Prof. Dr. S. Natarajan

Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital

Sundaram Natarajan(Chairman and Managing Director, Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital) is an Indian Ophthalmologist. He was born on 4th September, 1957 in Madurai Tamil Nadu. Natarajan is graduated from the Madras Medical College, Chennai, 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 Netralaya 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.

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.

SPECIALIZATION

       Vitreo-Retinal surgery Ophthalmology

AWARDED

       Padma Shri by The President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee in 2013