8^th Global Ophthalmology Meeting

Biography

Dr Meenakshi Wadhwani is working as an assistant professor of ophthalmology in Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalya, Geeta Colony, New Delhi since 2018. She completed M.B.B.S. and M.S ophthalmology from the prestigious Lady Hardinge Medical college, New Delhi. She persued her Pool officership (2013) and Ph.D. (2020) from Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi. Her Ph.D. topic was related to causes and prevalence of childhood visual impairment along with development of an age appropriate visual function questionnaire. She has special interest in pediatric ophthalmology. Her researches include pediatric ophthalmology (medical and surgical), pediatric retinal disorders like retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). She has also done research related to medical management of diabetic retinopathy, using various diagnostic techniques and lasers. She has won prestigious pioneer and rising talent award by ANBAI (North) in 2019. Along with that her PhD story was selected amongst the first 50 stories for AWSAR 2021 award from Department of science and technology (DST) India. She has presented many scientific papers at different state, national and international conferences. She has around 50 research publications in various pubmed indexed and around 25 research publications in different peer reviewed journals. She is a member of different ophthalmological societies and review editor to some ophthalmology journals. She was involved as a trainer and resource person in different research projects (ICMR sponsored Multicentric Collaborative Study on the impact of Environmental Changes and Ultra Violet Radiation exposure on ocular health in India, MOHFW sponsored Epidemiological study of Avoidable Blindness and National Trachoma Prevalence Survey) in community ophthalmology in RPC, AIIMS during her tenure of Ph.D. scholarship.

Research Interest

Impact of Environmental Changes and Ultra Violet Radiation exposure on ocular health.