October Summit 2019

October Summit is the annual series of workshops and consultations held in honour of the birth anniversary of our founder, Dr. G. Venkataswamy. These events are held to deliberate the real issues relating to effective eye care programmes and services and to find innovative solutions through sharing experiences and mutual consultation.

October Summit 2019 (thirteenth annual series)

	Enhancing Eye Care Through Effective Mentoring September 27 - 29, 2019

	Developing an Effective Workforce: Allied Ophthalmic Personnel September 30 & Octomber 1, 2019

	Companies as Market Drivers Octomber 2 - 3, 2019

Looking Back...

October Summit 2018 Eye care and environmental impact Eye Care Beyond 2020 Breakthrough Series Launch: Workshop	October Summit 2017 Workshop on Architectural Design of Eye Hospital Workshop on Compliance/Surgery acceptance rate	October Summit 2016 Practicing Responsible Medicine Priorities in paediatric eye care delivery, intervention models and research USAID Partners meet Review draft preferred practices and gender initiatives (Continuation of USAID partners meet )
October Summit 2015 Leveraging Vision Centres for Universal Eye Health and Strengthening Tertiary Care Managing Network of Eye Care Facilities Aravind Alumni Meet Symposium on Orthoptics d.e.c.o.d.e.d 5th Annual conference of the Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine (SMRM)	October Summit 2014 Towards Safer Eye Care Patients' Pulse Paradigms for effective Leadership Clinical Proteomics District Planning 2.0	October Summit 2013 Enhancing Cataract Outcomes through Continuous Monitoring & Benchmarking Towards Better Patient Compliance - A Workshop Universal Coverage through Primary Eye Care Rejuvenation through Innovation (Workshop for AECS) Workshop on Biomedical Informatics
October Summit 2012 Universal Coverage: Strengthening the Eye Care Health System Eye Care Collaborative for Improving Hospital Performance – Learning Session 1 Workshop on Developing Research Capabilities and Assessing Research Priorities in Glaucoma (INDIA)	October Summit 2011 Defining Eye Care Research Priorities for India Workshop on Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Ocular and Systemic Pathogens Patient Safety Workshop	October Summit 2010 Research Priorities for VISION 2020 Private Practice in Ophthalmology Evidence Based Management Practices
October Summit 2009 Review of National Plans - S.E Asia Creating an Enabling Environment Influencing Sustainable Change Patient Empowerment	October Summit 2008 Eye Excel - Training Excellence Sustainability in Eye Care Advocacy in Eye Care	October Summit 2007 Training of Trainers Benchmarking in Eye Care Reaching the Unreached