Faculty:Faculty of Health, Medicine and Social Care
School:School of Medicine
Location: Cambridge
Areas of Expertise: Vision and eye research
Research Supervision:Yes
Professor Raman has more than a decade's experience in performing vitreoretinal procedures for retinal diseases. He initiated one of the first comprehensive programme for screening for diabetic retinopathy in India, and is a pioneer in teleophthalmology in the country.
Along with team from Google, Professor Raman developed and validated automated retinopathy detection algorithm. He has published nearly 250 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals, covering several different aspects of retinal diseases but concentrating on various aspects of diabetic eye disease.
Professor Raman is a principal investigator in several clinical studies including population-based study SN DREAMS in India. He is frequently invited to national and international meetings, and is also a supervisor for postgraduate ophthalmologists and optometrists. His model of DR screening has been adopted by several institutes globally.
Rajiv has acted as supervisor to postgraduate ophthalmologists and optometrists.
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