Pravin Krishna Vaddavalli
Director, Tej Kohli Cornea Institute, Head, Refrac
immunology
Eye and Lasik Center
India
Biography
Dr Pravin Vaddavalli is an alumnus of Bangalore Medical College, and did his internship at Victoria Hospitals and Bowring & Lady Curzon Hospital, Bangalore. Following his Masters in Ophthalmology from Guntur Medical College in Andhra Pradesh, he completed a fellowship in Cornea and Anterior Segment at LVPEI, Hyderabad and subsequently joined the Institute in 2004. In 2011, Dr. Vaddavalli completed a one-year fellowship in Cornea and Refractive surgery at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, USA, which is rated as the #1 institute for Ophthalmology in the USA.
Research Interest
He was awarded the Young Investigator Award for outstanding research in clinical ophthalmology in 2005 at the SERI – ARVO meet in Singapore; the ‘Best Paper in Cornea’ award at the All India Ophthalmological Society annual meet in 2006; the Shiv Prasad Hardia award for best paper in refractive surgery in 2009; and other international awards, including three consecutive best paper awards at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He serves as a reviewer for numerous international journals and has over 70 peer reviewed publications and over 300 national and international presentations to his credit.
Publications
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His main areas of interest include LASIK and laser surgery, phakic intraocular lenses (ICL), keratoconus, DSEK, DALK, other lamellar corneal surgeries, paediatric cataract, cataract and corneal transplantation.
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His main areas of interest include LASIK and laser surgery, phakic intraocular lenses (ICL), keratoconus, DSEK, DALK, other lamellar corneal surgeries, paediatric cataract, cataract and corneal transplantation.
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His main areas of interest include LASIK and laser surgery, phakic intraocular lenses (ICL), keratoconus, DSEK, DALK, other lamellar corneal surgeries, paediatric cataract, cataract and corneal transplantation.
