Dr. Pradhan's Eye Care

Dr. Rajan Pradhan graduated from Madras Medical College which is one of the oldest and premier institutes not only in India but worldwide which opened in 1835.Then he completed his M.D. in Ophthalmology from India's number one medical institute, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, (AIIMS), New Delhi. He has also had further training in cataract surgery, phacoemulsification and corneal diseases from Wolfsen Medical Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Dr. Pradhan has worked in Darjeeling, Sikkim, Kathmandu and Siliguri in various capacities. In Darjeeling he was the District Program Manager under the National Program for Control of Blindness where he was instrumental in conducting enumerable free surgical eye camps for the underprivileged visually impaired patients. In Siliguri, he has worked in both the Lions eye hospitals and was instrumental in establishing their eye banks of which he was the hon. medical director.
He has also had a stint in teaching medical postgraduate residents as Asst. Professor at MGM medical college, Kishanganj.
Dr. Pradhan's jewel in the crown hour was when he was appointed the Vice President, clinical operations by The Hans Foundation to help establish a not-for-profit eye hospital in Haridwar. He oversaw it from the planning stage until it became operational. He contributed in performing up to seven thousand phaco surgeries for the poor blind patients of Uttarakhand and UP.
Dr. Pradhan's sub-speciality interests other than cataract are cornea, glaucoma, oculoplasty, eye trauma and community Ophthalmology.