing the new "Guides on Innovations in Glaucoma Surgery" He has authored or co-authored 105 indexed, peer-reviewed papers in Glaucoma. He is actively engaged in several scientific ophthalmological societies, including the EGS and EVER, having chaired or co-chaired a number of courses in international Ophthalmology societies' meetings.

Consultant Cornea and Refractive surgery Clinical and translational Scientist, Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, INDIA GROW laboratories Faculty, Dept. of Ophthalmology, Univ. Maastricht.

Prof. Dr. Rohit Shetty is the Vice Chairman of Narayana Nethralaya Eye Institute. He is a Professor at Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, India and an Adjunct Associate Professor at MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore and is an Affiliate Associate Professor and PhD guide at the Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Prof. Dr. Rohit Shetty has over 200 Publication in peer reviewed indexed Journals. He is a Corneal Refractive Surgeon at Narayana Nethralaya Eye Institute, Bangalore, India. His other areas of work include Neuro-ophthalmology electrophysiology.

Prof. Dr. Rohit Shetty defended his PhD from Maastricht University, Netherlandson Understanding the Clinical, Immunological and Genetic Molecular Mechanism of Keratoconus. He has a special interest in the management of Keratoconus, tear film abnormalities and biomarkers. He has introduced cutting edge technology at Narayana Nethralaya and spearheads treatment for challenging eye disorders.

In the 2015 annual conference of the All India Ophthalmological Society, Dr. Rohit Shetty won the prestigious Col. Rangachari award for the overall best paper of the conference for his work on “Is Inflammation Driving Keratoconus? – A Holistic Study Of Molecular Pathways”.

The American Academy of Ophthalmology recently conferred an achievement award to Dr. Rohit Shetty for the distinguished services he has rendered over the years to the programs of the society.

• Chairman Managing Director, Nethradhama Super Speciality Eye Hospital - The first  Eye hospital in India to get the NABH quality accreditation.
• He is currently the Secretary of the International Intraocular Club(IIIC) and Treasurer of the APACRS
• His main interests are Cataract (Phacoemulsification) and Refractive surgery. He has been in the forefront of newer technologies for Phacoemulsification and Refractive Surgeries.
• He has overn 100 publications in International peer reviewed journals on Refractive Surgery & has performed over 200 live surgical demonstrations in various conferences and has presented  many papers  in national and international conferences.

1. Dr Sri Ganesh has been honored as a Board Certified and awarded the designation of Fellow in the WCRS of the World college of Refractive Surguery & Visual Sciences in regcognition for knowledge achievement, expertise and commitment to the advancements of the speciality of Refractive Surgery on 24th of January 2023.
2. Awarded Honorary FRCS(Glasg) by the Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow on November 23, 2018.
3. Honorary Doctorate ‘Doctor of Science’ has been conferred on Dr. Sri Ganesh by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences for his contribution to society in the field of Ophthalmology on 26th March 2014 during the 16th Annual Convocation of RGUHS at the NIMHANS Convention Centre.

• Col . RANGACHARI AWARD for Overall Best Free Paper in AIOC 2016, Kolkata”.  Title: [FP694] – Combined Femtosecond Intras- tromal Lenticule Implantation (FILI) +KXL- A New Modality for Keratoconus.
• Dr. Sri Ganesh honored with AUSCRS GOLD MEDAL ORATION AWARD from Dr. Graham Barrett at AUSCRS 2017, Hamilton Island, Australia held on 2nd August - 5th August 2017.
• Dr. Sri Ganesh conferred the prestigious Micheal Kritzinger award by the international society for Refractive Surgery at the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago 2022 for my contributions to the field of refractive surgery.