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Dr Praveen Vashist- MD (Community Medicine) MSc (Community Eye Health, LSHTM) Additional Professor and Head Community Ophthalmology Department Dr.R.P.Centre, All India institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, India 110029 Contact details: email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telephone number: 9999975072, 011-26593140 As Head of Community Ophthalmology, I have been instrumental in developing community outreach programmes and along with strengthening epidemiological research & training in the field of community eye care. The outreach eye care services includes regular primary eye care clinics through 20 vision centres in urban slums catering to nearly one million population; routine outreach camps for screening cataract and other blinding conditions in rural areas and ensuring free cataract surgeries to poor patients; school based vision screening in schools and dedicated camps for screening of diabetic retinopathy, childhood blindness and glaucoma. The community outreach services through the department have been extended to more than 100,000 people in the year 2013. I have been actively involved in research in community eye care and have nearly 50 publications in international and national journals. I have supervised 15 candidates for research in community eye care involving PhD scholars, WHO Fellow in community ophthalmology and post-graduates in ophthalmology. I have been Principal investigator of 17 research and community eye care projects, most significant of them are Sightsavers Innovation Fund study on developing a low cost model for screening diabetic retinopathy, Vision Delhi Project on primary eye care services in urban slums, LSH&TM study “Epidemiology of Age-related eye disease in India (INDGEN), multi-centric-ICMR study on impact of Global warming and UV radiation on ocular health and development of Operational model for utilizing ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activists) for primary eye care in rural areas. I have been involved in planning, implementation and monitoring in all major NPCB-surveys in last 10 years and coordinated National Surveillance Unit at RP Centre for monitoring post-operative outcomes amongst cataract patients and ocular morbidity from 22 sentinel surveillance units operating all over the country. I have been technical support to Government of India in planning and conduct of major surveys in the country and was involved in NPCB-Trachoma Rapid assessment surveys in 2006-07, Car-Nicobar trachoma survey in 2010 and 2013.Currently I am leading National Trachoma survey for 24 districts in the country. I have also involved in the national blindness survey during 2006-07 undertaken in 16 districts across the country. I have been actively engaged in teaching & training of community ophthalmology and has delivered more than 170 lectures as resource person/faculty in conferences and CME programmes organized by eye care organizations at International and National level. I have trained a large number of programme officers, ophthalmologists, medical officers, ophthalmic assistants and other paramedical staff working in different aspects of community ophthalmology. 1. Principal Investigator/Principal Coordinator in Research & Community Eye Care Projects: -
Awards&honors:-· Awarded for AIIMS Excellence Research Award 2014 (Second Prize, best in clinical research) for my publication on “Rapid Assessment of Trachoma in Car-Nicobar Island” presented in the ceremony of AIIMS Annual Day on 24th September 2014. · “Association of Community Ophthalmologists of India (ACOIN) GOLD MEDAL" for my services in community eye care and trachoma surveys and will be felicitated in the Vth. Annual Conference of ACOIN & International Assembly of Community Ophthalmologists in Kolkata, West Bengal , India on 01st. November, 2014. · Community Ophthalmology Society of India awarded me the “G. Venkataswamy Memorial award” for the year 2014 in appreciation for exemplary individual contribution in the field of “Community Eye Care.” · Awarded Commonwealth scholarship for the MSc Community Eye Health Course at London school of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. For the year 2010-2011 · Best published paper in Indian journal of public health “Work Capacity and Surgical Output for cataract in the National Capital Region of Delhi and Neighboring Districts of North India, IJPH 52(4) Oct-Dec, 2008: 177-184. · Awarded Sightsavers Innovation funds project for the study “Developing a cost-effective model for community-based screening of Diabetic Retinopathy in urban slums of Delhi. “in 2012. · Awarded by Vision2020-Right to Sight in the 8th National Conference of Vision2020 Right to Sight India-2012 for my services as voluntary resource person in Eye care programmes of Vision 2020. · Appointed as Chairperson of Academic and Research Committee for ACOIN (Association of Community Ophthalmologists in India) in 2013 and 2014-16. · Awarded best paper presentation in Asia ARVO 2013, Delhi for the paper entitled “Incidence and progression of myopia among school children in Delhi · E.T. Selvam Award for Best Poster on population prevalence of corneal diseases at AIOS, 2014 · Shri Kalu Ram Award for Best Paper in community based research (Trachoma in Car Nicobar Island)at IAPSM, 2014 · Third Prize for poster on Burden of Blindness and Visual Impairment in Delhi at ASIA ARVO, 2013 Member of National Task force for Retinopathy for Prematurity, Diabetic Retinopathy and Expert Advisory Committee , Trachoma |
Professor (Deptt. of Anesthesia and Intensive Care)
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Name: Dr.Dilip Shende. Designation: Professor Education: M.B.B.S.,MD (PGIMER Chandigarh 1988). Joined A.I.I.M.S. as Assistant Professor in 1991. Areas of Experience : Paediatric, Ophthalmic Anaesthesia, Orthopaedic and Regional anaesthesia, Thoracic anaesthesia, ENT and Major Head & Neck, General Surgery including Renal Transplant/Minimally invasive surgery, Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Intensive Care. Commonwealth Medical Fellowship: One year fellowship in the field of Obstetric Anaesthesia (1996)in United Kingdom. I am having full GMC UK Registration and I am on Specialist Register UK. Worked as Consultant anaesthetist (2011 Jan-2012Dec) with NHS UK. I am interested in clinical research and have around 40 publications in various journals including British Journal of Anaesthesia, Anesthesiology,Anaesthesia ,Paediatric Anaesthesia. Presented research papers in many international conferences and delivered talks/Chaired sessions in many National conferences Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Mobile: 9868397820
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Professor & Head | Dr. Sudarshan Khokhar |
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Faculty membersDr.Rajpal Dr.Pradeep Venkatesh Dr Rohan Chawla |
In Charge | Dr.D.R.Shende - Professor |
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Dr. Renu Sinha - Associate Professor |
This department is keenly involved in the newer techniques of providing safe and complication free anesthesia to children. The faculty has been involved in research activity to decrease the pain intra and post operatively and ease the recovery in all types of surgeries especially in squint surgery. The operation theatre at the R P Centre can run up to 4 tables simultaneously for general anesthesia patients. The department also provides emergency anesthesia facilities for trauma cases after routine OT. Anesthesia facilities are provided once a week in the OPD where minor OPD procedures and pediatric examination can be carried out.
In-charge | Dr.Sanjay Sharma - Additional Professor |
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Dr. R.P.Centre has its own radiology section which is equipped to carry out ocular radiological investigations using X-ray and ophthalmic ultrasound. Procedures performed include macrodacryocystography, orbital phlebography, evaluation of orbital fractures and foreign body localization on X-ray. There are 5 ultrasound machines available at different parts of the hospital including the OPD, casualty, wards and operation theatre and USG facility is available round the clock. For special investigations including CT scan with and without contrast, spiral CT, MRI, MR angiography, Colour Doppler and many other investigations the Department of Radiology, AIIMS provides support. All these investigations are available at a very subsidized rate to the patient and free services can also be provided to the needy.
New Cases | 131286 |
Old Cases | 89766 |
Admissions | 31292 |
Operations | 29711 |
Total No. of Beds | 302 |
Bed Occupancy | 84% |
New and old patients | 221052 |
1. | O.P.D. | 221052 |
2. | Refractions and prescription of glasses | 25265 |
3. | Operations performed | 29711 |
4. | Laboratory investigations | - |
5. | Speciality Clinic cases | 129551 |
6. | National Eye Bank-Donor Eyes received | 677 |
On an average the Centre handles 1257 cases and performs 81 operations per working day.
1. | No. of Junior Residents under training | 80 |
2. | Residents acquired M.D. | 24 |
3. | No. of B.Sc. Hons. (Ophthalmic Technique) | 36 |
Under training | 36 | |
qualified | 12 | |
4. | Post doctoral/short term trainees | 23 |
5. | workshops | 02 |
6. | Undergraduates | 50 |
7. | Training of District Ophthalmic Surgeons in ...IOL surgery | 22 |
8. | Interns | 45 |
9. | WHO Fellows | - |
a) National | - | |
b) International | - | |
10. | Senior Residents | 36 |
11. | Pool Officers | 07 |
12. | PhD Students | 16 |
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
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