Work Experience-

Co-Founder and Consultant Ophthalmologist

Medicare Eye Hospital, Chennai 2010 - 2025

• Co-owned and scaled a super-specialty eye hospital from inception
• Oversaw an OPD of about 30 cases/day and surgical schedules of about 12-15 cases per week
• Started a Contact Lens Clinic including specialty lenses like Kerasoft and Orthokeratology
• Established a Myopia Control Clinic to monitor the progression of myopia and offer a variety of control measures including spectacles, contact lenses and low dose atropine therapy
• Set up the optical store and was involved with planning, inventory management, accounts and training optometrists and sales staff
• Organised public awareness events on World Sight Day annually

Managing Director and Partner

Medicare Eye Hospital 2018 - 2025

• Led the NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals) certification end to end (documentation, audits, compliance)
• Planned the budget, strategies to increase productivity and revenue
• Supervised payroll and vendor payments, trained the hospital staff on soft skills and clinical subjects
• Established SOPs for different departments in the hospital, handled recruitments and HR responsibilities
• Monitored clinical outcomes and reviewed patient satisfaction parameters
• Ensured all the hospital related regulatory licenses and registrations were up to date
• Inputs on social media, awareness talks and interviews, Community outreach – partnered with Round Table and Ladies Circle, India to perform eye camps in the under-served areas around Chennai and conducted free cataract surgeries

Consultant Ophthalmologist

Chennai Meenakshi Multispeciality Hospital, Chennai 2013 to '25

• Delivered comprehensive ophthalmic care across high volume OPD, managing complex medical and surgical cases with cross specialty coordination
• Attended to cross referrals from departments of ENT, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Neurology, General Medicine, Paediatrics, Diabetology, Intensive Care Unit, Trauma care unit, Cardiology and Dermatology

Consultant Ophthalmologist

Apollo Specialty Hospitals, OMR, Chennai 2017 to '20

• Delivered comprehensive ophthalmic care across high volume OPD, managing complex medical and surgical cases with cross specialty coordination

Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology

Chettinad Hospital & Research Institute, Chennai 2009-12

• Managed Outpatient services, delivered Medical and Surgical care to a large volume of patients
• Conducted lectures, clinical case discussions and assessments for 3rd year MBBS students, mentored students interested in clinical research

Surgical Experience-

• ECCE (Extracapsular Cataract extraction), manual small incision cataract surgery, phacoemulsification with foldable IOL implantation, scleral fixation IOL implantation
• Cornea:
  • Therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty, optical penetrating keratoplasty, corneal collagen crosslinking, corneo-scleral tear suturing
• Glaucoma Filtering Surgeries: Combined trabeculectomy with cataract surgery
• Pterygium Excision with/without conjunctival limbal Autograft
• Squint surgeries: Recess resect procedures
• Other procedures: Lid tear repairs, DCT, tarsorrhaphy, chalazion incision and curettage, lid mass excision, punctal plug insertion, NdYAG LASER capsulotomy and NdYAG LASER peripheral iridotomy

Other experience

• Short-term Observership in Pediatric Ophthalmology – H.V. Desai Eye Hospital, Pune 2016
• General Ophthalmology Fellow, Cataract Services – Sankara Eye Hospital, Chennai - 2009