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The L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) was established in 1987 at Hyderabad as a not-for-profit, non-government, public-spirited, comprehensive eye care institution. The Institute is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness and a Global Resource Centre for VISION 2020: The Right to Sight initiative. LVPEI has ten active arms to its areas of operations: Clinical Services, Education, Research, Vision Rehabilitation, Rural and Community Eye Health, Eye Banking, Advocacy and Policy Planning, Capacity Building, Innovation and Product Development.
The LVPEI pyramidal model of eye care delivery currently includes a Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad, 3 Tertiary Centres in Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada, 20 Secondary Centres, 4 City Centres and 206 Primary Care Vision Centres that cover the remotest rural areas in the four states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Karnataka. Its teaching eye hospital is an exemplar of high quality service provision through cross-subsidization between the paying and nonpaying patient categories.
This book provides insights into the ideas, diligence and commitment that went into the making of the institute – from hospital-based service provision to community eye care, from epidemiological studies to basic research and clinical research.
D V R Seshadri, Shlomo Maital, Shobha Mocherla, Sreedevi Penmetcha
D.V.R. Seshadri
D V R Seshadri is a clinical full professor of business in marketing at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. He has taught in the IIMs and is actively involved with several NGOs such as the Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai; L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad; Sant Singaji Institute of Science and Management, Sandalpur; and DHAN Foundation, Madurai. He has co-authored several books such as “Innovation Management,” with Shlomo Maital, Sage India in 2007; “Global Risk/Global Opportunity,” with Shlomo Maital, Sage India, in June 2010.
Shlomo Maital
Shlomo Maital is a senior researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Technion-Israel, Institute of Technology, and professor (emeritus). He is the author, co-author or editor of 12 books, including “Global Risk/Global Opportunity” (SAGE 2009), “Innovation Management” (Sage, 2007; 2nd edition, 2012) and “Executive Economics” (The Free Press, 1994), translated into seven languages. He was co-founder of
SABE-Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics.
Mr. Maital is married, with four children and 11 grandchildren. He completed the New York City Marathon in 1985 in 3 hours and 51 minutes, and in April 2007, completed the Boston Marathon in about 5 hours. In February 2008, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and reached Uhuru Summit. In 2010, he climbed Mount Kazbek in Georgia.
