Vikas Mahatme
| Vikas Mahatme | |
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| Residence | Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Sunita Mahatme |
| Website | www.mahatmehospital.org |
Dr. Vikas Mahatme (Born December 11, 1957) Founder Medical Director and the leader of TEAM MAHATME, is an eye surgeon.
Vikas Mahatme has established a Mahatme Eye Bank & Eye Hospital run by SMM Eye welfare Charitable trust & is a Govt. recognized Eye Bank with maximum corneal retrieval & usage in the Nagpur, Maharashtra, region. Eye Bank was started in 1987.
Early and personal life
What began as his one-room, one-man operation in 1986 evolved into one of the most extensive charitable ophthalmic hospitals in the country, the Mahatme Eye Bank and Eye Hospital, in Nagpur. He married to Dr. Sunita Mahatme
Dr. Mahatme received his medical degree in ophthalmology from Nagpur University in 1983. He lectured at the Government Medical College in Nagpur until 1985, then founded the Mahatme Eye Hospital in 1986. He is a member of many ophthalmological societies, including the All India Ophthalmological Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the National Society for Prevention of Blindness. As a faculty surgeon, Dr. Mahatme has conducted innumerable phaco and skill-transfer workshops, and he has performed live surgical demonstrations in India and abroad. He has performed more than 70,000 cataract surgeries and 35,000 phaco cataract surgeries, and he has compiled his techniques into a book, Step by Step Phaco Tips & Tricks, published in 2005. He developed the woodcutter nucleus cracking†phacoemulsification technique, in which a phaco tip is used instead of a chopper to divide the nucleus. The technique works especially well on hard nuclei and is gaining popularity in India and abroad, he said. Other contributions to the field include a filtration-enhancing knot used in trabeculectomy, as well as developing pigment for cosmetic corneal tattooing. Dr. Mahatme also received the Colonel Rangachari Award and Gold Medal for his research on rectal mucous membrane graft for dry eye.
In addition to clinical training courses, Dr. Mahatme runs training courses for ophthalmic technicians, hospital assistants and computer technicians. .
Awards and Recognition
He has been honoured by the President of India, with the “Padma Shri” award for 2010.[1]
Mahatme Eye Bank
When Dr. Mahatme founded the Mahatme Eye Bank in 1987, 1 year after establishing the hospital, there was little progress being made in eye banking. Now the Mahatme Eye Bank is one of the most active eye banks in the region, providing corneas free of charge to eye surgeons nationwide. It is a member of the Eye Bank Association of India, with a close association with Orbis, and has been particularly successful in corneal retrieval and keratoplasty. Dr. Mahatme is an executive committee member representing Maharashtra in the Eye Bank Association of India.
Dr. Mahatme also oversees blindness control programs within the hospital network. A mobile eye care unit, Van for Vision, services the Gondia region, a tribal area earmarked for cataract surgery. Van for Vision is a collaboration with Sightsavers International, Impact India and the Volkart Foundation. This mobile health care clinic is equipped with the latest technology for identifying vision impairment. Several projects have also been done in collaboration with HelpAge India.
Institutes
Institute of Science of Happiness
Revolves around Personality Development & many workshops & courses are conducted for young students, parents as well as doctors.
Pre-primary school for poor children
Mahatme Sanskar Vihar offers education up to Nursery, KG -1 & KG-2
Books Written
Step by Step Phacoemulsification: Tips and Tricks [Paperback] - by Dr. Vikas Mahatme
- ↑ List of Padma Awardees for 2010 - http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=57307
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