Dr Gullapalli N Rao, Founder-Chairman of L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), was honoured by with the prestigious ‘Bernardo Streiff Gold Medal’ at the opening ceremony of World Ophthalmology Congress organised by International Council of Ophthalmology in Berlin, Germany.
A LVPEI release said in Hyderabad on Saturday that Bernardo Streiff Gold Medal is awarded by election every four years by the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis at the World Ophthalmology Congress “to an ophthalmologist who has contributed most through history, ethics and education, to the advancement of ophthalmology”.
Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis is a 60-member body of the top academicians in the world in the field of ophthalmology and Dr. Rao is the only second Indian to be a member of this group after his teacher late Prof. L. P. Agarwal, former Director of All India Institute Medical Sciences.
