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

- 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 Neoretina Eyecare Institute, Hyderabad, since Jan 2018

- 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