Sundaram Natarajan

Education Natarajan graduated from the Madras Medical College in 1980. He completed his Diploma in Ophthalmology (D.O) at the University of Madras in 1984 and Fellowship in Retina and Vitreous Surgery (F.R.V.S) at Sankara Nethralaya in 1985.

He completed Fellow of All India Collegium of Ophthalmology (FAICO) in 2012, Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (FRCS) in Glasgow in 2018, and Fellow of European Latino American Society of Ophthalmology (FELAS) in 2019.

Dr.Natarajan with Deputy Chief Minister Mr. R.R.Patil and Mr. Hyosuke Yasui, Consul General of Japan in Mumbai, Feb, 2006 Awards and records He was awarded Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian awards, by President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee in 2013.

He holds a former Guinness World Record for the most diabetic eye screenings in 8 hours. This record was achieved when 649 diabetes patients were screened in Dharavi, Mumbai.

He is a "Character Inductee" of the Retina Hall of Fame, being one of two Indians listed in 2017.

He was awarded a State Award for Meritorious Service by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir for creating a record by performing forty-seven vitreoretinal surgeries in two and a half days while in Jammu and Kashmir.

He holds a National Record in the Limca Book of Records for performing the first completely sutureless sclera bucking as well as a sutureless 23G vitrectomy.

Organizational awards

Current academic positions President - Organized Medicine Academic Guild (OMAG) Managing Trustee - Aditya Jyot Foundation for Twinkling Little Eyes Managing Trustee - Aditya Jyot Research Foundation Secretary - Aditya Jyot Eye Research Institute Chairman - All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) Nationwide DR Screening Task Force Chairman of the International Committee - All India Ophthalmological Society Secretary General - Global Eye Genetics Consortium (GEGC) Immediate Past President - International Ocular Trauma Society Immediate Past President - Ocular Trauma Society of India (OTSI) Representative of AIOS ICO General Assembly ICO Board of Trustees International Council of Ophthalmology President - Asia Pacific Ophthalmic Trauma Society (APOTS) Member - Euretina International Advisory Board Hon. President - Sankara Nethralaya Alumni Association Regional Managing Editor - Eye World Asia Pacific, Indian Edition Honorary Director - Indian Eye Injury Registry Member - Council of Asia Pacific Intraocular Implant Association, Singapore Executive committee member - International Society of Ocular Trauma Hon. Secretary, Alumni Association- Sankara Nethralaya Vice President - Indo-Japanese Ophthalmic Foundation Patron - National Society for Prevention of Blindness, Mumbai Branch