Dr. Vanita Pathak Ray

Dr. Vanita Pathak Ray
17+ Years of Experience

  • Hyderabad, Telangana

Specialties of Dr. Vanita Pathak Ray

    Cataract Eye Surgery
    Glaucoma Surgery

Qualification of Dr. Vanita Pathak Ray

  • FRCOphth, Royal College of Ophthalmology, London (UK) – 2006
  • Glaucoma Fellowship at the University of Toronto, ON, Canada – 2004
  • FRCS (Ophthalmology) Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh – 1997
  • MBBS, University of Calcutta, India – 1992

Experience of Dr. Vanita Pathak Ray

  • Over 17 years of postgraduate ophthalmic surgical experience spread across North America, Europe, and India
  • Consultant Ophthalmologist / Glaucoma Specialist for over 14 years, initially at Cardiff UK followed by L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India
  • Currently, Director Glaucoma and Senior Glaucoma and Cataract specialist at Centre for Sight, Hyderabad, India since Jan 2017 and at Neuro Retina Eye Care Institute, Hyderabad, since Jan 2018

Research and Designation of Dr. Vanita Pathak Ray

Awards and Recognition of Dr. Vanita Pathak Ray

  • First Indian Glaucoma specialist to perform minimally invasive glaucoma surgery in angle closure disease (phaco-endocycloplasty).
  • First Indian Glaucoma specialist to use Kahook Dual Blade to perform trabeculotomy in adults.
  • First to perform Aurolab Aqueous Drainage Implant (AADI) while at LVPEI – one of a handful of Glaucoma specialists in the country performing this surgery.
  • Successfully conducted CME in Glaucoma on World Glaucoma Day 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and webinars in 2021.
  • Pathak-Ray V ‘3-D glaucoma surgery video show – Trabeculectomy, Bleb needling, AADI and AGV’ – CME Centre for Sight, Hyderabad India, March 2018 and 2019 and at the GSI annual Conference Sept 2019. First of its kind in India.
  • Felicitated as ‘International Hero’, three times in a row 2017, 2018 and 2019 by All India Ophthalmic Society.
  • Prize winning presentations ‘AADI-Low in cost but is it high in performance’ video and ‘Encountering shallow non-forming AC in phaco-trab – sweat not!’ JAM, HOA-Vista, Hyderabad, India November 2018.
  • Prize winning presentation ‘Sentries do not let your guard down!’ Glaucoma Society of India annual meeting ‘GlauKovalam’. Thiruvananthapuram, India, September 2018
  • Prize winning presentation ‘IZHV-Decoded’ International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery, Montreal, Canada, September 2018.
  • Prize winning presentation ‘Minimally invasive trabeculotomy in adults’ Telangana State Ophthalmic Conference, Hyderabad, India July 2018.
  • Prize winning presentation ‘Intra-operative ASOCT in Phaco-endocycloplasty in Plateau Iris Syndrome.’ World Glaucoma Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 2017.
  • Prize winning presentation ‘AADI-phaco: results of consecutive cases’ AIOC, Jaipur, India, 2017.
  • ‘CS Reshmi’ Top 5 video ‘Endoscope: One probe, many scope’ Jaipur, India, 2017
  • Prize winning presentation ‘Ostial Irido-Zonulo-Hyaloido-Vitrectomy: Anterior segment solution for posterior segment complication – Preventing Aqueous Misdirection in high-risk patients’ at the International Congress of Glaucoma Surgery, Muscat, Oman 2016.
  • Prize winning presentation ‘Phaco-endocyclophotocoagulation – relevance in angle closure disease’ at the Silver Jubilee Glaucoma Society of India annual conference, Mumbai, India, 2015.
  • Prize winning presentation ‘Being blind in 2002- social deprivation and unmet needs’ at the South West Ophthalmological Society, Taunton, UK 2004.
  • Awarded Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training, UK 2006.
  • Currently completed two in-house prospective studies.
  • Invited faculty to several National and International Conferences and Webinars
  • Reviewer for several prestigious National and International Journals.
  • Over 50 Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals.

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