Professional Experience:

Dr. Parikshit Gogate had secured 55th All India rank in the Civil Services 1999 exam and attended the Foundation course at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, for IPS (Gujarat) batch of 2000.

He worked with Poona Blind Men’s Association & H.V. Desai Eye Hospital from 1998-2009, heading the paediatric ophthalmology & community ophthalmology departments and in 2008-2009 as the Medical Director.

He was a visiting faculty at the African Vision Research Institute, Durban, South Africa (2012-2017) and ICARE, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India (2002-2016). Ophthalmology consultant at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital (2001-6), Ruby Hall Clinic (2001-9)

He is a Honorary Lecturer at the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Engineering at Queens University, Belfast, UK (2020-2029).

He is presently in private practice since 2010 and is the Trustee of Community Eye Care Foundation, Pune, India; Associate Professor at D.Y. Patil Medical College, Pimpri (faculty since June 2012) and the Medical Director of Atharva Netralaya Pvt Ltd, a group practice, since May 2013. Eye Surgeon at Leela Madhav Mokashi Memorial Hospital, Gyanba Borawake Old Age Home, Village Tandulwadi, Taluka Baramati since 1998.

He has performed more than 82,000 intraocular surgeries as well as more than 2200 paediatric eye surgeries.

He has presented 142 papers in international meetings, and more than 450 papers in national meetings and in the Col. Rangachari session on 11 occasions, without winning it! Is Ph.D. and masters guide in 3 universities.

He has published 138 papers in PubMed indexed journals with interest in cataract surgery, community eye health: paediatric ophthalmology, training and research. He has been invited to teach/ speak on cataract surgery in Abu Dhabi, China, USA, UK, Oman, Ethiopia, Uganda, Germany, Cameroon, Malaysia, Indonesia, Spain, Mongolia, Zambia, Egypt, Vietnam, Ghana, Fiji and Pakistan and about paediatric ophthalmology in Dubai, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Syria, Oman, Cambodia, Nepal, Mexico, Bangladesh, Zambia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa and Tanzania. He has been the evaluator for paediatric ophthalmology programs in India, Nepal, Zambia, Indonesia and Ethiopia for various international development organisations.

Parikshit is married to Bageshri, a Professor of Pathology and is an avid philatelist, numismatist, reader, mountaineer and traveller.

Positions held: Member, Editorial board, Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology & Research (2012-ongoing)

• President, Maharashtra Ophthalmology Society (2020-21). Chairperson of Scientific Committee (2016-2018), Treasurer (2015-2016)
• Member Scientific Committee, All India Ophthalmology Society (2020-2023)
• Member (West zone), Academic & Research Committee, All India Ophthalmology Society (2014-2017), (2026-29)
• Secretary, International Society of Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgeons (2012-2020), Vice Chair (2020-ongoing)
• Secretary, International Society of Geographic & Epidemiologic Ophthalmology (2014-2020)
• Managing Committee Member, All India Ophthalmology Society (2023-2026), Member, Ethics Committee, Member Vision 2030 committee
• President, Poona Ophthalmology Society (2026-2027)
  Section Editor, Community Ophthalmology & Research, Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (2012-2017)
• Member, Editorial board of Indian edition of Community Eye Health (2004-2009)
• Secretary, Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) at Government Medical College, Miraj 1996-1997, Joint Secretary 1995-1996
• General Secretary of the Students’ Association, B.J. Medical College, Pune 1991-1992, Students’ Editor of the college magazine, ’Byjeemic’ in 1990-91