Teaching:
Current Commitments
¨ Training and supervision of Retinal Fellow, Ophthalmology Specialist Registrars and Senior House
Officers attached to my firm.
¨ Lectures for F2 trainee doctors – Wirral Hospitals, 2006 onwards.
¨ Organization and delivery of Ophthalmology component of MRCP PACES course, Wirral Hospital, 2004 onwards.
¨ Faculty on Surgical skills training course (wetlab): Basic Suturing Techniques, ESCRS Berlin 2008 (S Prasad, S Bhattacharjee, K Miykek) and Barcelona 2009 (L Benjamin, S Prasad, S Bhattacharjee).
¨ Instructor – Comprehensive strategy for the management of Posterior capsular Rent (With or without vitreous loss) by the anterior segment surgeon. AAO annual Congress 2009 San Francisco and Chicago 2010 (Basak S, Chakrabarti A, Prasad S, Tija K, Little B, Miller K)
¨ Instructor – Phaco Techniques and Complications instruction course conducted ESCRS 2008 – Berlin (B Little, M Packer, R Packard, S Prasad) and 2009 Barcelona (L. Benjamin B. Little M. Packer J. Haysenyager-Smith S. Prasad)
¨ Instructor - A video bouquet of phaco complications which should never have occurred: With tips on damage control and prevention to optimize postoperative outcome (A. Chakrabarti K. Tija B. Little S. Prasad A. Vasavada S. Bhattacharjee) – instruction course conducted ESCRS 2009.
¨ Lead instructor – Scleral Fixation Techniques (S Prasad, D Spalton, G Scharioth, A Agarwal, S Bhattacharjee) – instruction course conducted ESCRS Barcelona 2009.
¨ Instructor – Editing: The key to successful ophthalmic videos ( S Bhattacharjee, S Prasad, A Paul) instruction course conducted ESCRS 2009.
¨ Instructor – Subluxated IOLs: Relocation Techniques (S Bhattacharjee, R H Osher, I K Ahmed, R S Hoffman, B E Malyugin, A Chakrabarti, S Prasad), instruction course conducted at the annual congress of ASCRS 2009 and ASCRS 2010.
¨ Instructor – Phacoemulsification in eyes with coexisting vitreoretinal pathologies instruction course conducted at the Annual congress of AAO 2009 San Francisco (Chakrabarti A, Hill W, Miller K, Masket S, Vasavada A, Tityal J, Nichamin ‘Skip’) & Annual Congress of ASCRS 2009 (M Chakrabarti, A Chakrabarti, S Maskett, K M Miller, B E Malyugin, W E Hill, S Prasad).
¨ Instructor: Capsule Tension ring Masterclass (B Little, S Prasad), AAO annual congress 2009 San Francisco, ASCRS Annual Congress 2009 San Francisco, ASCRS Annual congress Boston 2010, ASCRS Annual Congress Chicago 2008 and ESCRS Berlin 2008 & ESCRS Barcelona 2009.
¨ Faculty on Royal College of Ophthalmologists Advanced phaco microsurgical skills course (S Prasad, M Watts) – February 2008 onwards.
¨ Faculty on the Royal College of Ophthalmologists microsurgical skills course, 2005 onwards.
¨ Lead instructor for course “Anterior vitrectomy techniques for the cataract surgeon” at ESCRS 2006 – London (S Prasad, B Little, R Osher, U Devgan), 2007 - Stockholm (S Prasad, B Little, R Osher), 2008 – Berlin (S Prasad, B Little, R Osher) & 2009- Barcelona (S Prasad, B Little, R Osher).
¨ Faculty on ‘Phaco: Management of Complications’ Surgical skills wetlab at ESCRS1 2006 – London (B Little, S Prasad, U Devgan), 2007 –Stockholm (B little, S Prasad, R Packard, M Packer), & 2008 – Berlin ( B Little, S Prasad, C Woon) & 2009 Barcelona (B Little, S Prasad, L Benjamin, C Woon).
¨ Senior Instructor - Extreme Retina - (Prasad S, Nagpal M, Kamath GG) Instruction Course at All India Ophthalmology Society Annual Congress - Kolkata, India January 2010.
¨ Instructor - Oscars calling - (Chief Instructor Biswas A, Co-Instructors Basak SK, Paul A, Bhattacharjee S, Biswas A, Biswas P ) Instruction Course at All India Ophthalmology Society Annual Congress - Kolkata, India, January 2010.
¨ Instructor - Video Bouquet of phaco pearls for optimal outcomes - (Chief Instructor Chakrabarti A, Co-instructors Shah Y, Styamurthy, Bhattacharjee S, Saikumar SJ, Sundaramurthy SK, Venkatesh ) Instruction Course at All India Ophthalmology Society Annual Congress - Kolkata, India, January 2010.¨
¨ Instructor - PC rent - no longer a nightmare - A systematic approach to manage PC rent during cataract surgery. (Chief Instructor Sathyamurthy KV, Co-Instructors Haldiprkar S, Chakrabarti A, rao SK, Guruprasad, Saikumar SJ, Bhattacharjee S ) Instruction Course at All India Ophthalmology Society Annual Congress - Kolkata, India, January 2010.
¨ Instructor - Sutureless Vitrectomy: gauging the outcome (Chief Instructor M Nagpal, Co-Instructor Muralidhar NS) Instruction Course at All India Ophthalmology Society Annual Congress - Kolkata, India, January 2010.
¨ Senior Instructor - Management of Severe Ocular Trauma for the Anterior Segment Surgeon (S Prasad, R A Scott, A Mearza) ASCRS Annual congress, Boston 2010.
Teaching – Past commitments
¨ Senior Instructor: Iris Reconstruction Strategies (S Prasad, S Srinivasan, V Rasch) – course conducted at the Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2008, Atlanta, USA and 2007, New Orleans, USA. ¨ Faculty on course “Capsular Tension Rings” (B Little, C Liu, S Prasad) at ESCRS Stockholm 2007.
¨ Senior Instructor – ‘Extreme Retina’ (S Prasad, M Nagpal, M Chakraborty) – course conducted at Eyeinfo 2008, Annual Congress of The All India Ophthalmology Society, Banglore, India, 2008
¨ Co-Instructor – Show your work – Make your own videos! ( S Bhattacharjee, S Basak, A Chakraborty, M Chakraborty, B Raju, S Prasad, M Biswas) - course conducted at Eyeinfo 2008, Annual Congress of The All India Ophthalmology Society, Banglore, India, 2008 
¨ Senior Instructor: Video and Basic Animation: A Do-It-Yourself Approach (S Prasad, P Sullivan, M Nagpal) – course conducted at the Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2007, New-Orleans, USA.
¨ Senior Instructor: Editing Surgical Videos for Presentation – course conducted at the Annual Meeting of The American Academy of Ophthalmology, October 2005, Chicago, USA.
¨ Working party member of The Diploma in Medical Informatics course of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh – first course commenced October 2000. Module coordinator for Module 3 on the course (2000-2005).
¨ Faculty on ‘Measuring for success’ Biometry workshop, Drayton House Clinic, April & July 2003.
¨ Teaching and organisation of ophthalmology teaching programme for B.Med.Sci Orthoptics course at The University of Sheffield (1999-2001).
¨ Teaching and organisation of ophthalmology teaching programme for level 5 and level 3 medical students at The University of Sheffield (1999-2001).
¨ Teaching on Information Technology courses organized by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
¨ Lectures on the M.Med.Sci / Postgraduate Diploma in Orthoptics (Distance Learning) Course – Sheffield (1999-2001). ¨ Lectures to Dental students, Casualty officers and Opticians, Sheffield (1999-2001).
¨ Examiner on the Windsor Final Fellowship revision course thrice (1995-1998).
¨ Faculty at the All India Ophthalmology Society Annual Congress - Cochin, India - January 1999.
¨ Faculty at the IOL and Refractive Surgery Convention - Cochin, India - January 1999.
¨ Surgical training of Senior House Officers, with special focus on teaching phacoemulsification during my tenure as a Fellow at Arrowe Park Hospital (1997-1999).
¨ Faculty at The East India Zonal Ophthalmology Congress - Calcutta, India - December 1996.
¨ Didactic and clinical teaching of SHO’s during my registrar post in Swindon (1995-1996).
¨ Training optometrists to screen for diabetic retinopathy, Wirral (1997-1999).