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Engaging presentations were
delivered by Tithi Bhakta, Manali Sikder,
Sujit Shah, Priya Dutta, Dipanwita Ghosh,
Roshni Sengupta and Hardeep Kaur. They
also judged the intercollege scientific
paper, poster and model competitions
by the students.
Workshops were conducted on low
vision by Dr Deepak Kumar Bagga with
Dr Subhashish Chowdhury and his team
at Soham Eye Clinic, and on scleral
contact lenses by Gagan Sahni and his
team. Going by the feedback, both were
of immense value.
A quiz was also a major highlight.
Conducted by team VisionOpolis, it
A session on Clinical Research opportunities engaged the participants throughout. There
for optometrists and Artificial Intelligence by were also lots of exciting prizes. Also of note
Dr Sabyasachi Sengupta, founder of Sengupta’s was the Alumni Meet moderated by Runa
Research Academy, was particularly noteworthy Mazumder, assistant professor, VCOVS.
and would no doubt inspire students to take up
research in the course of their career. KOS”24 concluded with prizes distributed
to the winners of the paper, poster and
Dr Anuradha Narayanan, principal of Elite model competitions and a vote of thanks by
School of Optometry, Sankara Nethralaya, the VCOVS organising committee.
Chennai, emphasised on the perspective of
patients in health care, a very significant insight The hugely successful event had the
on the quality of life of patients with different support of Zeiss, Essilor, GKB Vision RX, and
optical interventions. Hoya, among other noted companies.
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