Dr Prem Nandhini Satgunam
Vision Scientist, LVPEI, Hyderabad, Telangana.
Dr. Prem Nandhini Satgunam is a distinguished vision scientist and clinician specializing in pediatric and binocular vision. She completed her bachelor’s in optometry at the Elite School of Optometry, Sankara Nethralaya, earning the Best Outgoing Student award. She holds an MS and PhD in Vision Science from The Ohio State University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in vision rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School’s Schepens Eye Research Institute. Currently, Dr. Satgunam is a Scientist at the Brien Holden Institute of Optometry and Vision Sciences, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad. Her research focuses on innovative visual function assessments for children with special needs, including the development of the Pediatric Perimeter to measure visual fields in infants and children with developmental challenges. She has received notable awards such as the Minnie Flaura Turner Memorial Award and the ARVO Foundation’s Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award in 2022. She is also recognized as a Notable Centennial Alumna of Ohio State University College of Optometry.