Samar Kumar BASAK, MD
India

Dr. Samar K Basak, MD, DNB, FRCS, is Director and one of the founder members of Disha Eye Hospitals, Kolkata, India. Disha Eye Hospital is the largest Private eye care service provider in Eastern India with 18 branches in West Bengal. He looks after Cataract, Cornea and External eye diseases, and Eye Bank services. 

Currently, he is the President of All India Ophthalmological Society. 

He is the recipient of 11 Gold Medal Awards from All India Ophthalmological Society Conferences: 8 other Gold Medal oration and prestigious Prof LP Agarwal Oration from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. 

Internationally, he has received the “Best of Show” Video Award 6 times, Best Paper Award, and Best Poster Award 5 times in the American Academy of Ophthalmology Congress. He has also bagged the Best Video Award 2 times in ESCRS and “People’s Choice” Best Video Award in ASCRS-2012. He has received “Achievement Award” by the AAO in 2008 and by the APAO in 2011; Senior Achievement Award by the AAO in 2015 and Senior Scholar Award by the AAO in 2017.

Dr. Basak, an FRCS Examiner since 2008, has written seven books in Ophthalmology including “Essentials of Ophthalmology” (8th Edition) and “Ophthalmology: Oral & Practical” (5th Edition) for the undergraduate, postgraduate students and comprehensive ophthalmologists which are very popular. He has 53 publications in national and international peer-review indexed journals. He is the reviewer of 11 prestigious peer-review journals, including Ophthalmology and Cornea Journal.

He is involved with teaching and training program (Phaco/SICS; and DSEK/DMEK/Boston Kpro1 Skill Transfer Course) with ORBIS, SightLife and Visionaries-International, in India, Pacific Island and South-East Asia regions. He is a bulk Phaco surgeon @2500/year; and Keratoplasty (PK/DALK/DSEK/DMEK/Boston KPro I & II) surgeon performing approx. @250/year. He is obsessed with DMEK in recent years, performing >200/year and has performed >1300 DMEK in a short span of 8 years.

In leisure time, he is busy with his unique hobby – “Ophtha-Philately” (Ophthalmology + Philately), collecting and studying ‘Postage stamp only related to ophthalmology’. He has more than 650 stamps in his collection and he has also written a book entitled “Ophtha-Philately”.