作者: Tulika Chauhan

Maj Gen Sagarika Patyal SM, VSM served as the Assistant Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (medical) at Army HQ Delhi, head of department of ophthalmology at Army Hospital (Research & Referral) Delhi, head of department of ophthalmology at Army Base Hospital Delhi Cantt, professor at Armed Forces Medical College at Pune, and is the only lady officer to have commanded the world’s highest General Hospital at Leh (11400 ft), where she was instrumental in establishing telemedicine nodes in high altitude (Siachen) to help soldiers stationed in the highest battleground in the world. She has many publications in peer reviewed international and national journals to her credit and has written chapters in books and has edited a book “Resolving dilemmas in Perimetry”. Dr Patyal is recognized as a supervisor to guide post-graduate degree and diploma students by Delhi University, UG and PG teacher and examiner by the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and Guru Gobind University; served as MCI Inspector for MBBS, inspector for DNB, national faculty for glaucoma, and faculty in Delhi Ophthalmological Society Postgraduate Teaching Program and IFOCUS; reviewer for the Medical Journal of Armed Forces of India (MJAFI), reviewer for J Clin Ophthalmol Res, reviewer Delhi Journal of Ophthalmology , MDPI and Cureus Medical Publishing online journal. Dr. Tulika Chauhan, MS Ophthalmology, FICO(MEEI), FIAS, Fellow Cornea & External Disease (UCLA) has completed her graduation and residency from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College (DAVV University) Indore, M.P, India and trained in anterior segment surgeries from various Indian institutes, like Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Center (Kolkata), Venu Eye Institute & Research Center (New Delhi) and Chandraprabha Eye Hospital (Assam). She pursued fellowship in cornea, external disease and refractive surgeries from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, University of Harvard (Boston) and Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles). She is a senior consultant ophthalmologist in cornea, cataract and refractive services at Centre for Sight Eye Institute, New Delhi, India. Before that she was working as a visiting consultant in cornea services at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany). She has a vast experience in performing cataract, refractive and corneal surgeries and managing complicated diseases and surgical complications. She has presented her research at various national and international platforms and published her work in many peer reviewed international and national journals. She is a reviewer for Translational Vision Science & Technology (TVST, ARVO Journal), Eye SEA (AECOM Journal) and Cureus Medical Publishing online journal. She is actively involved in training of DNBs and fellows.