Dr Tanuj Dada completed his
graduation and post graduation from the All India Institute of Medical
Sciences, New Delhi and was awarded the gold medals for the
best undergraduate, best postgraduate in
ophthalmology, the Ophthalmic Research association award for the best
Senior Registrar and the Mohan Lal Wig gold medal for the best
clinical research under the age of 35 years. He has received the World
Glaucoma Congress Film Festival Award 2011 ,American Academy of
Ophthalmology Achievement Award 2009, SAARC achievement award 2008,
the special poster recognition at the World Glaucoma Congress
(Singapore 2007) ,and silver plate by the European Glaucoma Society
meeting (Florence 2004). He has also been awarded the, Krishna Sohan
Singh Trophy for Best Clinical Talk twice (2007,2000) and the AC
Agarwal trophy for the best free paper 3 times by the Delhi
Ophthalmological society. He was the Organizing Chairperson for the
first International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery in India (New Delhi
2010), has developed the ICO glaucoma teaching curriculum for
residents and the FICCI-Govt. of India, Preferred Practice Patterns
for glaucoma therapy in the country.
He has authored 2 textbooks on
Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery, 5 text books on glaucoma ,
compiled the first international video atlas on glaucoma surgery , and
produced the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) educational
DVD on Gonioscopy for post graduate training in the country. He has
written 85 chapters and has over 140 publications in peer reviewed
indexed journals, including the National Guidelines for management of
primary open angle glaucoma under aegis of AIOS. He has innovated
several new techniques of cataract and glaucoma surgery including
modified phaco-in-situ, SLOCT guided bleb needling, bimanual MICS
combined with trabeculectomy and sutureless pars plana vitrectomy in
phacomorphic glaucoma. He serves on the ARVO international committee,
Executive Committee of the International Society Glaucoma Surgery,
Code of Practice committee and Associate advisory board of the World
Glaucoma Association .He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Current Glaucoma Practice , global editor Glaucoma for
World Ophthalmology.
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