Educational Qualifications

• v Jan 2003 – Jan 2005: MD (Community Medicine), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
• v Jul 1996 – Dec 2001: MBBS, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi (64.9%)

Work Experience

• July 2018-Current: Associate Professor, Community Ophthalmology, Dr RP Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi
• 6 June 2015-June 2018: Assistant Professor, Community Ophthalmology, Dr RP Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi
• 8 Feb – 5 June 2015: Operational Research Fellow, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), South East Asia Office, New Delhi
• 3 August 2012 – 31 Jan 2015: Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health, NIMHANS, Bangalore.
• 15 April 2009 – 31 July 2012: Senior Program Officer, The InCLEN Trust International.
• 1 February 2009 – 12 April 2009: Researcher, HISP-India
• 23 January 2006 – 22 January 2009: Senior Resident, Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi

Contribution To National Programs

• Member of MoH&FW Sub-Committee on legal and policy frameworks for the utilization of artificial intelligence in public health in India
• Member of “Central Task Force at national level for policy planning and strategy Implementation for elimination of Trachoma from the country by the year 2020” set up by MoHFW, GoI
• Member of “Monitoring Committee for monitoring and reporting of Trachoma cases in states for elimination of Trachoma from the country by the year 2020” set up by MoHFW, GoI
• Member of the NPCB&VI “Group to prepare action plan for forming a sound IT platform for transparent monitoring of the field level performance and payments to NGOS through NPCB&VI MIS”.
• Actively collaboration with IIT Delhi for development of AI based algorithms for automated detection of glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy
• Leading the successful developmenet and impllementation of online coding platform for RGI under the MINErVA Platform.
• Led the field survey team conducting the Trachoma Prevalence Survey in Car Nicobar Island.
• Trachoma Elimination in India – Data analysis of National Trachoma Survey and writing up of the report
• Personally visited and supervised the implementation of National Blindness Survey in 22 districts.
• Involved in generating evidence for Diabetic Retinopathy for the NPCB&VI
• Working with IIT-Delhi on use of Vision Computing and Neural Network based Deep Learning technologies for AI based detection of Glaucoma and DR in screening programs.
• Developed an Android Application for collection of glaucoma data by District Ophthalmologists who have been trained in management of glaucoma under the NPCB&VI Glaucoma control initiatives.
• Universal Eye Health - Advocated for the inclusion of Visual impairment component in the name of the National Program for Control of Blindness to NPCB & VI.
• Involved in Development of Disability Certification guidelines under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, GOI.
• Contributed to the National Mental Health Survey, the largest ever survey of Mental Health Disorders in India.
• Improving control and management of Tuberculosis in India.

Dr. Suraj is a Professor working in Community Ophthalmology, at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He has done his post-graduation in Community Medicine from PGIMER, Chandigarh, and completed a master’s degree in Public Health for Eye Care from the London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London. He has extensively worked in assistive technology in collaboration with national and international organizations, including WHO. He is one of the expert members of the technical working of WHO, Geneva for redesigning the Rapid Assistive Technology Assessment (rATA) study tool. He has led the rATA study in India, supported by the WHO. He served as a technical expert and led the national monitoring unit of rATA India under ICMR, New Delhi Ministry of Health. He was also an expert observer in developing the National Assistive Products Priority List of India as well as finalizing the technical draft on India making a Global Hub for Assistive Technology of the Ministry of Health. He is serving as one of the key members of NCAHT (National Centre for Assistive Health Technology), AIIMS New Delhi funded by ICMR, New Delhi. He was also nominated as one of the members by AIIMS to visit Japan under the JICA-AIIMS medical devices program. He is an expert member of site inspection of those START-UP funded by DBT, Govt. of India. He has established the Vision Rehabilitation Training Centre in Dr. R.P.Centre and led a twinning Low Vision Rehabilitation program in Southeast Asia with support from the WHO Southeast Asia Regional Office. He also received the best government assistive initiative in the government sector organized by jointly AssiTech Foundation and IIT Madras. He is one of the key investigators for the National Blindness Survey supported by the Ministry of Health. He has received various awards, including oration at national and international conferences. He has published more than 100 research papers in national and international peer-reviewed indexed journals, 29 chapters, and 20 books, including various vision rehabilitation guides, and is a reviewer of regular of the Lancet Global Health. He served as Guest Academic Editor of Frontier in Public Health and PLoS One. He also chaired many national and international scientific conferences, including the Asia Pacific Academy of OPhthalmolgogy(APAO).

As Officer In-Charge of Community Ophthalmology at the apex ophthalmic institute of the country, I have been instrumental in developing models for community outreach services and strengthening epidemiological research and training in the field of community eye care. I have been Principal Investigator of 42 research and community eye care projects implemented in RP Centre in partnership with international, national organizations including WHO, NPCBVI, ICMR, DST, SightSavers, Operation Eyesight Universal, VisionSpring, ORBIS, LCIF and CBM. I have more than 80 publications in international and national peer-reviewed journals. I have delivered more than 300 lectures as resource person/faculty in conferences and CMEs organized at international and national level. I routinely provide technical assistance to NPCBVI and was appointed as Principal Investigator for the National Blindness Survey 2015-19 and National Trachoma Surveys 2014-17. As an outcome of this National Trachoma Survey, Government of India declared elimination of active trachoma among children in India. I have also been appointed by WHO as member of dossier review committee for elimination of Trachoma in Nepal and Myanmar. I have been involved in blindness control and rehabilitation activities with WHO SEARO and coordinating the activities of WHO-Collaborative Centre for Prevention of Blindness at RP Centre, AIIMS. I am also Vice President and key resource person for Vision 2020-Right to Sight, India.

He has completed graduation in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University with a Distinction in Pharmacology. He pursued his post graduation in Drug Assay in Pharmacology and subsequently pursed PhD from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.  He was awarded PhD in 1999 for his studies on liposome drug delivery to eye and its corneal interactions in which he has done a part of his study from the InstitutfürAnatomie und Zellbiologie - UniversitätWürzburg, Germany. After serving as a Senior Demonstrator and DST Young Scientist Project investigator at AIIMS in the Department of Pharmacology, he has joined as Assistant Professor of Ocular Pharmacology at Dr.RPCentre for Ophthalmic Sciences of AIIMS in 2003 at present he is the Professor and In-Charge of Ocular Pharmacology and Pharmacy Division.

He has been working on ocular pharmacokinetics with the special reference to the contribution of xenobiotic transporters in blood ocular barriers. He has been involved in developing animal models, drugs, their formulations and their delivery systems for ocular angiogenesis, infections, cataract and dry eye. His laboratory is also involved in studying ocular toxicity drugs, tear lipidomics, pharmacogenomics and   ocular QSPR studies using molecular dynamics. His team was involved in addressing several environmental issues contributing towards ocular toxicity of chemical agents.

So far his research has been funded by extramural projects from DST, DBT, ICMR, MHFW, DRDO, AIIMS (intramural), Pharmaceutical companies in India and agencies from abroad. His laboratory has received Level I grant under DST-FIST program for High Precision Bioanalytical Facility (HPBAF) with tandem mass spectroscopy (LC-MS/MS).

He has had the honour of being invited to serve at various places in diverse capacities of speaker, moderator, Session Chairman, Academic Committee member, Technical expert, as well examiner in Biological and Pharmaceutical sciences. He has also been included as advisor and member in various committees of Govt.of India for making decision in drug & research related affairs time to time.   

Awards, Honours & Recognitions

• 2014 – Dr. Vinod Kumar Bhargava Award for Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Discovery by NAMS
• 2014 – Editor (Pharmacology), Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
• 2014 – AIIMS Excellence Research Award – Commendation Certificate
• 2012 – Visiting Professor – MIT-Harvard (Health Sciences and Technology)
• 2011 – Visiting Faculty – BPKIHS, Nepal (Clinical Pharmacology)
• 2010 – Nominated Member of the PG-Curriculum Review Committee of Sikkim University
• CSIR Senior Research Fellowship
• ISER – Pharmacia International Travel Fellowship
• Servior Young Investigators Award

Dr. Neiwete Lomi is currently Associate Professor at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Dr. Lomi has done MBBS from SKMCH, Muzaffarpur, Bihar and completed post-graduation in Ophthalmology from AIIMS, New Delhi. Subsequently, he obtained super specialty training in Cornea, Refractive Surgery and Glaucoma from PGIMER Chandigarh. His current field of interest is in ocular oncology, specially retinoblastoma and uveal melanoma. Besides ocular oncology works, he is also a compassionate and dedicated ophthalmic surgeon working actively in clinical and research activity in the speciality of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery. Dr. Lomi is one of the first ophthalmic surgeon from north India to perform plaque brachytherapy on ocular tumors since 2017 and also initiated Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery for treating large choroidal melanoma in collaboration with Gamma knife unit at AIIMS. Currently he is working in institutional project on melanogenesis in ocular melanoma, Radiomics and Radiogenomics profiling in retinoblastoma and improvised plaque brachytherapy for various ocular tumours.

Prof. Rohit Saxena completed his graduation from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 1996 and joined Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences (AIIMS) as a postgraduate student in 1996. After completing his MD course in Ophthalmology in 1999, he was a Senior Resident at the centre till 2002. He joined the faculty as Assistant Professor at the centre in 2003. He has completed his PhD in Ophthalmology in 2016.

Academic qualifications: MBBS (AIIMS), MD Ophthalmology (AIIMS), PhD (AIIMS):

Dec 2014: Completed course on Good Clinical Practices by NIDA Clinical Trials Network.

Sept 2007: Professional Diploma in Clinical Research (PGDR), Catalyst Clinical Services, New Delhi

July 2006: Post-Graduate Certificate course in Hospital Management, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi.

March 1999: Basic Sciences Assessment in Ophthalmology, International Council of Ophthalmology.

Two weeks Observer ship and Training Programme at the New England Eye Centre, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. from 16th to 30th Nov. 2001.

His main interests are:

• Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology
• Neuro-Ophthalmology
• Phacoemulsification

Membership of societies:

Delhi Ophthalmology Society

All India Ophthalmological Society

Strabismological & Pediatric Ophthalmology Society of India

International Strabismological Association

Dr. M. S. Bajaj, is Professor of Ophthalmology at Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, which is a tertiary care referral and teaching hospital

He is involved in clinical, teaching and research work in Ophthalmology at this apex institute of national importance. He specializes in the fields of Oculoplasty, Orbital Diseases, Lacrimal Disorders and Ocular tumors.

His research work focuses on these superspecialties and includes evolving newer and more innovative surgical techniques. His work has been published in various international journals of repute, in addition to being presented at numerous prestigious superspecialty meetings and conferences.