Janakiraman

Highly motivated research and clinical optometrist, looking for a challenging, responsible, and secure position, where my skills would be put to maximum and optimum use for ample growth in my professional career. A career, driven by a dream of eliminating vision-related problems and blindness from our country India, and other countries with robustness in research. Organized, fast learner with strong communication, critical thinking and organizational skills.

A dependable professional capable of managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude and commitment to delivering quality patient care and contributing positively to the growth of the organization.

Sales & Application Specialist – Ophthalmic Diagnostics & Surgicals (Heidelberg Engineering, Moptim, Espansione – Eyelight, Roland, Oertli) - Toshbro Medicals Private Limited - Tamil Nadu, India

(2025-07)

• Provide clinical application support for ophthalmic diagnostic and surgical equipment across tertiary eye care centers.
• Train ophthalmologists and clinical teams on operation and clinical interpretation of advanced ophthalmic diagnostic technologies.
• Support implementation and integration of ophthalmic imaging systems within hospital clinical workflows.
• Assist clinicians in optimizing diagnostic protocols for retinal imaging, dry eye diagnostics, and anterior segment analysis.

Research Fellow – Uvea Department - Medical Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

(2023-08 - 2025-06)

• Conducted clinical research on uveitis and ocular inflammatory disorders.
• Contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications and book chapters in ophthalmology.
• Analyzed clinical and imaging datasets to evaluate outcomes in patients with ocular inflammatory disorders.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary research teams on study design, patient evaluation, and manuscript preparation.

Research Optometrist – Glaucoma Department - Medical Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

(2019-06 - 2021-09)

• Participated in Prospective glaucoma research initiatives involving clinical data collection and imaging analysis in Google LLC Glaucoma Project
• Evaluated multimodal ophthalmic diagnostic data including refractive parameters (Visuref), ocular biometric measurements (IOL Master), anterior and posterior segment OCT, OCT angiography (Cirrus HD-OCT 5000), and visual field assessments (Humphrey Visual Field) across multiple glaucoma subtypes using advanced ophthalmic diagnostic systems from ZEISS MedTech
• Primarily involved in collecting data across multiple glaucoma subtypes for further processing and preparation of datasets for artificial intelligence (AI) model development.
• Actively participated in the internal journal club (LOGIX), a forum where current research articles and advances in the field of optometry are discussed.
• Contributed to research documentation, data handling and scientific analysis for glaucoma-related studies.

Clinical Internship – Optometrist - Elite School of Optometry, Medical Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya - Chennai, India

• Completed comprehensive clinical training across cornea, glaucoma, retina, uvea, pediatric ophthalmology, and community ophthalmology.
• Performed refraction, slit lamp examination, tonometry, binocular vision assessment, and ocular motility evaluation.
• Participated in community vision screening programs and public health outreach initiatives (REACH project, ORBIS & Special Olympics)

Master of Optometry - Optometry - Elite School of Optometry – SASTRA University

Bachelor of Optometry - Optometry - Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University (BVDUMC)

Diploma in Optometry - Optometry - Christian Medical College (CMC)

Higher Secondary (12th) - Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School

SSLC (10th) - Holy Cross Matriculation Higher Secondary School