Surgery in Thyroid Eye Disease (PDF)

Dr. Suryasnata Rath is currently Head of the Mithu Tulsi Chanrai (MTC) campus of L V Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, and of the Ophthalmic Plastics, Orbit and Oncology Services at MTC. Following his basic medical training in Odisha, he completed long-term fellowships (2001-3 & 2005-6) at the LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad before joining the faculty there in July 2006.



He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (FRCS), Glasgow in 2004. Since his training in oculoplastics with Peter Dolman at the University of British Columbia, Canada in 2011-12, he has developed a keen interest in thyroid eye disease and endonasal lacrimal surgery. Suryasnat is the principal investigator of several ongoing projects, including a multi-center randomized trial on orbital radiotherapy in thyroid eye disease and a DBT-funded project to explore the role of infection in ocular adnexal lymphoma. Suryasnat recently stepped into the realm of innovation as arecipient of the BIRAC-BIG grant to develop a device for the minimally invasive treatment of chronic dacryocystitis. He has written 42 peer-reviewed, indexed publications and several chapters on non-endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy.






Dr Milind N, Naik completed his post-graduate training in ophthalmology at the Christian Medical College, Vellore. In 2001, he became a fellow in ophthalmic plastic surgery at LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. He completed his orbit-ofacial plastic surgery fellowship at the Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles in 2006-07. His areas of interest include thyroid eye disease, aesthetic orbito-facial surgery, and minimally invasive ophthalmic plastic surgery.




He received the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Senior Achievement Award in 2015 and is a member of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS). He served as the Vice President of the Asia