Dr. Tanuj Dada

Dr Tanuj Dada is currently Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Glaucoma Services at RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS-New Delhi. He is a graduate of AIIMS, New Delhi and was awarded the gold medals for best undergraduate and postgraduate in ophthalmology and best clinical research under the age of 35 years at AIIMS. He has over 300 research publications in peer reviewed indexed journals and has authored 5 textbooks on glaucoma.

He is editor of the All India Ophthalmological Society Guidelines for diagnosis and management of Primary Angle Closure Disease, Primary Open Angle Glaucoma and Glaucoma Surgery.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the Asia Pacific Glaucoma Society, as Secretary of the International Society Glaucoma Surgery and on the education & consensus committees of the World glaucoma Association. He is Chief Editor of the Journal of Current Glaucoma Practice, Associate editor of the journal of glaucoma and on the editorial board of American journal of ophthalmology. 

He has served on the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) committee for formulation of residency and glaucoma fellowship curricula, ICO glaucoma task force which published ICO global guidelines for Glaucoma eye care and as an expert WHO Development Group for the package of glaucoma interventions.

Current leadership positions include appointment as vice chair of the programme planning committee for World Glaucoma Congress (WGC 2023, international co-ordinator for glaucoma scientific programme at Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO 2023) and chairman of scientific committee of Asia Pacific Glaucoma Society Congress (APGC 2022). 

He has innovated several new techniques of Glaucoma surgery and pioneered the research on meditation and glaucoma.