Hadi PRAKOSO, MD
Indonesia

Hadi Prakoso Wreksoatmodjo, SpM (K), or mostly known as Hadi Prakoso, was graduated as medical doctor from the University of Indonesia-Jakarta, in 1977. As a government employee, after serving as general practitioner in remote area of Maluku province in the eastern part of Indonesia for nearly 8 years, he started his ophthalmology training in the same university and graduated in 1989. And then he was appointed to work in Bali for one and half year, where he performed the first IOL implantation in that island in 1991.

In 1992 he came back to Jakarta, working as junior staff member of University of Indonesia, in the Strabismus sub Division of the Department of Ophthalmology. During his time in the university, he studied Low Vision Aid in Tokyo-Japan (1995), and continued studying Strabismus and Oculoplastic in Melbourne-Australia (1995-1996). Upon his return from Australia he chaired the Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus society in Indonesia for seven years (1996-2003), and delivered numerous lectures and courses in national meetings.

He used to be the secretary general of the Indonesian Ophthalmologist Association (IOA)(1996-2003), and was also deeply involved in conducting charity mass cataract surgery organized by IOA in 1989-1998.

His great passion to cataract and refractive surgery forced him to learn phacoemulsification and Lasik by himself since 1997. He also attended many courses abroad on cataract and refractive surgery including iris claw phakic IOL. His endless effort to improve his skill and to master various surgical techniques, leads him to be one of the high volume surgeons in the region. He had conducted instructional course and wet lab on Artisan Phakic IOL in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in 2006, and several times in Indonesia.

Since 2007, he had been assigned as a Certified International Trainer for VISX CUSTOM VUE LASIK. Due to his wide and extensive experience in this field, he was invited to give lectures and didactic courses on challenging cases in national and international meetings respectively such as APAO, APACRS and WOC.

He had also performed live surgeries in Indonesia, India and Australia. His enormous experiences in implanting over than thousand premium IOLs (both Toric and Multifocus) in the last 4 years, put him to be one of the most respectable premium surgeons in Indonesia. Since 2012 he actively joined the INASCRS as scientific board member.