Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The SN Academy, Chennai

The Sankara Nethralaya Academy (TSNA)
Sankara Nethralaya launched an Academy for creating eye care professionals. It will serve as a platform for creating, processing and disseminating knowledge related to eye care, ophthalmic research and hospital administration.
Sources in the Sankara Nethralaya said the Academy, shortly called The SN Academy, will offer certificate courses in Contact Lens, Vision Therapy, Continuing Optometric Education programmes and the Operation Theatre Assistant
programme.This will be followed by a one-year comprehensive ophthalmology fellowship programme and a certificate programme in grant writing that will be offered from June. In August, the Academy will begin its three-year certificate programme in dispensing optics.
Sources said the Academy will collaborate with institutes like Sankara Nethralaya, LIBA and others to offer wide-ranging certificate and fellowship programmes to train ophthalmologist, optometrists, nurses and administration personnel.

More information on The SN academy Course, You may contact:
Mr. A Mahalingam, Academic Coordinator – The Sankara Nethralaya Academy
Ph.: +91 044 – 4227 1825 / 0 93821 47796/Email:
mahali@snmail.org or academy.sn@gmail.com