Amar Agarwal | |
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| Born | (1960-07-20)20 July 1960 (age 65) |
| Citizenship | India |
| Alma mater | Madras Medical College,Madras University(M.B.B.S.), Ahmedabad Civil Hospital,Gujarat University(M.S.(Ophtha)), Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh(F.R.C.S.), Royal College of Ophthalmologists(F.R.C.Ophth) |
| Known for | Research in Ophthalmology |
| Awards | Best Doctor Award of the State Government (Tamil Nadu) |
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| Fields | Medicine,ophthalmology |
| Institutions | Chairman,Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital |
Dr Amar Agarwal M.S.,FRCS, F.R.C.Ophth is anIndianophthalmologist and chairman and managing director ofDr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital and Eye Research Centre in India, which includes 250+ eye hospitals. He is the recipient of the Best Doctor award of the State government from then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu JJayalalithaa on 15 August 2014.[1][2] He is also the past President of the International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS) and Secretary General of the Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society of India (IIRSI).[3][4][5]
Amar Agarwal was born inChennai on 20 July 1960 toPadma Bhushan Dr.Jaiveer Agarwal and Dr. Tahira Agarwal.He completed M.B.B.S. degree in February 1983 fromMadras Medical College,Madras University. His further qualifications include M.S.(Ophtha) in July 1986 fromAhmedabad Civil Hospital,University of Gujarat,FRCS in October 1986 from theRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh,United Kingdom and F.R.C.Ophth in October 1988 fromRoyal College of Ophthalmologists,London,United Kingdom.
Prof. Amar Agarwal is the pioneer of Phakonit which is Phako with a Needle Incision Technology. This technique became popularized as Bimanual phaco, MicroincisionCataract surgery (MICS) or Microphaco. He is the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7 mm tip with the technique called Microphakonit.[6] He has also discovered No anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT a new technique to remove dropped nuclei.[7] The air pump which was a simple idea of using an aquarium fish pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery. He was also the first to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes and publishing the details in his 4 volume textbook of ophthalmology.[8] He has also discovered a new refractive error called Aberropia.[9][10] He has also been the first to do a combined surgery of microphakonit (700 micron cataract surgery) with a 25 gauge vitrectomy in the same patient thus having the smallest incisions possible forcataract andvitrectomy. He is also the first surgeon to implant a new mirror telescopic IOL (LMI) for patients with age related macular degeneration. He has also been the first in the world to implant aGlued IOL.[11] In this a PC IOL is fixed in an eye without any capsules using fibrin glue. The Malyugin ring for small pupil cataract surgery was also modified by him as the Agarwal modification of the Malyugin ring for miotic pupil cataract surgeries with posterior capsular defects. Dr.Agarwal's eye hospital has also done for the first time an Anterior segment transplantation in a 4 month old child with anterior staphyloma.[12] Prof. Agarwal has also reported and operated the firstPre-Descemet's Endothelial Keratoplasty (PDEK), a new type ofcorneal transplantation that can be used for patients with swelling oredema of thecornea.[13]
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Amar Agarwal is married to DrAthiya Agarwal, an ophthalmologist. They have two sons, named Dr Adil Agarwal and Dr Anosh Agarwal. He has adopted his sister Dr. Sunita Agarwal's sons Dr Ashvin Agarwal and Dr Ashar Agarwal. All 4 of them being ophthalmologists and manageDr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital.
Prof. Agarwal has received many awards for his work done in ophthalmology most significant being the Barraquer Award[14] and the Kelman Award.[15] His videos have won many awards at the film festivals of ASCRS,[16] AAO[17] and ESCRS. He has also written more than 50 books which have been published in various languages- English, Spanish and Polish. He also trains doctors from all over the world in his center on phaco, bimanual phaco, lasik and retina. He heads Dr.Agarwals group of eye hospitals which has 67 eye hospitals. He has also been the Professor of Ophthalmology atSri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute inChennai,India.[18]
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