Prof. Dr Javed Ali

Mohammad Javed Ali is an internationally recognized oculoplastic surgeon specializing in state of art lacrimal surgeries and is a leader in advances of the lacrimal drainage sciences. He currently heads the Govindram Seksaria Institute of Dacryology at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, India. Javed is also the Distinguished Alumni Chair of Ophthalmology at the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute and the current Editor-in-Chief of Seminar in Ophthalmology. He holds international Professorships at the National University of Singapore, University of Shanghai, Krasnov Research Institute in Russia, and at WIM, Warsaw.

He completed his basic medical education and MS Ophthalmology from NTR University of Health Sciences, Hyderabad. He obtained his fellowship of Royal College of General Practitioners (FRCGP), UK in 2003 and fellowship of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (FRCS) in 2008. He also completed his fellowship in Orbital Surgery in 2008, followed by a second fellowship in Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery and Ocular Oncology and Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery in 2010. He later trained in Rhinology with World leader Peter-John Wormald from Australia.

Javed is one among the rare recipients of The Experienced Researcher – Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship Award, one of the respected awards in the Research World. He completed his working PhD on ‘glycobiology of lacrimal drainage system’ in 2018 from University of Hyderabad. He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and is a JC Bose Fellow, the highest scientific award by the Government of India. He was honored by the ‘2020 American Academy of Ophthalmology Lester T Jones Award’ for significant scientific contributions to science of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery. He also received Dr P Siva Reddy Gold Medal in Ophthalmology, Dr Pathak Medal in Ophthalmology, Mazher Foundation Award for outstanding academic performance, Vengal Rao Medal, Raghavachary medal, Ranga Reddy Endowment award, Honavar award and Sunayna Medal.

He described three new diseases of the lacrimal system along with their classifications and clinicopathologic profiles. He was honored by “Healthcare Leadership Award’ for his research and innovations in Dacryology and received the ‘2015 ASOPRS Merrill Reeh Award’ for his path-breaking work on etiopathogenesis of punctal stenosis. His textbook “Principles and Practice of Lacrimal Surgery” is the most comprehensive treatise on the subject and his other treatise ‘Atlas of Lacrimal Drainage Disorders’, is the first of its kind.

Other than Editor-in-Chief, he holds additional positions as ‘associate editor’, ‘assistant editor’ and ‘section editor’ on boards of 22 mainstream journals and a reviewer for 35+ major journals. For his contributions to science, he has been honoured by ophthalmic societies in Philippines, and Poland with honorary life memberships.

His areas of research are molecular pathogenesis of primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction, molecular anatomy of the lacrimal drainage pathways, and minimally invasive endoscopic lacrimal surgeries.
He has to his credit 608 publications at the time of this writing and has delivered 368 conference lectures including 21 keynote addresses. He has conducted 28 instruction courses and 34 live surgical workshops and has been honoured with 41 national and international awards. At the time of this writing his h-index was 41, i-10 index – 190, and citations were 6464.