Perumalsamy Namperumalsamy (died 24 July 2025) was an Indianophthalmologist who specialised indiabetic retinopathy. He was also a retina-vitreous expert. Namperumalsamy was the chairman Emeritus ofAravind Eye Hospital,Madurai.[1] He is known for bringing assembly-line efficiency to eye surgery. In 2010,TIME magazine named Namperumalsamy one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[2]
Under the chairmanship of Namperumalsamy, Aravind Eye Hospital, received the 2010Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, which is awarded annually to an organization that does extraordinary work to alleviate human suffering.[1][3]
Namperumalsamy died on 24 July 2025, at the age of 85.[4]
A postgraduate fellow of theUniversity of Illinois, Chicago, Namperumalsamy started India's first Low-Vision Aid Centre at the Government Rajaji Hospital inMadurai in 1971. He was the chairman ofAravind Eye Hospital.
Namperumalsamy, an elected fellow of theNational Academy of Medical Sciences,[5] was a recipient ofPadma Shri Award from theGovernment of India.[6]He also served as the co-investigator on a research project "Clinical and Laboratory Studies on Eales Disease" in collaboration with theNational Eye Institute, in Washington, D.C., United States, theIndian Council of Medical Research andMadurai Kamaraj University.[7]
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