Dr Charu Tandon did her graduation and post-graduation from MP Shah Medical College, Jamnagar (Saurashtra University) followed by her short term training in RP Center AIIMS New Delhi. She was briefly attached to MMEyeTech New Delhi as a Junior Consultant. She is presently a Senior Consultant at ICARE, she has been associated with ICARE since 1998 and joined the team at ICARE as a full time consultant since 2000. She has performed over 30000 cataract surgeries, including phacoemulsification, micro incision cataract surgery, FEMTO laser assisted cataract surgery, small incision cataract surgery, Extra capsular cataract extraction, her expertise is in difficult and complicated cataract surgeries including subluxated, traumatic, posterior polar cataracts. She is actively involved in teaching and training. She heads the surgical training wing at ICARE and over 400 trainee doctors have been trained under her supervision. She heads the ALCON phaco development program at ICARE. She has also been supervisor/co-supervisor for manyPostgraduates’ thesis. She has been actively involved in organizing workshops for Practitioners for skill enhancement.

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Cataract Surgeries including complicated cataracts, postgraduate training programs, cataract surgical training including phacoemulsification.

Presentations and publications

Co-author of the book “Step by Step visual field examination”.Jaypeebrothers publishers
Has more than 40 presentations and publications in local, national and International forums.