Najiya Sundus K. Meethal

Senior Research Optometrist, I-Move project, Medical and Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India, Doctoral Research Student, Vestibular and Ocular Motor Research group, Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands

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Najiya Sundus K. Meethal (B.S., M.Phil.) has completed her Under graduation (B.S. optometry, 2012) and Post-graduation (M.Phil. in optometry, 2015) from Elite School of Optometry, Chennai. She has secured the institutional award for the Best outgoing student during the Bachelors as well as the Masters program along with the Luxottica Excellence Award for Research Methodology. Currently she is pursuing her doctoral studies at the Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and she is also a research associate at Medical Research Foundation, Chennai. Her doctoral research falls under an Indo-Dutch collaboration and is focused on evaluating eye movement behaviour and pupillary dynamics in neurodegenerative diseases. She has successfully transferred her scientific findings into peer-reviewed publications and has presented her work at various national and international scientific platforms. She is dynamically involved in providing academic guidance and supervision in clinical as well research activities of undergraduate and post graduate optometry students at the Elite School of Optometry (ESO) and the Sankara Nethralaya Academy (TSNA), Chennai. She has bagged a few prestigious awards during her career as a researcher and academician. The credits include Dr. Narasimhan memorial award (Medical Research Foundation) for the Best Research in Optometry (2017), The Young clinical mentor award for the contribution towards optometric education and teaching in Elite School of Optometry, Chennai (2019), and The Ruby Banik award for the best research in clinical ophthalmology instituted by Vision Research Foundation, Chennai (2020).

  1. Articles 27 Jul 2021 13 min read

    Astigmatism - The clinical pearls in Refractive care

    Preface: Astigmatism is a common type of refractive error that we come across in vision clinics on a regular basis. It causes the deterioration of retinal image quality and leads to specific vision-related symptoms. Prevalence of this condition is reported to vary with age, gender, and ethnicity. The clinical diagnosis and management of astigmatism necessitate an understanding of its nature and characteristics. Hence, this particular write-up is prepared as a consolidation of integrated information related to ‘astigmatism’ by focusing on its definition, classic types, relevant clinical evaluation components, and appropriate management options. What is astigmatism? Astigmatism is a type of refractive error/ametropia that occurs when parallel rays of light entering the ocular media (non-accommodative state) are not focused well on the retina. In an optical system with astigmatic error, light rays propagate in two different planes and the incident light rays fail to converge at a single f

    Najiya Sundus K. Meethal · Dr. Krishna Kumar Ramani
  2. Articles 20 Jul 2021 7 min read

    Zotero: A Quick Start Guide

    Tracking, collecting, organizing, reading, and assimilating the relevant references is an integral process of any scientific research. But this process is laborious when done manually. Hence was the development of reference management softwares (Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, etc.) for the digitalization of relevant scholarly materials and facilitating the process of managing references. Reference managers provide an efficient way to the scientific authors (a) to track, collect and organize several reference materials. They also provide (b) virtual library with unlimited storage for reference materials with backup, (c) aid in easy management of the process of citation and automatic insertion of a reference/bibliography list in the required formatting style as well as (d) to create and collaborate with multiple libraries/groups. This particular chapter is prepared to give you an overview of the specific features and a quick start guide to use a popular reference manager ‘The Zotero’. What i

    Najiya Sundus K. Meethal · Deepmala Mazumdar
  3. Students Gallery 13 Apr 2021 7 min read

    Mendeley Reference Manager: A Step-by-step Guide

    Reference managers (such as Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote) are applications that help scientific writers to search, store and organize literature. Additionally, these platforms allow to systematically insert citations and references in any chosen style while writing manuscripts. These tools allow changing reference style with a few clicks. Reference managers are tools made aiming at academicians and authors of scientific writing. This comes in handy for students for writing thesis and assignments. Writing scholarly papers in any discipline requires the citation of relevant literature. Managing references, in-text citations, and integrating these in the suggested format is a tedious process, especially when done manually. Digital storing of scholarly publications has been available for more than 25 years. In the past 10 years, the ‘Reference Managers’ have become an indispensable part of the scientific writers. Amongst others ‘Mendeley’ is an open reference manager which allows easy storing

    Deepmala Mazumdar · Najiya Sundus K. Meethal