City's Top Ophthalmologist's Distinction

Hyderabad: Dr Santosh G Honavar, city's internationally renowned ophthalmologist tops the Stanford List of Researchers in Ophthalmology in India for the fourth consecutive year. The rankings for the year 2024 were announced by a panel of experts from Stanford University and Elsevier, featuring the top 2 per cent of researchers globally, based on the impact of their work in 2023.

Dr Santosh G Honavar is the Honorary Secretary of the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS), Director of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery and Ocular Oncology at the Centre for Sight Eye Hospital, Hyderabad, former Associate Director of LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, and the past Editor of the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology. He is the sole ophthalmologist from the Indian subcontinent to receive the Honorary Fellowship, the highest honour bestowed by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in the UK.

Dr Samar Basak, President of AIOS (All India Ophthalmological Society), extended his congratulations to the Indian researchers featured in the Stanford list. All India Ophthalmological Society is the world's second-largest professional organisation of Ophthalmologists, with over 26000 members. Fifty-five Indian ophthalmologists are on the list of top 2 per cent of world researchers, considering the impact of their work in 2023. There are 27 Indian Ophthalmologists who are part of the list of the top 2 per cent of researchers in the world in terms of career-long impact.

The top 10 Indian researchers in ophthalmology included in the 2024 Stanford list are: Santosh G Honavar, Mohammad Javed Ali, GVS Murthy, Muthiah K. Srinivasan, Swathi Kaliki, Namrata Sharma, Virender S Sangwan, Savitri Sharma, Philip Aloysius Thomas and Vinod Kumar.