Sundaram Natarajan

Sundaram Natarajan

Natarajan was awarded the Padma Shri by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee
Born (1957-09-04)4 September 1957
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Citizenship Indian
Fields Ophthalmology
Institutions Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Known for
Notable awards

Professor Dr. Sundaram Natarajan is the CMD of Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital which is one of Mumbai's leading eye hospitals. Natarajan was conferred with the Padma Shri for his achievements in the field of Medicine.[1] He hails from a long line of ophthalmologists. His father Dr. N. S. Sundaram and grandfather, Dr. Nataraja Pillai, were ophthalmologists of high standing in Chennai, India. He completed his post graduation in ophthalmology from Chennai. From 1984 to 1988, he worked as a vitreo retinal surgeon, under Dr. S. S. Badrinath, at the Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. In 1988, he joined the Taparia Institute of Ophthalmology, Bombay Hospital and continued his work there till 1990. In 1990 he laid the foundation stone of Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital Pvt. Ltd. and has been serving as the CMD.[2]

Achievements

Positions held

He holds a wide variety of posts in various organisations, both within India and internationally:

Dr. Nataraja Pillai Oration Awards

Natarajan has constituted this award to honor ophthalmologists from around the world.[15] Dr. Subramaniyan Nataraja Pillai was born in March 1, 1900 and studied at St. John's College, Palayamkottai, Thirunelvelly District. He was trained by Col. Wright (authority on Tropical Ophthalmology and who started Museum in Ophthalmology). He was blessed with two sons, two daughters and 14 grand children. He represented College Hockey Team, did L. M. p. Course at Tanjore Medical School, joined Medical Service as Sub assistant Surgeon in Thirunelvelly in the earlier period. As per British rule, one has to serve 3 years (1.5 years jail duty and 1.5 years Agency duty) and he will be posted at his native place during the last five years of service. He therefore served all the three years of service as agency duty at Boipariguda in Koraput, Garjam. Dt. (Orissa), which was in Madras Presidency. He had great interest in hunting. After the Agency duty, he was posted as Sub-assistant Surgeon at GOH in 1938 as a Pathologist. He studied and got L. O. in 1939 and continued to serve in all the departments of GOH till 1943. He worked in Govt. Erskine Hospital, Madurai from 1948 to 1951 and then continued private practices till his demise at Madurai. He was one of the pioneers to do eye camps at Virudhu Nagar and Dindugal with the help of TVS family. He was a member of Lion's Club and worked as a Hon. Magistrate for two terms.

Social work

Natarajan has been conducting numerous eye camps and eye donation camps through Twinkling Little Eye Foundation.[16] Dignitaries supporting these camps include Former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Governor of Maharashtra and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and spreading eye care awareness via national and regional TV (E.g. Jaya TV interviews)

'Eye for Eyes mission' (Eye Stem Storage and Transportation feat)

Eye for Eyes mission by NCRM, Natarajan et al.

Natarajan et al. with Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM), an Indo-Japan academic institute based in Chennai, developed a method[17] of transportation of corneal endothelial tissue without any refrigeration. The time from harvesting the corneal endothelial tissue (from cadaver donor-eye) till reaching a central stem cell lab was up to 72 hours, and yet due to the unique nanopolymer cocktail used for the transportation, the cells survived.[18] The harvesting of endothelium cells of the cornea led to using a single eye to restore sight to more than one person's eye, leading to the process being called 'Eye for Eyes mission'.[19]

Effect of Eye for Eyes:

Medical Awards

American Academy of Ophthalmology special recognition awarded to Natarajan on 17th Nov 2013

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International Membership

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References

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