Dr. Mridula Mehta

Dr. Mridula Mehta is a highly skilled eye surgeon with extensive training in various eye surgeries from world renown Dr R P Centre AIIMS Delhi as registrar and pool officer. She completed her MBBS from prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College and MS Ophthalmology from Lady Hardinge Medical College where she was awarded the gold medal for the best resident in Ophthalmology. Thereafter she was selected at AIIMS and worked as a senior resident and senior research associate for a duration of 6 years in oculoplastics, ocular oncology and pediatric ophthalmology services. She has expertise in performing stitchless cataract surgery, LASIK (Laser spects removal) and various other highly specialized cosmetic eye surgeries along with other laser procedures. She had more than 80 publications in national and international journals. She has been awarded the best research associate from AIIMS. She has been invited for numerous talks and is actively engaged in teaching in various national and international conferences. In her long illustrious career spanning 25 years  Dr Mridula Mehta strives for excellence in patient care and treatment and consistently delivers high-quality care to her patients. She is well known for her surgical skills and compassionate patient care.

Educational Qualification

• MBBS - Maulana Azad Medical college Delhi university, 1994    
• MS Ophthalmology - (Gold Medal)    Lady Hardinge Medical college Delhi University, 2003    
• DNB Ophthalmology - National Board of examination, 2003    
• Registrar at  Dr R P Centre AIIMS Delhi, Dr R P Centre All India Institute of Mehta Sciences Delhi, 2007    
• Senior Research Associate Dr R P Centre AIIMS Delhi

Special Training

• Micro incision stitch less Cataract Surgery
• - Lasik laser for specs removal 
• Glaucoma management Diabetic eye disease management
• Oculoplastic surgeries including all types of ectropion, entropion and ptosis surgeries
• DCR with various modifications like intubation, simultaneous reconstructive surgery in medial canthal areas etc, cosmetic surgeries and reconstructive surgeries like blepharoplasty, Tenzel’s, Cutler Beard, skin grafting, mucous membrane grafting. 
• Surgeries for ocular tumors like enucleation with non-integrated and integrated medpore implant, exentration, orbitotomy, tumor excision under frozen section control with reconstructive surgery etc.
• Laser and Cryotherapy for intraocular tumors.
• Special training/fellowship from Dr RP Centre:
• Squint and Glaucoma
• Investigative lab: Ultrasonography
• Fluoroscein Angiography and Laser where independently performed hundreds of angiograms and lasers for retinal disease like pan retinal photocoagulation, focal laser, macular grid, coloboma delimitation etc, glaucoma and cataract surgery related lasers like  YAG capsulotomy and YAG sweeping etc.
• Eye bank: enucleation of donated cadaveric eyes and eye bank management.
• Casualty Medical Officer trauma management
• Teaching: undergraduates, post-graduates, eye donation counselors at eye bank.

Clinical Expertise

• Microincision cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation
• laser cataract surgery 
• lasers for specs removal
• diabetic eye disease
• thyroid eye disease
• glaucoma
• pediatric eye disease
• oculoplastic surgery
• ptosis surgery
• cosmetic eye surgery
• blepharoplasty
• Pediatric eye problems

Experience

• Senior consultant Mehta National Eye care
• Senior eye surgeon Primus Super-speciality hospital
• Senior eye Surgeon Mata Guri Devi Medical centre

Awards & Recognitions

• Louis and Victor Rambo Medal (Gold Medal), for the best resident doctor in Ophthalmology, year 2002, Lady Hardinge Medical College
• BEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Award, 2007-2008 at Dr. R. P. Centre, AIIMS
• Certificate of Academic Excellence, year 2001-2002, Delhi Ophthalmological Society
• Awarded Best of the Session award for the session ‘Tackling the Eyelids’ for ‘Entropion and Trichiasis- How to Manage?’ Annual Conference of Delhi Ophthalmology Society, April 2007.
• Selected Expert Member for Task Force Group For National Retinoblastoma Registry. ICMR, 9th April, 2007.
• Associate editor of Bulletin of Delhi Ophthalmological Society, 2005.
• Award of merit at 21st congress of Asia Pacific Ophthalmology Society held at Singapore June 2006 for thesis work on retinopathy of prematurity.
• Second prize for free paper presentation ‘Myopia in preterm infants with and without ROP’ at annual conference of Kerala society of paediatric ophthalmology. 2004. Sarita Beri, Mridula Malhotra.
• Awarded Certification of Appreciation, by SAO, At SAARC society of Ophthalmology, Sep 2008.For paper presented: Orbital Hydatid disease: South Asian Academy of Ophthalmology Annual conference 2008.
• Awarded Prize: for Free Paper: ‘Tackling Mechanical Ptosis in Plexiform Neurofibromatosis of eyelids’, at ‘Ophthalmic Panorama’ Annual Conference of Oculoplastic association of India Society, Dec 2008.
• IMA NBD Award of Excellence in Ophthalmology . May 2024. Annual Accolades Ceremony for women.

Research & Publications

• Sethi S, Pushker N, Kashyap S, Sharma S, Mehta M, Bakhshi S, Khurana S, Ghose S.Extraocular retinoblastoma in Indian children: clinical, imaging and histopathological features.Int J Ophthalmol. 2013 Aug 18;6(4):481-6.
• Pushker N, Bajaj MS, Mehta M, Shankara Naik S, Khurana S. Unusual orbital foreign bodies.Int Ophthalmol. 2013 Oct;33(5):595-8. doi: 10.1007/s10792-013-9763-1.
• Mehta M, Sethi S, Pushker N, Kashyap S, Ghose S. Retinoblastoma: a pictoral review. Singapore Medical Journal.(In press)
• Sethi S, Meel R, Mehta M, Ghose S. Pseudotumor blepharon. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2011 Sep 1;48(5):266-7.
• Mehta M, Sethi S, Pushker N, Chawla B, Ghose S. Typical and atypical presentations of Retinoblastoma. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2010 Sep-Oct;47(5):320.
• M Mehta, S Sen, S Sethi, N Pushker, M S Bajaj, M Chandra.Large orbital hydatid cyst presenting as subconjunctival mass. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 10/2010; 104(7):601-4.
• Mehta M, N Pushker, S Sethi, M S Bajaj, S Sharma, R Rajesh, S Ghose.Oculo-orbital manifestations of osteopetrosis in an Indian patient. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 04/2010; 104(3):275-81.
• Mehta M, Sethi S, Pushker N, Chawla B, Ghose S. Retinoblastoma: still a challenge in developing countries. Acta Ophthalmologica 2011 Jun;89(4):e371.
• Mehta M, Pushker N, Sen S, Kamlesh G, Bajaj MS, Sharma S, Ghose S. Congenital cystic eye: A clinicopathological study. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2010 Aug 23;47:e1-4. doi:10.3928/01913913-20100818-13.
• Bajaj MS, Mehta M, Sen S, Pushker N, Sethi S, Ghose S. Schwannoma : an unusual Lacrimal Gland tumour in a Child. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2010 Nov 1;47(6):380-1.
• Mehta M, Sethi S, Pushker N, Bajaj MS, Ghose S. Delayed presentation of children with Waardenburg syndrome: A case series. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2010 Nov 1;47(6):382-3. doi:10.3928/01913913-20101104-07.
• Pushker N, Mehta M, Bajaj MS, Sharma S, Chawla B, Sethi S, Ghose S. Nasoethmoidal Cephalocele with Bilateral Orbital Extension Presenting as Bilateral Lower Lid Mass. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2010 Jan-Feb; 47 (1): 64 .
• Shrey D, Pushker N, Bajaj MS, Chandra M, Kashyap S, Yadav P, Mehta M, Bakshi S. Malignant Nonteratoid Medulloepithelioma of the Optic Nerve with Intraocular extension. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2010 Oct;38(7):731-3.
• Mehta M, Chandra M, Sen S, Bajaj MS, Pushker N, Meel R, Ghose S.Orbital teratoma: a rare cause of congenital proptosis. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2009 Aug;37(6):626-8.
• Sethi S, Mehta M, Rajnath, Chandra M, Ghose S. What is your diagnosis? Ankyloblepharon filiform adnatum. Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2010 May-Jun;47(3):139, 177.
• Pushker N, Bajaj MS, Mehta M, Kashyap S, Yadav P, Meel R, Sudhan M. Simultaneous Occurrence of Glial Heterotopia and Meningocele in the Orbit with Clinical Anophthalmia and Neurological Anomalies. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2009 Nov 2:1-4.
• Bajaj MS, Mehta M, Kashyap S, Pushker N, lohiya P, Chawla B, Ghose S. Clinical and Pathologic Profile of Angiomyxomas of Orbit. Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2011 Mar-Apr;27(2):76-80.
• Pushker N, Mehta M, Meel R, Bajaj MS. Disseminated cysticercosis with multiple bilateral orbital cysts. Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery2009 Nov-Dec;25(6):499-501.
• Pushker N, Meel R, Kaushal S, Bajaj MS, Mehta M, Lohia P. Congenital horizontal tarsal kink with microphthalmos corrected by intermarginal suture tarsorrhaphy. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2010 Jan-Feb;47(1):51-3.
• Beri S, Malhotra M, Dhawan A, Garg R, Jain R, D'souza P. A neuroectodermal hypothesis of the cause and relationship of myopia in retinopathy of prematurity. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2009 May-Jun;46(3):138.
• Kashyap S, Pushker N, Meel R, Sen S, Bajaj MS, Khuriajam N, Mehta M, Chawla B. Orbital schwannoma with cystic degeneration. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2009 Apr;37(3):293-8.
• Pushker N, Khuraijam N, Sen S, Bajaj M, Mehta M. Medulloepithelioma of the ciliary body associated with massive intravitreal hemorrhage in an adult. Can J Ophthalmol 2008 Apr;43(2):253-4.
• Tandon R, Mehta M, Satpathy G, Titiyal JS, Sharma N, Vajpayee RB. Microbiological profile of donor corneas: a retrospective study from an eye bank in north India. Cornea. 2008 Jan;27(1):80-7.
• Pushker N, Bajaj MS, Mehta M, Chaturvedi A, Ghose S. Atypical synophthalmos with arhinencephaly unilateralis. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2007 Sep-Oct;44(5):311-4.
• Pushker N, Mehta M, Bajaj MS, Sen S, Ghose S. Atypical oculo-orbital complex choristoma in organoid nevus syndrome. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2006 Mar-Apr;43(2):119-22.
• Bajaj MS, Pushker N, Chaturvedi A, Chandra M, Mehta M. Probing in children older than 13 months. Indian J Ophthalmol 2005; 53(2):144.
• Cryoextraction of orbital tumours with finger tip probe. Pathak H, Bajaj MS, Mehta M. British J Ophthalmol 7 June 2005,89(6):777-8.
• Pushker N, Bajaj MS, Mehta M, Chaturvedi A, Ghose S. Proboscis, nostril aplasia, double cornea and lens. London Dysmorphology and Neurogenetics database, 2008.
• Sethi S, Bhartiya S, Mehta M, Chandra M, Ghose S. Hunter’s syndrome and buphthalmos in a girl: an unusual ophthalmic association. Acta Ophthalmologica 2009; 87 (s244).
• Sethi S, Ghose S, Pushker N, Bajaj MS, Kaur J, Kashyap S, Mehta M, Saxena P, Chawla B, Chandra M. A Western blot analysis of P-glycoprotein in retinoblastoma. Acta Ophthalmologica 2009; 87 (s244).

Conference & Forum Participations

• Invited as faculty for Annual Conference of Delhi Ophthalmology Society 2016 moderator and speaker
• Invited as faculty for Annual Conference of Delhi Ophthalmology Society 2017moderator and speaker
• Invited as faculty for Winter midterm Conference of Delhi Ophthalmology Society 2017 myopia control in children what does research say
• Instruction course : Blue prints of Eyelid Restoration : Essentials and Strategic Foundations in Reconstruction. Asia pacific Academy of Ophthalmology – All India Ophthalmology society. April 2025

Professional Membership

• Delhi Ophthalmology Society
• All India Ophthalmological Society
• Oculoplastic Association of India