Prashant GARG, MD
India

Prashant Garg is the Executive Chairman of L V Prasad Eye Institute. He has held several leadership positions of the institute before being elected to the present position. He is also the Paul Dubord chair of Cornea, and network director of eye banks of the institute. 

Dr. Garg obtained his medical degree (1987) and residency in Ophthalmology (1991) from Ravindra Nath Tagore Medical College Udaipur affiliated with the Rajasthan University, Jaipur. He completed his cornea fellowship from L V Prasad Eye Institute and joined the organization as faculty in cornea and anterior segment services in 1997. In addition to Ophthalmology training programs, he has attended the “Leadership Development Program” at the Center for Creative Leadership, North Carolina, USA in 2015 and “Program for Educators in Health Professions” at the Harvard Macy Institute, Boston in 2016.

His primary area of interest and ongoing research is Corneal infection. He has published extensively on epidemiology, clinical features of rare infections, antibiotic resistance in ocular isolates, and drug delivery systems. He has received several major grants including ones from Wellcome Trust UK, Newton Bhabha Fund - a joint program of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and the Medical Research Council UK, UK Research and Innovation, Department of Biotechnology, and the Indian Council of Medical Research. He has published 199 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. With a total citation of 4221, he has an h-index of 37. For the last two consecutive years, his name appeared in the list of the top 2% of researchers in the world – a list published by Stanford University.

He is a member of various national and international ophthalmology societies including the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, All India Ophthalmology Society, and Asia Cornea Society. He is on the board of the International Joint Commission for Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology (IJCAHPO), Eye and Contact Lens Association (ECLA) and the ICO subcommittee on allied health education. He is a member of the advisory board of World Health Organization (WHO) committee on tissue banking. He also served as the president of the Ocular Microbiology Immunology Group (2013). He is a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, and Eye and Contact Lens Journal. Most recently he has been selected to be included as a member of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis – a university-centred international organisation committed to excellence in education, research, and culturally appropriate medical services to preserve and restore vision for people of the world. He is the fifth Indian to receive this recognition since the inception of the organisation in 1975. 

He is the recipient of several awards. Prestigious R P Dhanda and International Ophthalmic Heroes of India awards from All India Ophthalmological Society (2024), the “senior achievement award” from the American Academy of Ophthalmology (2013), and the achievement award of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology 2013. He is a member of the UKRI International Development Peer Review College.