 Arvind is a Founder, Trustee, and Chair of Vision 4 Children, and is a Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmic Surgeon at Alder Hey Children's Foundation NHS Trust. He qualified as a doctor in New Delhi, India, trained in ophthalmology and subsequently in paediatric ophthalmology in the UK and USA.
He was appointed to Alder Hey in 1992 to lead the development of children's eye services at the hospital. Over the years he has developed a commitment to improving children's eye care services in Liverpool. The experience gained at Alder Hey has led to many opportunities to carry out similar work in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, China, Sudan, Tanzania, Ghana, and Saudi Arabia through other sight saving organistaions.
Arvind qualified from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and came to UK in 1979 to specialise in ophthalmology. His training took him through Charing Cross Hospital, London; Central Middlesex Hospital, London (Neurosurgery); Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Bristol Eye Hospital, Bristol University (M.D.) and finally to Miami (Bascom Palmer Eye Institute) and San Francisco (Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute) for fellowship training (9 months) in paediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus.
In 1992 he was appointed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital to lead the development of new and unique paediatric eye services in the hospital and the community. From a small dedicated unit the paediatric ophthalmology department has grown into a well established comprehensive service with significant components of research and teaching and training of overseas fellows.
He is an active member of the College and has held positions of Clinical Lead, College Tutor (reappointed) and has served on committees for the College and the NHS. He is an Affiliate Senior Vision Scientist at San Francisco and Honorary Professor at King Edward Medical University Lahore. He considers himself to be privileged to have been taught by some of the finest minds in medicine and ophthalmology, who gave freely of their time and knowledge. He founded Eyelearn as one of the ways he hopes to be able to give back what he received. He is passionate about my work and believe that teaching and training are important aspects of his work.
|
