PGI Director awarded at conference in USA

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 19

Prof Jagat Ram, Director of the PGIMER, has brought laurels to the country by winning the ‘Best Video Award’ at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Conference held recently at Washington DC, USA.

The conference was held from April 13 to April 17 for the management of cataract in a newborn baby with congenital glaucoma. Congenital glaucoma is one of the leading causes of childhood blindness and the techniques of the management of cataract in these complicated cases are scarcely reported.

It was one of the most challenging and unique cases handled by the team of Advanced Eye Centre where a giant lens was especially designed with the help of BIOTEC Company.

This is the third time that Prof Jagat Ram has won the award at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting in which more than 90 countries participate.

Earlier in 2013, he was awarded the ‘Best of the Best Award’ at the ASCRS Conference in San Francisco, USA, and then again in 2016, he won the ‘Best of the Best Award’ in New Orleans, USA.