Gullapalli Nageswara Rao

Indian ophthalmologist

Gullapalli Nageswara Rao
గుళ్ళపల్లి నాగేశ్వరరావు

Born|

Chodavaram, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India

Occupation| Ophthalmologist
Medical career
Institutions| L V Prasad Eye Institute
Awards| Padma Shri
American Academy of Ophthalmology Honor Award
International Blindness Prevention Award
AEBA Award
2017 Ophthalmology Hall of Fame

Gullapalli Nageswara Rao is an Indian ophthalmologist, the chairman of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (AOI)[1] and the founder of the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad.[2] A former associate professor at the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochester, Rao is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India.[2] He was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.[3] He was elected in 2017 to the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame instituted by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.[4]

## Personal life[edit]

At the age of three he was sent to his maternal uncle living in Edupagallu village near to Vijayawada.[5] He studied there until his class 8 at a Telugu school.[5] Following his father, who lived in Chennai near famous ophthalmologist Govindappa Venkataswamy (the founder of Aravind Eye Hospital) Rao decided to become an Ophthalmologist.[5]

## Education and career[edit]

After completing his basic medical education in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, Rao completed his postgraduate residency training in ophthalmology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.[6] He has received the degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from the University of Melbourne, the Honor Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, International Blindness Prevention Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology[2][7] and the AEBA Award from the Association of Eye Bank of Asia. Rao has served the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness as a board member, the secretary general (1998) and the president (2004) on various occasions.[2] Apart from training abroad, he is also serving as visiting professor at several universities in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia.[6] As of 2020, Rao has published more than 300 papers in peer reviewed national and international journals and has served on the editorial boards of several journals.[6] He has five honorary doctorates from Australia, United Kingdom and India.[8]

## Awards and honors[edit]

* 2012: Padma Shree
* 2017: Included in the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame at the meeting of American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS), Los Angeles.[6]
* Vision Excellence Award- The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)[8]
* World Cornea Congress Medal from International Cornea Society for outstanding contribution to the field of cornea[8]
* Invited Editorial for the 100th year issue of British Journal of Ophthalmology[8]
* He was honored with the institution of ‘Gullapalli N Rao – AIOS Endowment Lecture’ by the All India Ophthalmological Society[8]
* 1983: Honor Award of American Academy of Ophthalmology[9]
* 1996: Fellowship of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India[9]
* 2006: International Blindness Prevention Award, by the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology[9]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "AOI". AOI. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
2. ^ a b c d "University of Melbourne" (PDF). University of Melbourne. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
3. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Padma Awards. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
4. ^ "Gullapalli Nageswara Rao - Eyeing the Fame". Sulabh Swachh Bharat. January 2017. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017.
5. ^ a b c "Dr Gullapalli Rao - The Power Of Vision". Forbes India.
6. ^ a b c d "Hyderabad Doc Who Returned From US to Help the Blind Wins $3 Million Global Prize". The Better India. 9 December 2020.
7. ^ "Kammavelugu". Kammavelugu. 30 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
8. ^ a b c d e "Vision Excellence Awards: Gullapalli Nageswara Rao". The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.
9. ^ a b c "PROPOSAL FOR AWARD OF HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MEDICINE DR GULLAPALLI NAGESWARA (NAG) RAO" (PDF). University of Melbourne.

## External links[edit]

* "Margadarshi Archival - Gullapalli Nageswara Rao". YouTube video. ETV News. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
* "Gullapalli Nagaraja Rao". Sulabh Swachh Bharat. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017. Picture of Gullapalli Nageswara Rao
* Gullapalli Nageswara Rao publications indexed by Google Scholar

* India portal
* Medicine portal

* v
* t
* e

Recipients of Padma Shri in Medicine

1950s|

* Bir Bhan Bhatia (1954)
* V. R. Khanolkar (1954)
* Perakath Verghese Benjamin (1955)
* Mahesh Prasad Mehray (1955)
* Murugappa Channaveerappa Modi (1956)
* Chintaman Govind Pandit (1956)
* Isaac Santra (1956)
* Khushdeva Singh (1957)

1960s|

* Hilda Mary Lazarus (1961)
* George William Gregory Bird (1963)
* Hakim Abdul Hameed (1965)
* Jerusha Jhirad (1966)
* Edith Helen Paull (1967)
* Amar Prasad Ray (1967)
* Natteri Veeraraghavan (1967)
* B. K. Anand (1969)
* Ram Kumar Caroli (1969)
* Vulimiri Ramalingaswami (1969)
* Krishna Gopal Saxena (1969)

1970s|

* Ajit Kumar Basu (1970)
* Coluthur Gopalan (1970)
* Perugu Siva Reddy (1970)
* B. N. B. Rao (1971)
* Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi (1971)
* Dorothy Chacko (1972)
* Thayil John Cherian (1972)
* Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi (1972)
* Balu Sankaran (1972)
* K. N. Udupa (1972)
* R. Marthanda Varma (1972)
* Mary Verghese (1972)
* K. T. Dholakia (1973)
* M. K. Krishna Menon (1973)
* J. M. Pahwa (1973)
* Prakash Narain Tandon (1973)
* Jamshed Vazifdar (1973)
* Govindappa Venkataswamy (1973)
* Mani Kumar Chetri (1974)
* Nagarur Gopinath (1974)
* L. S. N. Prasad (1974)
* Kadiyala Ramachandra (1974)
* Reuben David (1975)
* Stanley John (1975)
* Mary Poonen Lukose (1975)
* Kadiyala Ramachandra (1975)
* Durga Deulkar (1976)
* Lucy Oommen (1977)

1980s|

* Jasbir Singh Bajaj (1981)
* P. K. Sethi (1981)
* K. Vardachari Thiruvengadam (1981)
* C. P. Thakur (1982)
* Raj Vir Singh Yadav (1982)
* S. S. Badrinath (1983)
* Raj Baveja (1983)
* Shishupal Ram (1983)
* Purshottam Lal Wahi (1983)
* B. K. Goyal (1984)
* Vera Hingorani (1984)
* K. P. Mathur (1984)
* N. Balakrishnan Nair (1984)
* Hariharan Srinivasan (1984)
* Ramniklal K. Gandhi (1985)
* Samiran Nundy (1985)
* Usha Sharma (1985)
* M. S. Valiathan (1985)
* Gopal Krishna Vishwakarma (1985)
* Santosh Kumar Kackar (1986)
* V. Shanta (1986)
* Prabhu Dayal Nigam (1987)
* Daljit Singh (1987)
* Harbans Singh Wasir (1987)

1990s|

* N. H. Antia (1990)
* M. G. Deo (1990)
* P. K. Rajagopalan (1990)
* M. M. S. Ahuja (1991)
* Sneh Bhargava (1991)
* K. M. Cherian (doctor) (1991)
* G. N. Malviya (1991)
* Shiela Mehra (1991)
* S. C. Munshi (1991)
* M. N. Passey (1991)
* Jai Pal Singh (1991)
* Naresh Trehan (1991)
* Rathin Datta (1992)
* Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed (1992)
* Anil Kohli (1992)
* Ramesh Kumar (nephrologist) (1992)
* Usha Kehar Luthra (1992)
* J. S. Mahashabde (1992)
* P. V. A. Mohandas (1992)
* E. T. Neelakandan Mooss (1992)
* Kameshwar Prasad (1992)
* Luis Jose De Souza (1992)
* Amrit Tewari (1992)
* G. S. Venkataraman (1992)
* Ranjit Roy Chaudhury (1998)
* K. A. Abraham (1999)
* Raj Bothra (1999)
* Balendu Prakash (1999)
* Devendra Triguna (1999)
* P. K. Warrier (1999)

2000s|

* Mahendra Bhandari (2000)
* Vipin Buckshey (2000)
* Vaidya Suresh Chaturvedi (2000)
* Kirpal Singh Chugh (2000)
* P. K. Dave (2000)
* Mathew Kalarickal (2000)
* Kakarla Subba Rao (2000)
* G. S. Sainani (2000)
* Immaneni Sathyamurthy (2000)
* Jyoti Bhushan Banerji (2001)
* Alaka Deshpande (2001)
* Sharad Kumar Dixit (2001)
* Chittoor Mohammed Habeebullah (2001)
* M. Krishnan Nair (2001)
* Dasari Prasada Rao (2001)
* Laishram Nabakishore Singh (2001)
* Bhupathiraju Somaraju (2001)
* Suresh H. Advani (2002)
* Pradeep Chowbey (2002)
* Vijay Kumar Dada (2002)
* Prakash Nanalal Kothari (2002)
* Harsh Mahajan (2002)
* Vikram Marwah (2002)
* Atluri Sriman Narayana (2002)
* Kamaljit Singh Paul (2002)
* Karimpat Mathangi Ramakrishnan (2002)
* Gullapalli Nageswara Rao (2002)
* D. Nageshwar Reddy (2002)
* Prahlad Kumar Sethi (2002)
* J. S. Guleria (2003)
* Narayana Panicker Kochupillai (2003)
* Rajagopalan Krishnan (2003)
* Ashok Seth (2003)
* Vijay Prakash (2003)
* Sharad Moreshwar Hardikar (2004)
* S. C. Manchanda (2004)
* Ashwin Balachand Mehta (2004)
* S. K. Sama (2004)
* Rajan Saxena (physician) (2004)
* Devi Shetty (2004)
* Gopal Prasad Sinha (2004)
* G. Bakthavathsalam (2005)
* Jitendra Mohan Hans (2005)
* P. N. V. Kurup (2005)
* Veer Singh Mehta (2005)
* Lavu Narendranath (2005)
* Cyrus S. Poonawalla (2005)
* Sanjeev Bagai (2006)
* Mohan Kameswaran (2006)
* Upendra Kaul (2006)
* Tsering Landol (2006)
* Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman (2006)
* Harbhajan Singh Rissam (2006)
* Kamal Kumar Sethi (2006)
* Tehemton Erach Udwadia (2006)
* Harpinder Singh Chawla (2007)
* Narmada Prasad Gupta (2007)
* Ashok Kumar Hemal (2007)
* Atul Kumar (ophthalmologist) (2007)
* C. N. Manjunath (2007)
* Anoop Misra (2007)
* P. Namperumalsamy (2007)
* Mayilvahanan Natarajan (2007)
* K. R. Palaniswamy (2007)
* Mahipal S. Sachdev (2007)
* B. Paul Thaliath (2007)
* Sheo Bhagwan Tibrewal (2007)
* Mohsin Wali (2007)
* S. N. Arya (2008)
* Dinesh K. Bhargava (2008)
* Tony Fernandez (ophthalmologist) (2008)
* Rakesh Kumar Jain (2008)
* Raman Kapur (2008)
* T. P. Lahane (2008)
* Keiki R. Mehta (2008)
* M. C. Pant (2008)
* Arjunan Rajasekaran (2008)
* Malvika Sabharwal (2008)
* Indu Bhushan Sinha (2008)
* Randhir Sud (2008)
* C. U. Velmurugendran (2008)
* Kalyan Banerjee (2009)
* Balswarup Choubey (2009)
* Saibaba Goud (2009)
* Yash Gulati (2009)
* P. R. Krishna Kumar (2009)
* Arvind Lal (2009)
* D. S. Rana (2009)
* Thanikachalam Sadagopan (2009)
* Ashok K. Vaid (2009)
* G. Vijayaraghavan (2009)

2010s|

* K. K. Aggarwal (2010)
* Philip Augustine (2010)
* Anil Kumar Bhalla (2010)
* Kodaganur S. Gopinath (2010)
* Laxmi Chand Gupta (2010)
* Jalakantapuram Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthy (2010)
* Vikas Mahatme (2010)
* B. Ramana Rao (2010)
* Rabindra Narain Singh (2010)
* Arvinder Singh Soin (2010)
* Madanur Ahmed Ali (2011)
* Pukhraj Bafna (2011)
* Mansoor Hasan (2011)
* Indira Hinduja (2011)
* Shyama Prasad Mandal (2011)
* Jose Chacko Periappuram (2011)
* A. Marthanda Pillai (2011)
* Sivapatham Vittal (2011)
* Nitya Anand (2012)
* Mukesh Batra (2012)
* Mahdi Hasan (2012)
* Jugal Kishore (2012)
* V. Mohan (2012)
* J. Hareendran Nair (2012)
* Vallalarpuram Sennimalai Natarajan (2012)
* Jitendra Kumar Singh (2012)
* Shrinivas S. Vaishya (2012)
* Sudarshan K. Aggarwal (2013)
* Rajendra Achyut Badwe (2013)
* Krishna Chandra Chunekar (2013)
* Taraprasad Das (2013)
* T. V. Devarajan (2013)
* Saroj Chooramani Gopal (2013)
* Vishwa Kumar Gupta (2013)
* Pramod Kumar Julka (2013)
* Gulshan Rai Khatri (2013)
* Ganesh Kumar Mani (2013)
* Amit Prabhakar Maydeo (2013)
* Sundaram Natarajan (2013)
* C. Venkata S. Ram (2013)
* Kiritkumar Mansukhlal Acharya (2014)
* Subrat Kumar Acharya (2014)
* Balram Bhargava (2014)
* Indira Chakravarty (2014)
* Ramakant Krishnaji Deshpande (2014)
* Pawan Raj Goyal (2014)
* Rajesh Kumar Grover (2014)
* Amod Gupta (2014)
* Daya Kishore Hazra (2014)
* Thenumgal Poulose Jacob (2014)
* Shashank R. Joshi (2014)
* Hakim Syed Khaleefathullah (2014)
* Milind Vasant Kirtane (2014)
* Lalit Kumar (2014)
* Mohan Mishra (2014)
* Vamsi Mootha (2014)
* Siddhartha Mukherjee (2014)
* Nitish Naik (2014)
* M. Subhadra Nair (2014)
* Ashok Panagariya (2014)
* Narendra Kumar Pandey (2014)
* Sunil Pradhan (2014)
* Ashok Rajgopal (2014)
* Kamini A. Rao (2014)
* Sarbeswar Sahariah (2014)
* J. S. Titiyal (2014)
* Om Prakash Upadhyaya (2014)
* Mahesh Verma (2014)
* Manjula Anagani (2015)
* Yogesh Kumar Chawla (2015)
* Bimola Kumari (2015)
* Randeep Guleria (2015)
* K. P. Haridas (2015)
* Rajesh Kotecha (2015)
* Alka Kriplani (2015)
* Harsh Kumar (2015)
* Dattatreyudu Nori (2015)
* Tejas Patel (2015)
* Raghu Ram Pillarisetti (2015)
* Narendra Prasad (2015)
* Saumitra Rawat (2015)
* Yog Raj Sharma (2015)
* Nikhil Tandon (2015)
* Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi (2015)
* Gopi Chand Mannam (2016)
* Praveen Chandra (2016)
* John Ebnezar (2016)
* Daljeet Singh Gambhir (2016)
* A. G. K. Gokhale (2016)
* Murli Manohar Joshi (2016)
* Ravi Kant (2016)
* Shiv Narain Kureel (2016)
* T. K. Lahiri (2016)
* Anil Kumari Malhotra (2016)
* Yarlagadda Nayudamma (2016)
* Sudhir V. Shah (2016)
* Ram Harsh Singh (2016)
* M. V. Padma Srivastava (2016)
* T. S. Chandrasekar (2016)
* Harkishan Singh (2017)
* Suniti Solomon (2017)
* Bhakti Yadav (2017)
* Abhay and Rani Bang (2018)
* Yeshi Dhonden (2018)
* Lakshmikutty (2018)
* M. R. Rajagopal (2018)
* Sanduk Ruit (2018)
* Ilias Ali (2019)
* Omesh Kumar Bharti (2019)
* Mammen Chandy (2019)
* Sudam Kate (2019)
* Ravindra and Smita Kolhe (2019)
* Jagat Ram (2019)
* Ramaswami Venkataswami (2019)

2020s|

* Yogi Aereon (2020)
* Padma Bandopadhyay (2020)
* Sushovan Banerjee (2020)
* Digambar Behera (2020)
* Leela Joshi (2020)
* Arunoday Mondal (2020)
* Shanti Roy (2020)
* Gurdip Singh (2020)
* Sandra Desa Souza (2020)
* Kushal Konwar Sarma (2020)
* Ravi Kannan R (2020)
* Krishna Mohan Pathi (2021)
* Jitendra Nath Pande (2021)
* Himmatrao Bawaskar (2022)
* Prokar Dasgupta (2022)
* Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao (2022)
* Lata Desai (2022)
* Vijaykumar Vinayak Dongre (2022)
* Dr Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) (2022)
* Veeraswamy Seshiah (2022)
* Bhimsen Singhal (2022)
* Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) (2022)
* Kamlakar Tripathi (2022)
* Munishwar Chandar Dawar (2023)
* Ratan Chandra Kar (2023)
* Nalini Parthasarathi (2023)
* Hanumantha Rao Pasupuleti (2023)
* Manoranjan Sahu (2023)
* Gopalsamy Veluchamy (2023)
* Ishwar Chander Verma (2023)

Authority control databases: Academics |

* Google Scholar

|

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template