Dr. Purnima Sahni Sood

WORK EXPERIENCE

PRESENTLY WORKING AS:

• Senior consultant Vitreo Retina, MM Eyetech Institute, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi since 2006.
• Associate Director, Ophthalmology, Jaypee Hospital, Noida.
• Senior Retina Consultant at Max Hospital, Gurgaon.

PRVIOUSLY WORKED AS:

• Centre for sight, safdarjung enclave, working with the Retina management group.
• Worked at Retina Institute of Karnataka, Bangalore wef July 2004 to March 2005.
• Underwent Vitreo-retina fellowship in Retina Institute of Karnataka, Bangalore, awarded by Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences.
• Worked as a Consultant at Vittala Institute of Ophthalmology & Prabha Eye Clinic, Bangalore.
• Worked as Senior Resident ( Registrar ) in the Department of Opthalmology, Dr. R.P. Govt. Medical College, Tanda at Dharamshala,H.P. for 4 years from 3-2-1999 to 13-2-2003.
• Worked for 6 months as Eye Specialist in Lok Kalyan Samiti, a charitable Eye Hospital, New Delhi.
• Worked as Medical Officer in Punjab State Medical Services for one year.

RESEARCH/ PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

• Instruction course at the All India Ophthalmological Society in 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 on Optical Coherence Tomography for General Ophthalmologists.
• Lecture on OCT in retinal diseases at Max Ophthal conference in July 2018.
• Presented a paper at North Zone Opthalmological Society conference at Shimla in Sep. 1995 titled- ” USE OF COLLAGEN CORNEAL SHIELDS FOR RECURRENT CORNEAL EROSIONS”.
• Contributed a chapter as co-author- “MACULA- IDIOPATHIC SENILE MACULAR HOLE, AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION AND MACULAR PUCKER”, in the book ‘ Current Opthalmology’ ed. Dr. Gill.
• Topic for research in thesis work was ” FUNDUS FLUORESCEIN ANGIOSCOPY IN PATIENTS WITH UVEITIS”.
• Publication in an international indexed journal “Ophthalmic Epidemiology” in May 2003, titled ‘Seasonal Epidemic of Caterpillar hair injury in Kangra District, India’.
• Presented a lecture on Diabetic Retinopathy in a training course of general physicians organized by The University of Newcastle, Australia and TUNNDA in April 2004.
• Paper presentation at KOS Annual State Conference at Belgaum in Nov. 2003: Autofluoresence in Macular Diseases.
• Paper presentation at KOS Annual State Conference at Bellary in Nov. 2004: Treatment of Choroidal neovascular membrane in pathologic myopia.
• Papers presented at Retina meets of KOS —
  i) FEVR –a case presentation.
  ii) Retinochoroidal anastomosis.
  iii) Post-inflammatory CNVM.
  iv) Choroidal hemangioma.
  v) Choroidal secondaries.
• Lecture on Endophthalmitis at medical college, Meerut in 2005.
• Presentation at IIRSI, national conference as invited faculty, in 2012 and 2013, on posterior segment effects of cataract surgery.
• Presentation at Delhi Ophthalmological Society (DOS) 2014 annual conference, as faculty, on ” Effect of intravitreal AntiVEGF’s on Tractional retinal detachment “
• Presentation at annual conference of Vitreo retinal society of India ( VRSI ) 2014 – ” ? RAP, ? macroaneurysm, ? BRVO, ? AMD, ? PCV, ? new entity “.
• Instruction course at All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS), annual conference in Feb 2105 – on Diabetic Retinopathy.