Surgical Grand Rounds

Tanuj Dada, MD (India)

Dr Tanuj Dada is a Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Glaucoma Services at the RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He serves on the Board of Governors of the World Glaucoma Association and on the Board of Directors of the Asia Pacific Glaucoma Society. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Glaucoma and serves on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Ophthalmology. Dr Dada has innovated several new techniques of glaucoma surgery and pioneered the research on meditation and glaucoma.

Pradeep Ramulu, MD (United States)

Dr Pradeep Ramulu is the Sheila K. West Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, where he directs the Glaucoma division. Using many tools including patient-reported outcomes, observation of task performance, and real-world behavioural monitoring, Dr. Ramulu has helped define when, how, and why visual impairment results in disability. He currently serves as chair of the Glaucoma Research Society Program Committee and heads the World Glaucoma Association Education Committee.

Davinder Grover, MD (United States)

Davinder S. Grover, MD, MPH is an Attending Surgeon and Clinician at Glaucoma Associates of Texas, based in Dallas, Texas. His interests include innovative glaucoma surgeries, complex glaucoma, cataract and anterior segment surgeries as well as clinical research outcomes in medical and surgical glaucoma. He has helped develop several innovative surgical techniques and has designed several novel surgical instruments. Dr. Grover serves on the Board of Directors for the Cure Glaucoma Foundation, a charitable organization with a mission to improve access to quality care, fund transformational research, and disseminate knowledge through global outreach efforts.

Vivek Dave, MD (India)

Dr. Vivek Dave is a clinician scientist currently serving at the Anant Bajaj Retina Institute, L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, where he has been since February 2014. He holds an MD and FRCS and also serves as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology in Rochester, USA. Dr. Dave is a member of the International Society of Ocular Trauma and the Asia Pacific Ophthalmic Trauma Society. His commitment to the field is further exemplified by his role as a mentor faculty at the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology’s Leadership Development Program and his membership on the Congress Standing Committee of the same academy.

With an impressive record of 135 peer-reviewed indexed scientific publications, Dr. Dave boasts an h-index of 19 and an i10 index of 49, underlining his significant contributions to ophthalmic research. Dr. Dave is highly proficient in complex retinal surgeries, endophthalmitis management, and endoscopic vitreoretinal surgeries. His areas of interest include endophthalmitis, endoscopic VR surgeries, ocular trauma, and complex VR surgeries, where he has made substantial advancements and contributions to the field.

Kaweh Mansouri, MD (Switzerland)

Dr Mansouri is the Executive Vice President of the World Glaucoma Association.
He is also the Chief Medical Officer of iStar Medical, Belgium and Implandata GmbH, Germany. Dr Mansouri is the co-founder and President of the Swiss Glaucoma Research Foundation.
Dr Mansouri is a glaucoma specialist and a clinician-scientist. His academic accomplishments include over 180 peer-reviewed journal articles with an h-index of 63 (google scholar).

Since 2020, he has been continually ranked as one of the Top 20 Glaucoma Specialists in the world (Expertscape.com). He is on the editorial boards of the “Journal of Glaucoma” and the “Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia”, is an associate editor of “Acta Ophthalmologica”, and is a contributing editor to the “International Glaucoma Review”. He is co-editor of the textbook “The Science of Glaucoma Management” and co-author of 12 textbook chapters.
In 2012, Dr Mansouri was the first ophthalmologist to give a TEDx talk, with the aim of improving glaucoma awareness.

Kuldev Singh, MD (United States)

Kuldev Singh is Professor of Ophthalmology and Director of the Glaucoma Service at the Stanford University School of Medicine. After receiving an undergraduate degree majoring in Biology and Economics at McGill University, he received his MD and MPH degrees from the Johns Hopkins University and was a Dana Foundation Fellow at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following residency training at the Casey Eye Institute and a Heed Foundation Fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Dr. Singh joined the Stanford faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1992, rising to the rank of Professor in 2003. He has published over 250 original peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 350 invited lectures including over 80 named or keynote lectures and visiting professorships, edited three textbooks and served on the editorial boards of 11 ophthalmic publications.

Jennifer Fan Gaskin, MD (Asutralia)

Dr Jennifer Fan Gaskin (MBChB, MD, FRANZCO) is a Glaucoma Specialist at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, and the Principal Investigator of the Ocular Fibrosis Research Unit at the Centre for Eye Research Australia (an institution ranked fourth globally in ophthalmology research). In 2021 she was named one of Science and Technology Australia’s Superstars of STEM.

Her doctoral thesis “Keratoconus: Novel Investigations of the Diseased Cornea” granted by the University of Auckland was awarded the prestigious Clinical Research Training Fellowship by the Health Research Council of New Zealand. She completed RANZCO Ophthalmology training in New Zealand and underwent two glaucoma fellowships in Auckland and Melbourne, respectively. Her research focuses on novel treatment strategies for fibrotic eye diseases including post-operative fibrosis in glaucoma filtration surgery, proliferative vitreoretinopathy, and macular fibrosis in age-related macular degeneration. Dr Fan Gaskin serves on many executive and scientific boards, including the Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Society, Glaucoma Australia, and Australian Vision Research, for which she is the Secretarial Director.

Winnifred Nolan, MD (United Kingdom)

Winnie Nolan is a Consultant Ophthalmologist in the Glaucoma service at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and Associate Professor at the International Centre for Eye Health, LSHTM, London. Her ophthalmology training was at Moorfields and she worked as a Consultant at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre for 3 years from 2007-2010 before coming back to Moorfields .

Winnie spent 2 years conducting research into the epidemiology of angle closure in Mongolia and 18 months as a clinical and research fellow in Singapore. She is currently working with colleagues at the International Centre for Eye Health and the African Glaucoma Network on a programme of work aimed at prevention of glaucoma blindness in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her clinical interests and case mix include complex primary and secondary glaucomas and primary angle closure glaucoma. She spent 3 years as Clinical Director for Moorfields south 2013-16.