Rajeev Prasad

India

Dr. Rajeev Prasad is a senior clinical Optometrist and has 4 practices in different provinces of India including Noida & Gurgaon in Delhi NCR, Jamshedpur & Patna. Dr. Prasad is also the founder of Eye Gurukul, a dynamic online learning platform in the eye and vision care segment. Besdie his Bachelors and Masters he also has completed Low Vision fellowship from prestigious LV Prasad eye Institute in 1st batch, Hyderabad, 2002 and was awarded scholarship by Tata’s group. He has also done Bachelor’s in Homeopathy (BHMS). Dr. Prasad was also trained in JAPAN and the US in eye screening for special population and further served for 5 years as Asia Pacific Director for Health at the Special Olympics international, USA. He has presented as invited speaker to several national and international forums of Optometry. He at present is among two members from India of College of Syntonics, USA. He has also served as Organizing Chairman for national conference AIOC 2018 held at Constitution club of India, New Delhi, Dr. Prasad served as Organizing Secretary of India’s first virtual International Conference IOA2020 (38th All India Optometry Conference) 4-6 December, 2020. He was also the organizing chairman of first Asia Pacific Optometric Congress 2023 held at Gurugram, India. Dr. Prasad is the only Indian Optometrist to receive the honour of the most prestigious “OPTOMETRIST OF THE YEAR” award for the years 2018 & 2020. Currently Dr. Prasad is Secretary General of the Indian Optometry Association and President of Asia Pacific Council of Optometry. He also serves on the board of directors of the World Council of Optometry and is part of the Public Health Committee. Dr. Prasad is widely travelled across most countries of Asia and the US. He has the accolade for establishing the Low Vision rehabilitation department at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College at Aligarh, Dr. Hedgewar Rugnalaya, Aurangabad and Vivekananda Medical Foundation & Research Centre, Latur, Maharashtra. He been invited at various national and international forums including All Indian Ophthalmological society several times as speaker and has conducted several workshops on Low Vision Rehabilitation, Myopia Management, Orthokeratology and Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation along with other Optometric specialty in the US and Asia Pacific. He is also a Visiting Faculty at Chandigarh University, Ludhiana, Punjab for Master’s students. He is passionate about Low Vision Rehabilitation and Neuro Optometry.