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|fields = [[Medicine]], [[ophthalmology]]
|workplaces = Chairman, [[Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital]]
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'''Dr Amar Agarwal''' M.S., [[FRCS]], F.R.C.Ophth is an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[ophthalmologist]] and Chairman and Managing Director of [[Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital]] and Eye Research Centre in India, which includes 95+ eye hospitals. He is the recipient of the Best Doctor award of the State government from then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J [[Jayalalithaa]] on 15 August 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Dr-Amar-Agarwal-Gets-Best-Doc-Award/2014/08/16/article2382223.ece |title=Dr Amar Agarwal Gets Best Doc Award |publisher=Newindianexpress.com |date=2014-08-16 |accessdate=2015-03-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://article.wn.com/view/2014/08/16/Amar_Agarawl_gets_Best_Doctor_award/ |title=Amar Agarawl gets Best Doctor award - Worldnews.com |publisher=Article.wn.com |date= |accessdate=2015-03-13}}</ref> He is also the past President of the International Society of Refractive Surgery (ISRS) and Secretary General of the Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society of India (IIRSI).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.healio.com/books/ophthalmology/%7Bd9cc6b08-1210-49c5-abff-2a28238e1e6f%7D/posterior-capsular-rupture-a-practical-guide-to-prevention-and-management |title=Posterior Capsular Rupture: A Practical Guide to Prevention and Management & About the Author |publisher=healio.com |date=2014-09-01 |accessdate=2015-03-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurotimes.org/node/244 |title=Indian Intra-ocular Implant and Refractive Surgery Convention highlights advances in ophthalmology |publisher=Eurotimes.org |date=2012-07-08 |accessdate=2015-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090609/http://www.eurotimes.org/node/244 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.healio.com/ophthalmology/news/print/ocular-surgery-news-asia-pacific-edition/%7B34a8da3c-3293-4ad9-9b52-b67c6c99799c%7D/educator-inventor-shapes-future-of-ophthalmology-in-india-worldwide |title=Educator, inventor shapes future of ophthalmology in India, worldwide | Ocular Surgery News Asia Pacific Edition |publisher=Healio.com |date= |accessdate=2015-03-13}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Amar Agarwal was born in [[Chennai]] on 20 July 1960 to [[Padma Bhushan]] Dr. [[Jaiveer Agarwal]] and Dr. Tahira Agarwal.
He completed M.B.B.S. degree in February 1983 from [[Madras Medical College]], [[Madras University]]. His further qualifications include M.S.(Ophtha) in July 1986 from [[Ahmedabad Civil Hospital]], [[Gujarat University|University of Gujarat]], [[Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons|FRCS]] in October 1986 from the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]], [[United Kingdom]] and F.R.C.Ophth in October 1988 from [[Royal College of Ophthalmologists]], [[London]], [[United Kingdom]].

==Career==
[[File:Amar Agarwal winning award from J Jayalalithaa.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Best Doctor Award]]
Prof. Amar Agarwal is the pioneer of Phakonit which is Phako with a Needle Incision Technology. This technique became popularized as Bimanual phaco, Microincision [[Cataract surgery]] (MICS) or Microphaco. He is the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7 mm tip with the technique called Microphakonit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=2706 |title=A look at Microphakonit Phaco |publisher=eyeworld.org |date=2005-09-01 |accessdate=2015-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904023135/http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=2706 |archive-date=4 September 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> He has also discovered No anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT a new technique to remove dropped nuclei.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery |date=2001-10-10 |doi=10.1016/S0886-3350(01)00793-3 |volume=27 |issue=10 |journal=Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery |pages=1643–1650|last1=Pandey |first1=Suresh K. |last2=Werner |first2=Liliana |last3=Apple |first3=David J. |last4=Agarwal |first4=Amar |last5=Agarwal |first5=Athiya |last6=Agarwal |first6=Sunita }}</ref> The air pump which was a simple idea of using an aquarium fish pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery. He was also the first to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes and publishing the details in his 4 volume textbook of ophthalmology.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=vySuqncQYIgC&pg=PA791&lpg=PA791&dq=trypan+blue+for+staining+epiretinal+membranes+by+amar+agarwal#v=onepage&q=trypan%20blue%20for%20staining%20epiretinal%20membranes%20by%20amar%20agarwal&f=false |title= Book titled 'Ocular Therapeutics' Chapter 47 |publisher=jaypeedigital.com |date=2013-09-01 |accessdate=2015-03-15|isbn= 9789350903209 }}</ref> He has also discovered a new refractive error called Aberropia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=3948|title= Phenomenon termed aberropia |publisher=eyeworld.org|date=2007-08-01 |accessdate=2015-06-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ophthalmologytimes.modernmedicine.com/news/aberropia-discovery-new-refractive-entity?page=full|title=Aberropia: the discovery of a new refractive entity|publisher=ophthalmologytimes.modernmedicine.com|date=2007-07-01|accessdate=2015-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622071014/http://ophthalmologytimes.modernmedicine.com/news/aberropia-discovery-new-refractive-entity?page=full|archive-date=22 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> He has also been the first to do a combined surgery of microphakonit (700 micron cataract surgery) with a 25 gauge vitrectomy in the same patient thus having the smallest incisions possible for [[cataract]] and [[vitrectomy]]. He is also the first surgeon to implant a new mirror telescopic IOL (LMI) for patients suffering from age related macular degeneration. He has also been the first in the world to implant a [[Glued IOL]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://crstodayeurope.com/2014/03/the-glued-iol |title=The Glued IOL |publisher=crstodayeurope.com |date=2005-09-01 |accessdate=2015-03-15}}</ref> In this a PC IOL is fixed in an eye without any capsules using fibrin glue. The Malyugin ring for small pupil cataract surgery was also modified by him as the Agarwal modification of the Malyugin ring for miotic pupil cataract surgeries with posterior capsular defects. Dr.Agarwal’s eye hospital has also done for the first time an Anterior segment transplantation in a 4 month old child with anterior staphyloma.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Anterior segment transplantation with a novel biosynthetic graft |date=2010-03-01 |pmid=20093940 | doi=10.1097/ICL.0b013e3181cd1b14 |volume=36 |issue=2 |journal=Eye Contact Lens |pages=130–6 | last1 = Jacob | first1 = S | last2 = Prakash | first2 = G | last3 = Ashok Kumar | first3 = D | last4 = Nair | first4 = V | last5 = Agarwal | first5 = A | last6 = Agarwal | first6 = A}}</ref> Prof. Agarwal has also reported and operated the first [[Pre-Descemet's Endothelial Keratoplasty (PDEK)]], a new type of [[corneal transplantation]] that can be used for patients with swelling or [[edema]] of the [[cornea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eyeporter.com/Blog/September-2014/PDEK,-New-inner-layer-cornea-transplant-technique |title=PDEK, New inner-layer cornea transplant technique - A State of Sight #92 |publisher=eyeporter.com |date=2014-11-04 |accessdate=2015-05-21}}</ref>

==Personal life==
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Amar Agarwal is married to Dr [[Athiya Agarwal]], an ophthalmologist. They have two sons, named Dr Adil Agarwal and Dr Anosh Agarwal. He has adopted his sister Dr. Sunita Agarwal's sons Dr Ashvin Agarwal and Dr Ashar Agarwal. All 4 of them being ophthalmologists and manage [[Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital]].

==Bibliography==
=== Books ===
* {{cite book | last = Agarwal | first = Amar | title = Phacoemulsification, Laser cataract surgery and Foldable IOL's- First edition | publisher = Jaypee, Distributed internationally by Slack and Highlights of Ophthalmology | location = Chennai | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-8171796243}}
* {{cite book | last = Agarwal | first = Amar | title = Refractive Surgery- First edition | publisher = Jaypee, Distributed internationally by Slack and Highlights of Ophthalmology | location = Chennai | year = 1999}}
* {{cite book | last = Agarwal | first = Amar | title = Phacoemulsification, Laser cataract surgery and Foldable IOL's- Second edition | publisher = Jaypee, Distributed internationally by Slack and Highlights of Ophthalmology | location = Chennai | year = 2000}}

==Awards, Video Awards and Honours==

Prof. Agarwal has received many awards for his work done in ophthalmology most significant being the Barraquer Award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pharmabiz.com/article/detnews.asp?articleid=13349&sectionid=17|title=Chennai ophthalmologist conferred Barraquer Award|publisher=pharmabiz.com|date=2002-12-13|accessdate=2015-06-25}}</ref> and the Kelman Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2005/02/22/stories/2005022205850300.htm|title=Kelman Award for ophthalmologist|date=2005-02-22 |work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2015-06-25}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> His videos have won many awards at the film festivals of ASCRS,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Agarwal-Hospital-bags-4-international-awards/2013/04/30/article1567383.ece|title=Agarwal Hospital bags 4 international awards|publisher=newindianexpress.com|date=2013-04-30|accessdate=2015-06-25}}</ref> AAO<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aao.org/about/awards/secretariat|title=Secretariat Award|publisher=aao.org|date=2015-01-01|accessdate=2015-06-25}}</ref> and ESCRS. He has also written more than 50 books which have been published in various languages- English, Spanish and Polish. He also trains doctors from all over the world in his center on phaco, bimanual phaco, lasik and retina. He heads Dr.Agarwals group of eye hospitals which has 67 eye hospitals. He has also been the Professor of Ophthalmology at [[Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute]] in [[Chennai]], [[India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://portal.sriramachandra.edu.in/Documents/Vist,Adunct,Emience,Emeritus%20-NationalInternation%2028.12.2013.pdf |title=SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY VISITING PROFESSOR – NATIONAL |publisher=portal.sriramachandra.edu.in |date=2013-12-28 |accessdate=2015-03-15}}</ref>

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