Dr. Saravana Kodandapani

Saravana kodandapani, M.D(AIIMS - New Delhi) Dr Saravana grew up in Bangalore city. He graduated from Bangalore University and received his M.D, from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He was an Internist at Victoria Hospital in Bangalore after which he served as a physician providing care to spastic and disabled children. He then completed a residency in Ophthalmology and then a Fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery under the guidance of Prof H.K. Tewari in Dr R.P.Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.In view of his outstanding academic career, Dr Saravana was selected to serve as Registrar in Vitreoretinal services in the Dept of Ophthalmology in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a position he held till April 2003, when he joined the full time faculty of The Eye Foundation, and later on in December 2003, he became the Head of the Dept of Ophthalmology, Medical Trust Hospital, Cochin where Dr Saravana was involved in training ophthalmologists and post graduate students in Ophthalmology for the National board of Examiners through Accredited Ophthalmology training programs. Dr Saravana has been an invited guest lecturer at various symposia and seminars and is currently involved in a research project "Quality of visual outcome after Multifocal Implants Vs Monofocal Implants" which was accepted for presentation at the American Society for Cataract & Refractive Surgeons Annual conference 2004, San Deigo, CA, USA for a 7minute guest lecture. He is also the first Surgeon in Karnataka, India to implant Carl Zeiss MF4 Multifocal IOL when it was launched in 2006. In Partnership with various Industry leaders like NIDEK, AA, KLB etc, Dr Saravana has been involved in research activities in refining various algorithms for Custom Lasik, PseudoAccomodative Cornea(for correction of Presbyopia), and other state of the art technology transfers in Anterior Segment and Surgical Imaging, Video Overlay,Subretinal Instrumentation etc. Presently, Dr Saravana is a Consultant in Ophthalmology and Vitreoretina at Sri Venkateshwara Nethralaya, Bangalore , an advanced centre for treatment of eye diseases, where he pursues all his clinical, academic, and research activities. His current interests are Refractive Surgery, Lasik, Multifocal and Accomodating IOL Technology, Low Vision Aids, Medical and Surgical Retina. Dr Saravana is also the Founder Member of International Ophthalmologists Academy, a professional group of over 1000 member ophthalmologists dedicated to seek, serve, share and support ophthalmologists worldwide.