Dr. Dhananjay Shukla

Senior Consultant and Director, Retina-Vitreous Service, Ratan Jyoti Netralaya

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Dhananjay Shukla completed his post-graduation in Ophthalmology at G.R. Medical College, Gwalior in 1994. He joined Aravind Eye Hospital and Postgraduate Institute, Madurai for a Fellowship in IOL and Anterior Segment Microsurgery in 1995; he subsequently completed another Fellowship in Retina-Vitreous Service at the same centre, and joined rank as Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology in 1998. He continued there, and served as a Professor of Ophthalmology & Consultant, Retina-Vitreous Service (2007- 2012). After a brief stint as Medical Director and Vitreoretinal consultant at Centre for Sight, Ludhiana (Sept 2012- April 2014), he is currently working at Ratan Jyoti Netralaya, Gwalior, as Consultant, Retina-Vitreous Service (May 2014 onwards). He has been the Section Editor, Retina at the Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Ophthalmology since June 2011. He has contributed more than 70 free papers, posters and video presentations, and more than 100 faculty lectures at national & international conferences. He has 88 publications (71 as 1st or corresponding author) in indexed, peer-reviewed journals, including N Engl J Med, Ophthalmology, Arch Ophthalmol, Am J Ophthalmol, Surv Ophthalmol, Br J Ophthalmol, RETINA, Indian J Ophthalmol, etc. He is a reviewer for 18 international journals including Ophthalmology, RETINA, Br J Ophthal, etc. He has authored 18 chapters in various textbooks, including one on Eales disease in RETINA (Ryan SJ, editor-in-chief), 5th ed., 2013, and the same for Ryans RETINA (Schachat AP, editor-in-chief), 6th ed. 2018 as well as 7th edition (Sadda S, editor-in-chief; in press). He was co-investigator in two multicenter randomized clinical trials of drugs Ozurdex and Macugen. He has featured in Marquis Whos Who in Medicine & Healthcare (2007), Whos Who in Asia (2007, 2012), Whos Who in the World (2009), and Whos Who in Medicine & Health Care (2009, 2011). His current areas of interest include surgical management of macular disorders, pediatric retinal diseases and retinal vasculitis. In sports, he won the Athletic Championship (1987-1989) & Tennis championship (1998-91) as a student at G.R. Medical College, Gwalior. As a distance runner now, he has completed 3 certified marathon (42.2km) races (Dec 11, 2016, Feb 25, 2018 and April 15, 2019), with finish times of 4:01:29, 3:24:04 & 3:49:04 hours respectively, the last being the famous Boston Marathon 2019, for which he qualified the previous year.

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