By Tricity News
Chandigarh
19th April:- Prof.
Jagat Ram once again made PGIMER, Chandigarh and India proud by winning the
prestigious “Best Video” Award at the American Society of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery Conference held at Washington D.C, USA from April, 13th -17th 2018 for the
management of Cataract in a new born baby with Congenital Glaucoma also known
as “Kala Motia”. Congenital Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of childhood
blindness and the techniques of management of cataract in these complicated
cases are very scarcely reported. It was one of the
most challenging and unique cases performed by the team of Advanced Eye Centre
where a giant lens was especially designed and customized with the help of
BIOTEC Company according to the size of the eye.
This is the third time when Prof. Jagat Ram won
the award at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting
which gets representation from over 90 countries and the film festival is like
the Oscar’s of Eye surgery. Earlier in 2013, he was awarded the Best of the
Best award and for the management of Double crystalline lens at the ASCRS
Conference at San Francisco, USA and then again in 2016 he won the Best of the
Best Award in New Orleans, USA for a new surgical technique for Persistent
hyperplastic primary vitreous.
Prof. Jagat Ram has
attended the 3rd meeting and
made the hattrick by winning this prestigious award at the ASCRS, 2018. This
surgical technique documented for the first time in the world by Prof Jagat Ram
will help millions of small children in near future who are in danger of losing
their sight due to congenital glaucoma and related diseases.
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