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Brief Profile
Dr Aarti Kabra
MBBS, DO, DNB (Ophthalmology),
FMRF (SQUINT), FICO (UK)
Dr Aarti Kabra, daughter to Ophthalmologist’s parents did her medicine from Bharati Vidyapeeth's Medical College, Pune in 1999 and completed her postgraduation in Ophthalmology and fellowship training in strabismus at the esteemed Sankara Nethralaya, Medical & Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu (2000-2005). She is a fellow of International Council of Ophthalmology UK. Stalwarts like Dr TS Surendran have been her mentor and thesis guide.
Dr Aarti Kabra has been working for the community since 2004. She has actively participated in 100 diagnostic and surgical squint eye camps with Pune Netraseva Pratishthan, Pune –since 2004 and has done more than 1000 surgeries in community camps and aspires to do more. She has done more than 12000 surgeries in her private practice in past 18 yrs.
Awards
- Best Outgoing Post Graduate Student (2003), Medical Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya
- Ranraagini Puraskar by Shiv Smruti Parivaar, Pune in 2009 for YOUNG LADY ACHEIVER in the field of social and community medicine
- Nirmala Puraskar 2015 by Nirmala Lokkalyan Prabodhini, Nasik, Maharashtra for outstanding community services by a woman
- Name noted in Limca Book of Records -2009(132 surgeries) 2010, 2011(157 surgeries) for doing maximum squint surgeries (37 & 43) in a day with team of 8 surgeons.
- Name recorded in Asia Book Of Records in 2015 for doing maximum number of squint surgeries (159) in a day.
She is recipient of various awards
Associations
She is a member of various associations and societies like
- All India Ophthalmological Society
- Maharashtra Ophthalmological Association
- Sankara Nethralaya Alumni
- Poona Ophthalmic Society
- Strabismological Society of India
- WSPOS
- IIRSI
