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Small-incision cataract surgery innovator receives international award
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WAILEA, Hawaii — Ghanta Madhavi, MD, recipient of the Hawaiian Eye Foundation's International Award, developed a 2.5-minute temporal manual small-incision cataract surgery technique to reduce the backlog of the world's cataract blindness. She presented her technique here and discussed her "utmost priority" to cure childhood blindness.
The technique uses a minimal amount of instrumentation and is a low-cost alternative to phacoemulsification. With a good support team, Dr. Madhavi and her group can perform 200 temporal small-incision cataract surgery procedures with IOL implantation in 1 day. Dr. Madhavi, of India, travels worldwide to educate colleagues on her technique. It is her belief that through the education of her colleagues that the technique can reduce the backlog of patients with cataract blindness.
"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had, what type of car I drove," Dr. Madhavi said. "But the world may be a little better because we are important in the life of somebody, some child. They live longer and improve society."
At the conclusion of her presentation, Dr. Madhavi received a standing ovation from the audience of the Hawaiian Eye 2009 meeting.
Since its creation, the Hawaiian Eye Foundation's International Award for Excellence has been sponsored by EagleVision.