Gullapalli Nageswara Rao

Gullapalli Nageswara Rao
Born
Chodavaram, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India
OccupationOphthalmologist
Medical career
InstitutionsL V Prasad Eye Institute
AwardsPadma 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) and the founder of the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. 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. He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. He was elected in 2017 to the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame instituted by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

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