Sushmita Kaushik MS

Prof. Sushmita Kaushik completed her Ophthalmology training at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. She is currently a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Advanced Eye Centre PGIMER, Chandigarh, which she joined as a faculty since 2004.

Dr Kaushik specializes in Glaucoma with a special interest in childhood glaucoma, newer diagnostic tools and their clinical application, glaucoma surgery, and angle closure. She is the Founder and Secretary of the Indian Pediatric Glaucoma Society, Vice President of the Chandigarh Ophthalmological Society, former Secretary of the Glaucoma Society of India, and is in charge of the Teaching Programme at the PGIMER. She has 170 publications in reputed International and National Journals, has contributed 40 chapters to various Glaucoma Textbooks, and has authored the Glaucoma section of an OCT Atlas.

She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, notable being conferred Honorary FAICO by AIOS in 2021, Excellence in Glaucoma award by Woman Ophthalmologists Society, in 2021, awarded the Best Poster in Glaucoma at AIOS 2021, Best Paper in Glaucoma at the AIOS, 2020, Best paper award at the UK Pediatric Glaucoma Society, London, Jan 2020, Dr. DB Chandra Award for Best Glaucoma paper at the AIOS, 2008, Best Scientific Paper at the GSI 2004, and numerous Best Scientific awards at State and Zonal conferences down the years.