Glimpses 2009-2010.pdf - LV Prasad Eye Institute

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Vision To create excellent and equitable eye care systems that reach all those in need. Mission To be a centre of excellence in eye care services, basic and clinical research into eye diseases and vision-threatening conditions, training, product development, and rehabilitation for those with incurable visual disability, with a focus on extending equitable and efficient eye care services to underserved populations in the developing world. LVPEI Network – Management Gullapalli N Rao Chair, LVPEI Network G Chandra Sekhar Director, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad Taraprasad Das Director, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar Merle Fernandes Director, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Visakhapatnam Usha Gopinathan Executive Director D Balasubramanian Director, Research Prashant Garg Director, Education Centre Vijaya K Gothwal & Beula Christy Rehabilitation Rohit Khanna Community Eye Health Usha Gopinathan Ramayamma International Eye Bank Annapurna Devi Chief Technology Officer K V Subba Rao Finance & Accounts K Haragopala Krishna Finance & Accounts V Rajashekar New Projects & Development Sreedevi Penmetcha New Programs & International Liaison M Venkatesh Reddy Trust Affairs & Chairman’s Office Sam Balasundaram Fund Raising & Donor Relations Ghanshyam Singh Opticals & Opticianry M Shoba Audio Visual SBN Chary Photography If you would like to see a more detailed Activity Report, please go to our website: www.lvpei.org/aboutus/portfolio or email us at info.hyd@lvpei.org for a copy. CV.indd 2
Competence and Compassion Matching high-tech with heart The beginning of April, when we begin to compile this Annual Review, is a colourful time in the city of Hyderabad, the epi-centre of the LVPEI Network. The cascading yellow laburnum, known as Amaltas in Hindi, the bright orange flame tree, or the Gulmohar, the delicate pink Mimosa and the flamboyant yellow flame tree better known as the Copperpod, are all in their element. Visitors to the Kallam Anji Reddy Campus are treated not only to good eye care, but to these beauties! Inside the building, our artists in residence ensure an art collection that is literally a sight for sore eyes! Whether it is in the appropriate dimness of the examination rooms, under the microscopes of our research laboratories, the design and delivery of courses, the personal detail of our rehabilitation programs or the careful targeting of our community eye health initiatives, the common threads that run through are our core values: equity, excellence and efficiency. As we continue to reach more people in need and seek ways of making care accessible and affordable even as it keeps up with changing trends in technology and new knowledge in public health, science and management, our aim is to balance the new with the old; in other words, to learn with the head but apply with a good measure of heart. This approach took us to the theme of this year’s annual review: high tech and heart. The high technology is visible in the shine of our diagnostic equipment, the beeps of the black boxes in our molecular biology and stem cell labs and the rigor of our statistically sifted medical evidence, while the heart permeates all our work, from helping a 50-year-old professor cope with sudden vision loss due to glaucoma or giving a 15-year-old back his feet in the form of mobility training and rehabilitation, or even spending time with the parents of a child who has just lost an eye due to advanced eye cancer. Attention is clearly clinical where necessary; when a surgeon decides which microkeratome to use, or the pathologist examines a section of tissue. But always, it is tempered with human understanding, when deciding which scientific question to pursue, or how to educate a family about developmental glaucoma. The LVPEI Network continued to expand through 2009 and the early part of 2010. We ventured farther into the rural hinterland, opening 6 new Vision Centres and continuing to work with several secondary eye centres in capacity building. We performed 665,317 examinations and 69,112 surgeries across our patient care system. Young people continue to come to Hyderabad, and increasingly, to Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam, to learn from us and to help take the LVPEI spirit to other institutions across the country and the globe. The following pages take you through the journeys of the head and heart that we have taken, individually and collectively, in our endeavor to bring eye care to all in need. Inside_Pgs.indd 1 8/30/2010 4:33:34 PM
Page 1: Glimpses, 2009 - 2010 A brief activ
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Page 11 and 12: Honor roll, 2009-10 Mohd Javed Ali,
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Page 17 and 18: REHABILITATION Where hope rests Med
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Page 23 and 24: COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH Reaching out
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Page 29 and 30: EDUCATION Sharpening the edge of ex
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