Yog Raj Sharma

Yog Raj Sharma is an Indian ophthalmologist and ex-chief of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, the apex body of the National Programme for the Control of Blindness, a Government of India initiative to reduce the prevalence of blindness in India. He is the Chairman of the Task Force on Prevention and Control of Diabetic Retinopathy Group and the Co-Chairman of the National Task Force on Prevention of Blindness from Retinopathy of Prematurity under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India. An advisor to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. Sharma was honored by the Government of India in 2015 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award. In 2005, Yog Raj Sharma's published article on "Pars plana vitrectomy vs scleral buckling in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment" in Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica and in November 2021, American society of retina specialists cited it as top 100 publications on retinal detachment management in the last ~121 years. Of these top hundred publications, only nineteen countries contributed, three of the contributing countries were Asian and from India this study was the sole contribution. Dr Sharma called it 'the singular biggest achievement of his career" in an article published in Daily Excelsior, Jammu in December 2021.

Biography Yog Raj Sharma was born in Jammu in the North Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, and did his early schooling at Government Sri Ranbir Model Higher Secondary School, Jammu. He graduated in medicine (MBBS Hons) from the University of Kolkata in 1974 and secured a master's degree (MS) from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER) Chandigarh in 1978 The next assignment was as a faculty member at the University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore of the World Health Organization. and holds a ResearchGate score of 34.86, putting him in the upper 8 percent of the online repository publications, and has contributed 46 chapters in books published by other authors. carries 2 chapters and four abstracts written by Sharma.

Sharma has presented papers at 229 national and international conferences

Positions and awards He is a life member of American Academy of Ophthalmology, All India Ophthalmological Society, Delhi Ophthalmological Society, National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, Ocular Trauma Society of India, Glaucoma Society of India and Vitreo-retinal society of India. carried his name in its 2002-13 editions.