Prof Jagat Ram of Advanced Eye Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh was awarded what is called the Oscar of Ophthalmology, the ‘Best of the Best’ Award at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Annual Conference held at New Orleans, USA.
This is the most prestigious honour bestowed on any ophthalmlogist chosen in a global competition. Surgical videos on recent and innovative techniques were submitted from all over the world for evaluation to this Congress. Finally approximately 120 best surgical videos are short listed for presentation. Ten best surgical video are selected by a jury of International Experts for the awards. Finally, Best of the Best Winner is chosen out of these ten winners. This year Prof Jagat Ram received this award from David R Hardten, the Supreme judge for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Conference in an award ceremony for a new innovative and inspirational surgical technique performed for children with complicated cataract in persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous which is a birth defect. This eye condition was considered incurable in the past.
In 2013, Prof Jagat Ram received same award at ASCRS conference at San Francisco for a unique surgery performed on a child with two crystalline lenses in the same eye.