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Several of LVPEI’s senior faculty have been appointed Visiting Adjunct Professors,Clinical Assistant Professors and Clinical InstructorsUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERROCHESTER, USACASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYCLEVELAND, OHIO, USAAdjunctAdjunct Associate ClinicalClinical AssistantProfessorsProfessorsInstructorsProfessorsTaraprasad DasRohit KhannaAnnie MathaiRaja NarayananPrashant GargAnil K MandalMilind NaikRajeev Reddy PappuruSantosh G Honavar Milind NaikSomasheila Murthy Varsha RathiSubhadra JalaliRaja NarayananRohit KhannaMukesh TanejaAjit Babu MajjiPadmaja K RaniSirisha SenthilAnnie MathaiVirender S SangwanHarsha BL RaoGullapalli N Rao Pravin V KrishnaR MuralidharG Chandra Sekhar• Our collaboration with the University of Nairobibegan with Dr Muchai Gachago and Dr Funjikacoming to LVPEI for their clinical rotation.• For the very first time we webcast the grandrounds of Cole Eye Institute of Cleveland Clinicas part of our advanced tele-education program.November 29, 2010News in Brief• LVPEI had the distinction of conducting the DNBpractical final exams this year – a recognition fromthe National Board of Examinations.• The annual meeting of the University of Rochesterwas telecast for the first time from March 18-19,2011, with renowned speakers from across the globedelivering talks on various topics in ophthalmology.Relearning the Basics!Derek Tole, FRCOphth came for a 2-month stint atLVPEI. An accomplished surgeon at Bristol Eye Hospital,UK, he came for a short-term training program tohone his skills in manual small incision cataract surgery(MSICS) as, he points out, many ophthalmologists todayare "machine dependent", with phacoemulsification beingthe preferred procedure. "It was a steep learning curve,"he smiles!Derek will be part of a hospital team headed to Mbararain Uganda to train doctors in MSICS. Phacoemulsification,being an expensive procedure, calls for a large investmentcoupled with a high cost of disposables and is not suited tothe country at this stage of their economic development.The training is part of an exchange program between theUniversity Hospital Bristol and other UK hospitals on theone hand and units in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania on theother, under the aegis of the International Centre for EyeHealth, UK and VISION 2020: The Right to Sight."What strikes you here is the high number of infections,penetrating injuries, chemical injuries, trauma…theetiology of the infections is completely different fromthat in the UK." Often delays on the part of agriculturallabourers in seeking treatment for trauma and injuries,compounded by dependence on alternate remedies, leadsto a higher number of fungal infections, thus pushing upthe number of corneal transplants required. He admittedruefully that the six-and-a-half-day work week "was a bitof a shock to the system! At home our day starts at 8,not 7!"Dr Derek Tole examines a patient at LVPEI, Hyderabad campus71Derek is Medical Director of Bristol Eye Bank and spenthis second month in the stem cell and microbiologylaboratories at LVPEI and the Eye Bank. "I'm impressed,"he said, "this is probably the biggest eye bank in theworld, processing over 1500 corneas annually, with over1200 transplants being carried out at LVPEI – the largestby a single organisation."For LVPEI too Derek's training has been very satisfying –the skill transfer will help extend much needed eye careto African nations, such as Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.Activity Report 2010–2011