Hyderabad, Sept.21 (NSS): Dr Santosh G. Honavar, Honorary Secretary of the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS), Director of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery and Ocular Oncology at the Centre for Sight Eye Hospital, Hyderabad, former Associate Director of LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, and the past Editor of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, yet again claimed the top spot among researchers in Ophthalmology in India for the fourth consecutive year. The rankings for 2024 were announced by a panel of experts from Stanford University and Elsevier, featuring the top 2% of researchers globally, based on the impact of their work in 2023.
Heading the list of researchers in ophthalmology in India for career-long impact is Dr Gullapalli N. Rao, Founder-Chairman of LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. Dr Rao, a highly esteemed ophthalmologist in India, has been honoured with the Padma Shri for his outstanding achievements. Additionally, he has served as the former Secretary-General and Chair of the Board of the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness, playing a pivotal role in the global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness. Dr Rao has also been inducted into the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.
Dr Samar Basak, President of AIOS, extended his congratulations to the Indian researchers featured in the Stanford list.
The top 10 Indian researchers in ophthalmology included in the 2024 Stanford list are: Santosh G. Honavar, Mohammad Javed Ali, GVS Murthy, Muthiah K. Srinivasan, Swathi Kaliki, Namrata Sharma, Virender S. Sangwan, Savitri Sharma, Philip Aloysius Thomas and Vinod Kumar.
