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S.R.Rathinam FAMS, PhD, Principal, Prof. of Ophthalmology and Head of Uveitis Service is working at Aravind Eye Hospital & PG Institute ophthalmology, Tamil Nadu, India.
She established uveitis clinic at Aravind 30 years back after her training under Prof. Namperumal swamy, Her basic, epidemiological and clinical research uncovered the cause, source and pathogenesis for three new unknown infectious disease outbreaks, which include Ocular Leptospirosis, Trematode eye disease in children and Ocular West Nile virus infection.
Teaching experience- 32 years Uveitis service -30 years
Invited Faculty American academy uveitis sub specialty day for past 12 years
Visiting Professor Proctor foundation, UCSF, San Francisco 2017
Visiting Professor LVP eye institute, Bhubaneswar 2017
Invited Faculty in International Conferences: (34)
Invited Faculty in National Conferences – (107)
Publications:
Total number of publication including Book chapters at present -151
Total number of publication including Book chapters at present -151
Total citations of these publications received are 2911, h-index-31, i10-index- 59, fifty nine papers have received more than 10 citations. Maximum citation received by the land mark paper on epidemiology is 362. (As on 8/2/2022) Book chapters: 30 She has contributed chapters for books published in India, United Kingdom, Germany, Korea and the United States of America, Co Editor for Wills eye manual uvea atlas, USA and authored a manual on Ocular Pharmacology.