Recipient of Dr. Joseph Gnanadickam Gold Medal Oration Award

Greatest pioneer of ophthalmology in Tamilnadu Main aim was to give equal and high quality care to the rich and the poor.
This led him to start Dr. Joseph Eye Hospital in Trichy in 1936 One of the three founders of TNOA In 1960,
He unconditionally transferred the ownership of the hospital to the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church mission

RECIPIENTS OF DR. JOSEPH GNANADICKAM GOLD MEDAL ORATION AWARD
S.NO	DOCTORS NAME	YEAR
1	Dr.P.Siva Reddy	1983
2	Dr.S.S.Badrinath	1984
3	Dr.C.P.Gupta	1985
4	Dr.P.Namperumalsamy	1986
5	Dr. Babu Rajendran	1987
6	Dr.S.Tony Fernandez	1988
7	Dr. G.Natchiar	1989
8	Dr.Gullapalli N. Rao	1990
9	Dr. K.Anandakannan	1991
10	Dr.V.M.Loganathan	1992
11	Dr.C.R.Kamath	1993
12	Dr.J.Agarwal	1994
13	Dr. P.N.Nagpal	1995
14	Dr.K.R.Moorthy	1996
15	Dr.Chandran Abraham	1997
16	Dr.S.Natarajan	1998
17	Dr.B.Sridhar Rao	1999
18	Dr.Phillip Thomas	2000
19	Dr.Mary Abraham	2001
20	Dr.Ravi Thomas	2002
21	Dr.Renuka Sreenivasan	2003
22	Dr.Lingam Gopal	2004
23	Dr.V.Velayutham	2005
24	Dr.M.Srinivasan	2006
25	Dr.T.S.Surendran	2007
26	Dr.M.Radhakrishnan	2008
27	Dr.P.vijayalakshmi	2009
28	Dr.K.Vasantha	2010
29	Dr.D.Ramamoorthy	2011
30	Dr.M.Rajamohan	2012
31	Dr. R.Ramakrishnan	2013
32	Dr.Namitha Bhuvaneswari	2014
33	Prof. Dr. V.R. Vijaya Raghavan	2015
34	Dr.R.D. Ravindran	2016
35	Dr.T.Nirmal Fredrick	2017
36	Dr.C.M. Kalavathy	2018
37	Dr. Mohan Rajan	2019
38	Dr.V.Panneerselvam	2020
39		2021
40	Dr.M.Ananda babu	2022
41	Dr J Biswas	2023

I, as an eye care professional realize by removing darkness and
giving light to the patient
is indeed
God’s mission.