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manager and managing director, and
Raghavan NS, Essilor’s South Asia country
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manager, provided messages of support to 2 IVI INTERNATIONAL OPTOMETRY
the event. CONFERENCE - WINNERS
The conference included several panel BEST POSTER PRESENTATION:
discussions on topics such as Getting eye Rehana Khan, Research Optometrist,
health into the News; Myopia in India; School Sankara Nethralaya
Children Eye Health Screening – Impact of BEST CASE REPORT:
COVID 19 Pandemic and the Way Forward; Jacinth Priscilla Jacob Jayakumar, Research
NGOs help make a difference; Gender Equity Optometrist, Bausch & Lomb School of
& Inclusive Eye Health; Partnering for Eye Optometry, Brien Holden Institute of Vision
Health and Contact Lens innovations that Sciences, LV Prasad Eye Institute
can help Eye Care Practitioners manage
their patients better. BEST PAPER PRESENTATIONS:
The principal supporters of the event were Systemic and Ocular Disease: Ishwarya
EssilorLuxottica, the Italian-French vertically Suresh, Research Optometrist, Medical
integrated multinational corporation, Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya
renowned as a global leader in the design,
manufacture and distribution of ophthalmic Paediatric Optometry and Binocular Vision:
lenses, frames and sunglasses. Bausch and Jannet Philip, Graduate Research Scholar,
Lomb was the gold sponsor. Titan Eyeplus Elite School of Optometry
supported the conference with gift vouchers Ocular Diagnostics: Mehal Rathore, Student,
for prize-winners in the contests. Elite School of Optometry
Optics: Preetirupa Devi, Student, LV Prasad
Eye Institute
Low Vision and Rehabilitation: Sarika
Gopalakrishnan, Practitioner, Sankara
Nethralaya
Myopia Management: Rohit Dhakal,
Practitioner, LV Prasad Eye Institute
Public Eye Health: Harini Indusekhar, Brien
Holden Eye Research Centre, Hyderabad
Eye Research Foundation, LV Prasad Eye
Institute
Optometry Advancments: Najiya Sundus
Kadavth Meethal, Department of
Neuroscience, Vestibular and Ocular Motor
Research Group, Erasmus, MC, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
Visual Functions: Bhagya Lakshmi Marella,
Student, LV Prasad Eye Institute
Optometry Education: Uma Mageshwari
Batumalai, Educator, SEGI University
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