Dr. Akshay Gopinathan Nair

Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital and Advanced Eye Hospital and Institute, Mumbai,

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Dr. Akshay Gopinathan Nair is affiliated to Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital and Advanced Eye Hospital and Institute in Mumbai, where he specializes in Oculoplastic Surgery and Ocular Oncology. He is also a faculty member at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Mumbai. He completed his residency training at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai. Following this, he pursued a clinical fellowship in Oculoplastic Surgery and Ocular Oncology at L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad and also completed an ICO Fellowship at the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, USA. Dr. Nair is also a surgical simulation consultant for HelpMeSee Inc. He is a recipient of the International Ophthalmologist Education Award and the Achievement Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology as well as the Achievement Award from the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology. He has co-authored over 100 indexed peer-reviewed papers and 15 textbook chapters. He is one of the few Indians to be inducted as a member of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.

  1. Articles 2 Mar 2023 5 min read

    Top Ten Tips - Shaping and Sharpening a Clinical Survey

    Surveys are helpful in understanding trends in the management of disease, the changes in the way a disease is treated and also how different factors can affect the choices a clinician makes. But the best surveys are the ones that bring out new information on topics, questions or trends that may seem familiar. Here are a few ways on maximising the responses to your survey questions: 1. Brief honest introduction: Usually invitations to participate in surveys are shared through email, social media platforms like Facebook or WhatsApp. It is important to include a brief and crisp introduction about who the investigators are and what does the survey aim to do. Also mention if the survey is anonymous or not: i.e. whether it requires the respondents to identify themselves or not and how long would it approximately take to fill up the survey form and who should be taking this survey. For example: Hello, Greetings. Request all ophthalmology residents in India to take this survey on cataract surg

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  2. Interesting Reads 11 May 2021 8 min read

    Seven Points You Should Know about Mucormycosis

    What is Mucormycosis? Mucormycosis is a fungus that is ubiquitous. This organism is present in the soil and all around us and is also a commensal that is present in the nose and oropharynx. It is an opportunistic organism – this means that it invades and causes infection only when the host’s immune system is compromised. A normal healthy person’s immune system would easily be able to fight a fungal infection like mucormycosis. It invades the nose and the paranasal sinuses. It then gradually spreads to the neighboring structures which is the orbit-it then affects the extraocular muscles, the optic nerve and the orbital apex beyond which it then spreads intracranially involving the cavernous sinus, the leptomeninges, and the brain. This form of invasive mucormycosis which is the commonest clinical manifestation is called Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis (ROCM). Why are we seeing so much of it now? Typically one would come across fewer than a handful of cases of mucormycosis in an enti

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