MBBS MS (Ophthalmology)

Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist

Ocular pathology Uveitis Neuro-ophthalmology

Sankara Deva Netralaya, Guwahati, India

Dipankar Das, MBBS, MS (Ophthalmology) works at Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Guwahati, Assam, India as a senior consultant in the ocular pathology, uveitis & amp; neuro-ophthalmology services. After completion of his ophthalmology residency in Guwahati Medical College, Assam, he did a fellowship in general ophthalmology at Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya and another in ocular pathology at Sankara, Nethralaya, Chennai, under Dr Jyotirmay Biswas and Dr S. Krishnakumar. He also completed a fellowship in uvea at the same time under Dr Biswas in 2002. At the conference of the ophthalmological society of Assam (OSA), he had won the first Dr K R Dutta best scientific paper award in 2004 for ‘CMV Retinitis: First case report in northeast India’. In 2014, he received the best scientific poster award in the Uveitis Society of India annual conference in New Delhi, for his poster on ‘Parasitic Uveitis’. In 2015, he got the best scientific free paper award in ocular trauma society of India meet at Guwahati, India. At the 76th All India Ophthalmic Conference at Coimbatore-2018, his scientific paper was adjusted the best in Ocular Pathology Session. He had got many other awards as author and co-author for his scientific works. He had delivered first Smt. Puspa Das Memorial Oration at the 46th ophthalmic society of West Bengal (OSWB) meets 2015 on ‘Pathology of Retinoblastoma- Basics and Advanced’. He has over 70 peer-reviewed publications including textbooks chapters, more than 155 national & international presentations and is a member of several states and national level ophthalmology and pathology organizations. He had described a new rosette in the pathology of retinoblastoma (2014) and also reported that this particularly discovered rosette was associated with poor prognosis of retinoblastoma (2017). He had coined “Efferocytosis in retinoblastoma” for unique apoptotic changes in cancer biology and published in the journal of cancer therapy (2013). He had also a significant contribution to the pathology of ocular parasitic diseases. Moreover, being a reviewer of various ophthalmic journals and associate editor (Eye & Brain, Dove publications), Dr. Das is the reviewer of All India Ophthalmic conference (AIOC) Instruction course/free papers/ posters for the ophthalmic pathology & uvea section. In 2011, he did an observership in inflammation, uveitis and ophthalmic pathology at Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA under Prof. Narsing A Rao. Currently, he is the co-investigator of DBT/ICMR projects running in the institute. He has also been a vital part as principal investigator of ongoing multicenter international drug trials in uveitis and neuro-ophthalmology. Apart from active scientific research in basic and clinical ophthalmology, he has a keen interest in photography (macro and micro), poetry, painting, literature, theology and indoor/outdoor sports. Dr Das had published 4 books on English poetry, titled ‘Reminiscences - In silent couplets!’(2014), ‘Sparks of Joy’ (2016), ‘Firefly: On little wings’ (2017) and ‘Soul of Indigo’ (2018) from Partridge India (a Penguin Random House Company).