Dr Meher Kothari Chat

• Winner of the YKC Pandit overall Best Research Paper Award of Maharashtra Ophthalmic Society for the Year 2007. • Winner of the National Ophthalmic Quiz at AIOC, Feb 2007, Hyderabad • Long term visual outcome after primary intraocular lens implantation following Pediatric Penetrating Trauma.Best Research Paper in Trauma AIOS, 2002; New Delhi • A Novel Technique of Assessing Distance Stereopsis Using TNO Test and Inverted Telescope System. Best Paper Award in Strabismus at Conference of the All India Ophthalmological Society, Bhuvneshwar, India (Jan, 2005). • Ultrarapid school vision screening using the Brückner test ASIA-ARVO 2009, January, Hyderabad, India (Best Poster Award) • Evaluation of TNO test, Titmus test and Lang test for assessment of stereoacuity. AIOC, 3rd-6th Feb, 2011, Ahmedabad. Best Poster – Squint • Absence of retinal vasculature – did it disappear or never appeared? AIOC, 3rd-6th Feb, 2011, Ahmedabad. Best Poster – Pediatric • Angle kappa measurement using a slit lamp. MOSCON 2011, JW Marriot, Pune, 21st Oct, 2011. Sante Vision –INNOVATION AWARD. • A novel formula for simultaneous recession and resection of the same rectus muscle in the management of squint with near-distance in-comitance. Best Research by an Academic Private Practitioner Award. • Best Academic Private Practitioner award. MOSCON 2013, Nagpur, MOSCON, 2013. • Best paper award / Dr Prem Prakash Award for best research in Pediatric Ophthalmology ,AIOC 2014, 6-9th Feb, 2014, Agra, India • Innovation award, converting a wired-halogen indirect ophthalmoscope to a wireless-LED indirect ophthalmoscope in < 1000 rupees. Moscon 2014 – Solapur • Best research in Neuroophthalmology award of All India Ophthalmological Society. AIOC 2015, 5th-8thFebruary, New Delhi, India.

Dr Kothari has numerous publications and researches under his credits.

• The Kariapatti paediatric eye evaluation project: baseline ophthalmic data of children aged 15 years or younger in Southern India. Am J Ophthalmol. 2003 Oct; 136(4):703-9.
• The incidence of vitreous loss and visual outcome in patients undergoing cataract surgery in a teaching hospital. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2003 Mar; 51(1):45-52.
• Intracameral amphotericin B injection in the management of deep keratomycosis. Cornea. 2002 Oct; 21(7):653-6.
• Can Bruckner test be used as a Rapid Screening Test for the detection of amylogenic factors in developing countries? Am Orthopt J. 2003
• Paediatric ophthalmology and strabismus in India. J AAPOS. 2004 Feb; 8(1):18-9.
• Can ocular torsion be measured using the slit lamp bio microscope? Indian J Ophthalmol. 2005 Mar; 53(1):43-7.
• Recurrence of bilateral herpes simplex virus keratitis following bimatoprost use. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2006 Mar; 54(1):47-8.
• Giant corneal implantation cyst after the filtering surgery. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2006 Jun; 54(2):117.
• Clinical characteristics of spontaneous late-onset comitant acute non accommodative esotropia in children Indian J Ophthalmol. 2007 Mar-Apr; 55(2):117-20.
• Primary superior oblique muscle-levator muscle synkinesis. J AAPOS. 2007 Apr; 11(2):204-5.
• Precaruncular approach for the periosteal transfixation of the globe in congenital third nerve palsy. J AAPOS. 2007 Apr; 11(2):207-8.
• A report on 65th Annual conference of All India Ophthalmic Society. Sunayana 2007 Expert Rev Ophthalmol 2(3). 341-342,2007.
• Anterior dislocation of a sulcus fixated posterior chamber intraocular lens in a high myopia. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2008 January-February; 56(1):78-80.
• Fornix incision, hangback suture technique for squint surgery. Text book of Ophthalmology. Edited by H V Nema