The Hyderabad Ophthalmic Association has over 1300 members – after the split in the Andhra Pradesh Society. Their Premier award is the Dr Narendra Swarup Oration and Medal and this year Dr Srinivas K Rao was honoured with the same. He delivered a lecture on “The Conundrum of Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking” nd this was well received. Dr Rao was one of the first in the country to perform this technique to stabilise Keratoconus and since 2009, has performed over 650 procedures at Darshan Eye Care and Surgical
Centre. The Oration for 2022 was delivered by Dr Uday Devgan from USA.