Dr. Amar Agarwal

• Over 40 years in advanced ophthalmic practice, surgery, innovation, education, and leadership.

• Chairman & Managing Director, Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital (network of 190+ eye hospitals in India and abroad)

• Former President, International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS)

• Secretary General & Scientific Committee Chairman, Intraocular Implant & Refractive Society of India (IIRSI)

• Frequent surgical trainer, author of over 50 books, and influential thought-leader in global ophthalmology

• Pioneer of Phakonit, Microphakonit, Bimanual Phaco, No anesthesia cataract surgery, FAVIT technique

• First to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes

• Discovered “Aberropia,” a new refractive error

• First to perform and publish techniques for glued IOL, mirror telescopic IOL implantation for AMD, Anterior segment transplantation in infants, and Pre-Descemet’s Endothelial Keratoplasty (PDEK)

• Authored 50+ books in ophthalmology; published extensive peer-reviewed research

• Best Doctor Award of the State Government (Tamil Nadu)

• Barraquer and Kelman Awards for surgical innovation

• Multiple international awards and “Top 10 Ophthalmologist” recognitions

Prof. Amar Agarwal is the  the Chairman of Dr. Agarwals Eye Hospitals group.  He is a pioneer in Phakonit surgeries and has rolled out quite a few innovations from the surgical tables of his hospital. Be it a glued IOL on a senior patient or an anterior segment transplantation in a four months old child, Prof. Amar is simply an artist, when it comes to complicated eye surgeries.

He is also the Chairman of the Scientific Committee,  Intraocular Implant & Refractive Society, India.

Prof. Amar Agarwal has won many awards for his revolutionary innovations in ophthalmology, the most significant being the Barraquer and the Kelman awards. When he is not restoring vision or training doctors from across the globe, Prof. Amar writes about ophthalmology. He has authored over 50 books that have been published in various languages. His patients remember every single interaction with him and feel that with a single magical word “Beta” (child in Hindi), he is able to put them at absolute ease even at the most difficult times.