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DELEGATES AT KOS”24

The inauguration ceremony began with about the collaboration of VCOVS with OCI,
a welcome address by Dr Kushal Kumar IACLE and IVI respectively.
Choudhuri, president, VCOVS and by On a panel to discuss the future of the
Dr Debasish Kar, chairman, KOS”24. Present optometry profession and the way forward
were eminent personalities in ophthalmology were Prof Aditya Goyal; Amod Gogate,
and optometry like Dr Debasish Bhattacharyya, associate director, Training & Strategic
ex-president of the All India Ophthalmological Planning, PBMA’s H V Desai Eye Hospital &
Society, chairman and MD Disha Eye; Dr Eye Care Institute; Dr Nagraju Konda, assistant
Debashis Das, honorary secretary OSWB; Dr professor at the University of Hyderabad;
Umang Mathur, CEO, Dr Shroff’s Charitable Eye and other noted experts. The session was
Hospital; Prof Susanta Kumar Chakraborty, vice moderated by Jayanta Bhattacharyya.
chancellor, Vidyasagar University; Prof Aditya
Goyal, ophthalmic sciences representative
nominated by the Government of India on the TRADE
FAIR
National Commission of Allied and Healthcare
Professionals, and president on the board of
the Association of Schools and Colleges of
Optometry (ASCO) India; Lakshmi Shinde, CEO,
Optometry Council of India (OCI), executive
manager of Global Education for International
Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE);
and Vinod Daniel, CEO, India Vision Institute (IVI).

The keynote speeches were by Dr Umang
Mathur and Dr Deepak Kumar Bagga,
consultant optometrist at Meera and L.B.
Deshpande Centre for Sight Enhancement,
LVPEI. Lakshmi Shinde and Vinod Daniel spoke

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