Teaching Commitments 2011

  • Training and supervision of Retinal Fellow (2001-2010), Ophthalmology Specialist Registrars and Senior House Officers attached to my firm.
  • Lectures for F2 trainee doctors Wirral Hospitals, 2006 onwards.
  • Organization and delivery of Ophthalmology component of MRCP PACES course, Wirral Hospital, 2004 onwards.
  • Senior instructor Going, Going, Gone the management of the dropping and the dropped nucleus. ASCRS 2011, San Diego. (S Prasad, B Little, K Tjia)
  • Senior Instructor - Techniques and Devices for Surgical Reconstruction of Traumatic and Developmental Iris Defects, instruction course held at the Annual Congress of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago 2010 (S Prasad, S Srinivasan, H-R Koch, M E Snyder) and Orlando 2011.
  • Senior Instructor - Drop & Stop: The Practical Management of Fallen Fragments, instruction course held at the Annual Congress of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago 2010 (S Prasad, B C Little, M Nagpal) and Orlando 2011 (S Prasad, K Tjia, M Nagpal).
  • Senior Instructor - Secure Posterior Chamber IOL Placement Without Adequate Capsular or Zonular Support, instruction course held at the Annual Congress of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago 2010 (S Prasad, A Agarwal, K J Rosenthal, M E Snyder) and Orlando 2011.
  • Instructor Managing posterior capsule rupture and descending nuclei advanced techniques. Course at APAO (Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology) Beijing 2010 (D Chang, S Chang, R Steinert, S Prasad)
  • Instructor Intraocular mirror telescope implantation for AMD patients instruction course at ESCRS[1] 2010 Paris (I Lipshitz, M J Tassignon, A Agarwal, S Prasad) and the Annual Congress of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (I Lipshitz, A Agarwal, S Prasad).
  • Instructor Advanced biaxial microphaco and coaxial phaco / microphaco techniques in challenging (White and Suprahard) cataracts: A video course. WOC[2] June 2010 Berlin  (A Chakrabarti, A Agarwal, J L Alio, S Ganesh, B Malyugin, S Prasad)
  • Chief instructor Management of severe trauma for the Anterior Segment Surgeon ASCRS 2010 Boston (S Prasad, R Scott, A Mearza)
  • Faculty on Surgical skills training course (wetlab): Basic Suturing Techniques, ESCRS Berlin 2008 (S Prasad, S Bhattacharjee, K Miykek), Barcelona 2009 (L Benjamin, S Prasad, S Bhattacharjee), Paris 2010 (L Benjamin & S Prasad) and Vienna 2011 (S Prasad and J Butcher).
  • Instructor Comprehensive strategy for the management of Posterior capsular Rent (With or without vitreous loss) by the anterior segment surgeon. AAO annual Congress 2009 San Francisco (S Basak, A Chakrabarti, S Prasad, K Tija, B Little, K Miller), and Chicago 2010 (A Chakrabarti, K M Miller, S Basak, K F Tjia, B  C Little, S Prasad)
  • Instructor Phaco Techniques and Complications  instruction course conducted ESCRS 2008 Berlin (B Little, M Packer, R Packard, S Prasad), 2009 Barcelona (L Benjamin,   B Little,   M Packer,   J Haysenyager-Smith,   S Prasad) and 2010 Paris (B Little, L Benjamin, M Packer, R Packard, S Prasad)
  • Instructor - A video bouquet of phaco complications which should never have occurred: With tips on damage control and prevention to optimize postoperative outcome instruction course conducted ESCRS 2009 Barcelona (A Chakrabarti, K Tija,   B Little,   S Prasad,   A Vasavada,   S Bhattacharjee) and 2010 Paris (A Chakrabarti, K Tija,   B Little,   S Prasad,   A Vasavada,   R Yeoh).
  • Lead instructor Scleral Fixation Techniques instruction course conducted ESCRS Barcelona 2009 (S Prasad, D Spalton, G Scharioth, A Agarwal, S Bhattacharjee) and Paris 2010 (S Prasad, G Scharioth, A Agarwal, S Bhattacharjee) and Vienna 2011 (S Prasad, G Scharioth, A Agarwal, S Bhattacharjee).
  • Instructor Editing: The key to successful ophthalmic videos ( S Bhattacharjee, S Prasad, A Paul) instruction course conducted ESCRS 2009 Barcelona.
  • Instructor Subluxated IOLs: Relocation Techniques (S Bhattacharjee, R H Osher, I K Ahmed, R S Hoffman, B E Malyugin, A Chakrabarti, S Prasad), instruction course conducted at the annual congress of ASCRS 2009 and ASCRS 2010.
  •  Instructor Phacoemulsification in eyes with coexisting vitreoretinal pathologies instruction course conducted at the Annual congress of AAO 2009 San Francisco (A Chakrabarti, W Hill, K Miller, S Masket, A Vasavada, J Tityal, S Skip Nichamin, S Prasad), Annual Congress of ASCRS 2009 (M Chakrabarti, A Chakrabarti, S Maskett, K M Miller, B E Malyugin, W E Hill, S Prasad),  ESCRS 2010 Paris (M Chakrabarti, A Chakrabarti, K Hoffer, S Prasad, A Vasavada, R Sinha) and ESCRS Vienna 2011 (S. Prasad G. Scharioth R. Sinha A. Vasavada K.J. Hoffer R. Packard) .
  • Instructor: Capsule Tension ring Masterclass (B Little, S Prasad), AAO annual congress 2009 San Francisco, ASCRS Annual Congress Sann Diego 2011 & ASCRS Congress Boston 2010 and ASCRS Annual Congress 2009 San Francisco, ASCRS Annual Congress Chicago 2008 and ESCRS Berlin 2008, ESCRS Barcelona 2009 & ESCRS Paris 2010, AAO Annual Congress 2010 Chicago.
  • Instructor - IOL Explantation & Secondary IOL implantation techniques instruction course at ESCRS 2010 Paris (S Prasad, R Osher, C Mehta, S Prasad) and ESCRS Vienna 2011.
  • Faculty on Royal College of Ophthalmologists Advanced phaco microsurgical skills course (S Prasad, M Watts) February 2008 onwards
  • Faculty on the Royal College of Ophthalmologists microsurgical skills course, 2005 onwards.
  • Lead instructor for course - Anterior vitrectomy Masterclass (S Prasad, B Little and R Osher), ESCRS 2011 Vienna
  • Lead instructor for course Anterior vitrectomy techniques for the cataract surgeon at ESCRS 2006 London (S Prasad, B Little, R Osher, U Devgan), 2007 - Stockholm (S Prasad, B Little, R Osher), 2008 Berlin (S Prasad, B Little, R Osher),  2009- Barcelona (S Prasad, B Little, R Osher) and ESCRS 2010 Paris (S Prasad, B Little, R Osher).
  • Faculty on Phaco: Management of Complications Surgical skills wetlab at ESCRS 2006 London (B Little, S Prasad, U Devgan), 2007 Stockholm  (B little, S Prasad, R Packard, M Packer), & 2008 Berlin ( B Little, S Prasad, C Woon) & 2009 Barcelona (B Little, S Prasad, L Benjamin, C Woon).
  • Senior Instructor - Extreme Retina - (Prasad S, Nagpal M, Kamath GG)   Instruction Course at All India Ophthalmology Society Annual Congress - Kolkata, India January 2010.
  • Instructor - Oscars calling - (Chief Instructor Biswas A, Co-Instructors Basak SK, Paul A, Bhattacharjee S, Biswas A, Biswas P )   Instruction Course at AIOS[3] Annual Congress - Kolkata, India, January 2010.
  • Instructor - Sutureless Vitrectomy: gauging the outcome (Chief Instructor M Nagpal, Co-Instructor Muralidhar NS)   Instruction Course at AIOS Congress - Kolkata, India, January 2010.
  • Instructor - Video Bouquet of phaco pearls for optimal outcomes - (Chief Instructor Chakrabarti A, Co-instructors Shah Y, Styamurthy, Bhattacharjee S, Saikumar SJ, Sundaramurthy SK, Venkatesh )   Instruction Course at AIOS Congress - Kolkata, India, January 2010. 
  • Instructor - PC rent - no longer a nightmare - A systematic approach to manage PC rent during cataract surgery. (Chief Instructor Sathyamurthy KV, Co-Instructors Haldiprkar S, Chakrabarti A, Rao SK, Guruprasad, Saikumar SJ, Bhattacharjee S )   Instruction Course at AIOS Annual Congress - Kolkata, India, January 2010.


[1] ESCRS = European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons

[2] WOC = World Ophthalmology Congress

[3] AIOS = All India Opthalmology Society