Faculty Detail - Department of Ophthalmology

He did his short term Orbit & Oculoplasty training from Moor Field Eye Hospital, London, Anterior Segment and Phaco training from AIIMS, and Eye Banking training from LVP Eye Hospital Hyderabad.

At presently, he is Vice President of Ocular Trauma Society of India, President AAO, Eye President DOS, North Zone Chairman Eye Bank Association of India, Management committee of All India Ophthalmology Society. Executive member Asia Pacific Society of Ocular Trauma and an active member of ASCRS. He is a life member of AIOS, DOS, SPOSI, NZOS, POS as well as EBAI.  

Dr Shakeen Singh has been honored as “Corneal Hero” 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 IGATES (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 150 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 a number of excellence awards including Annual Research Award by American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery for his pioneering work on endothelial keratoplasty, Pradeep Swarup Award by All India Ophthalmological Society, Developing Nations Grant by Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, Gold medal by Bombay Ophthalmological Society, Best of IJO 2024 Award by All India Ophthalmological Society and Young Achiever’s Award by North Zone Ophthalmological Society

Dr Prasher has over 200 presentations in various international, national and regional conferences. He has more than 70 publications in various journals of repute, and is an editorial member and reviewer in various international and national journals.  He has over 867 citations with h index of 15 and h10 index of 21. Dr Prasher has launched an innovative online educational platform/app (EyeDocPawanPrasher) dedicated to advancing ophthalmology education and providing valuable learning tools for medical students, ophthalmology residents, comprehensive ophthalmologists, optometry students and general public. His research interests include Corneal Transplantation, Ocular Surface Inflammations, Dry Eyes, Cataract, Ocular Pathology and Ophthalmic Genetics.