I have spent 35 years training surgeons, building AIOS's academic record, and standing with ophthalmologists in every corner of the country. I am asking for your blessings and support to take that service to the AIOS leadership.
Every position on this page is drawn from my actual record of service — not promises, but a body of work colleagues across India have already seen first-hand.
Member – Scientific Committee (2008–2014), Member – Managing Committee (2014–2017), and Editor, AIOS Proceedings (2017–2023) — three consecutive terms inside AIOS’s core committees.
View my full track recordI have personally trained over 500 ophthalmologists, and been a regular chief instructor and co-instructor at AIOS, ASCRS, ESCRS, AAO and APAO instruction courses for over two decades.
Read my full profileI am a life member of more than 25 state and national ophthalmic societies spanning Kerala to Assam, Rajasthan to Odisha — relationships I have built over decades, not a single election cycle.
See all my affiliations“I have served AIOS with commitment in the past, and I am committed to serve AIOS in the future too. Wherever you are — Kerala, Rajasthan, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, or anywhere across India — I look forward to your blessings and support.”
— Dr. Arup Chakrabarti
Recognised internationally by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (2011) and the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (2013).
I performed the first live demonstration of Manual Non-Phaco Small Incision Cataract Surgery in South India, 1994.
I edited “Cataract Surgery in the Diseased Eye” (Jaypee, 2013) and contributed to 10 book chapters in leading ophthalmology textbooks.
Honours I’ve received internationally and nationally between 1995 and 2015, including BPOS awards, orations, and gold medals.
10 book chapters, 2 edited textbooks, and 20+ posters I’ve presented at AIOS, AAO, ESCRS and ASCRS conferences.
41 free surgical teaching videos I’ve shared on YouTube, covering everything from rhexis pearls to complex vitrectomised cataracts.
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