LVPEI Uveitis Series 2.0
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Price :
Online version : INR 10,000 (USD 200)
Hybrid version : INR 20,000 (USD 400) - Language : English
- Type : Course
- Live On : 6th January, 2023
- Commitment : 9 weeks, 2 hour / week
About This Course
The LVPEI Uveitis series 2.0 will act as a bridge between your knowledge of uveitis and the patient in the clinic. It will help you identify different patterns of uveitis through clinical observation and judiciously use laboratory investigations and various treatment options.About the Hybrid version
Learners will have the option of a one-month short term observership at any one of the LVPEI campuses, for first hand experience of patient evaluation in uveitis.Meet the Instructor
Dr. Soumyava Basu
Network Head, Uveitis Services, Consultant OphthalmologistDr. Soumyava Basu is a Uveitis and Retina consultant at L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India, and heads the Uveitis services of the LVPEI network. He has also completed 3 research sabbaticals – with Prof. Narsing Rao at Doheny Eye Institute (2010), Prof. Jay Ambati at University of Kentucky (2013-14), and Prof. Lalita Ramakrishnan at the University of Cambridge, UK (2016).
Dr. Basu’s research interests lie in understanding the interactions between infection and autoimmunity in the immune-pathogenesis of ocular tuberculosis. He has received multiple competitive research grants, most recently the DBT Welcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship in Clinical and Public Health Research (2019-24). He has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals and has been a reviewer for nearly all major ophthalmology journals. Dr. Basu has been actively involved in framing the Indian Extra-pulmonary TB (INDEX-TB) guidelines. He has also been the principal investigator for several multi-centric clinical trials.
Dr. Anup Kelgaonkar
Consultant OphthalmologistDr. Anup completed MS Ophthalmology from GMC, Nagpur followed by one and a half year stint as a senior registrar in BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai. He later pursued a 2-year fellowship from Vitreo Retina and Uveitis in L V Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneshwar. Dr Kelgaonkar's core areas of interest are Uveitis and Advanced Vitreoretinal surgeries and he is actively involved in clinical research of Uveitis. He is co-investigator in several multicentric randomized clinical trials.
Dr. Avinash Pathengay
Network Director, Education Consultant OphthalmologistDr. Avinash Pathengay is the Network Director of Education and heads the Standard Chartered - LVPEI Academy for Eye Care Education. The LVPEI ‘Just A Minute (JAM) clinical pearls’ (emailer - digital learning) in Ophthalmology and Optometry that have received a phenomenal response globally from the eye care fraternity are his brainchild. He has conceptualized many other innovative learning tools, and the LVPEI education training programs and collaborations have been further strengthened with a strong digital component under his leadership. Associated with LVPEI since 2001, he has played an integral role in establishing the retina services at the institute’s GMR Varalakshmi Campus in Visakhapatnam.
After graduating from the Stanley Medical College, Dr. Pathengay did his ophthalmology residency at Madras Medical College. Following this he did a fellowship at Sankara Nethralaya in vitreoretinal surgery. Later, he also pursued a one-year fellowship with Dr. Harry Flynn at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, Florida.
Dr. Pathengay is a co-founder of RETNETINDIA, a group with over 950 retinal surgeons in India. He has to his credit more than 100 presentations in both international and national conferences and 147 peer-reviewed publications and has authored 9 chapters in various textbooks. He was honoured as the Outstanding International Scholar by the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, USA, and was recently ranked as an expert (second position) in endophthalmitis by the Expertscape Daily Experts. He has also received several awards for his presentations at forums such as the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Asia Pacific Ophthalmological Society and World Ophthalmology Congress.
A doctor with a keen interest in botany, you can have an engaging conversation with him on plants and gardening. The impressive Sensory and Mobility Park at LVPEI’s tertiary campus at Vijayawada and the beautiful award-winning gardens at the tertiary campus at Visakhapatnam are also his notable contribution to the Institute.
Dr. Mudit Tyagi
Head, Smt Kanuri Santhamma Centre for Vitreo-Retinal DiseasesDr. Mudit Tyagi’s main areas of interest are complex retinal detachments, macular holes and uveitis. Dr. Tyagi developed a surgical technique of retinal detachment and macular hole surgery which is recognized by the Vitreo-Retinal Society of India which is beneficial to elderly patients and spinal and other orthopedic ailments. He has also received the honor and achievement award from the prestigious American Society and has over 80 scientific publications in internationally peer reviewed journals and other awards and recognitions throughout his career.
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