Faculty Detail - Department of Ophthalmology

He did short term training from Moor Field Eye Hospital, London, Anterior Segment and  Phaco training  from AIIMS, and Eye Banking training from LVP Eye Hospital Hyderabad. Presently, he is President of Punjab Ophthalmology Society,  Joint Secretary of Ocular Trauma Society of India,  North Zone Representative of Eye Bank Association of India, Executive member Asia Pacific Society of Ocular Trauma, and an active member of ASORC. He is a life member of  AIOS, DOS, SPOSI, NZOS, POS as well as EBAI.  

Dr Shakeen has been honored by Punjab Government twice for contribution towards ‘Bilateral Blindness Eradication mission’ in the State. He has been invited faculty with American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery for many years,  and has represented the AIOS team to Egyptian Society Ophthalmology at Cairo, Egypt. He was a part of  faculty at the International Society of Ocular Trauma at Rome, Italy and NIH, Singapore. He is a member of an  international study being conducted globally, ‘International Globe and Adnexal Trauma Epidemiology Study’.

He successfully organized a State Ophthalmology Conference and a National Ocular Trauma Conference at sgrduhs. He has presented more than 40 international as well as 100 National and Regional papers. Two of his Best Papers from POS have been nominated at AIOS meetings. He has been  Chairman/Co-Chairman /Moderator of more than 50 scientific sessions and has been a judge for AIOS/DOS/POS for several years. He has 30 peer reviewed publications.

He has been an active member of Quality Council of India. Did his NABH Assessor course in 2012 and  has conducted more than 40 inspections for NABH across India.

He joined as a faculty in sgrduhs in 2009 and is currently Professor of Ophthalmology. As the only Cornea fellowship trained Ophthalmologist in Amritsar, he was instrumental in restarting the corneal transplantation services at SGRD, especially in advanced lamellar keratoplasty techniques.

Dr Prasher has been a recipient of Annual Research Award from American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery for his pioneering work on endothelial keratoplasty. He was awarded Pradeep Swarup Award by All India Ophthalmological Society, Developing Nations Grant by Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, Winner of Archives of Ophthalmology quiz twice, Best Teaching Video Award by Indian Intraocular Lens and Refractive Surgery Society of India, Best Paper Award at Biennial Conference of Himachal Pradesh Ophthalmological Society and Young Achiever’s Award by North Zone Ophthalmological Society.

Dr Prasher has over 120 presentations in various international, national and regional conferences. He  has more than 45 publications, and is editorial member and  reviewer in various international and national journals .  He has over 560 citations with h index of 13 and h10 index of 16. His research interests include Corneal Transplantation, Ocular Surface Inflammations, Dry Eyes, Cataract, Ocular Pathology and Ophthalmic Genetics.