Dr Poonam completed her MBBS in Dec 1997 from DMC Ludhiana.
Subsequently she did MS Ophthalmology in December, 2000 from the same institute.
Thereafter she worked in PGIMER, Chandigarh, one of the premier Eye institutes of the country as a Senior Resident for 4 years in various eye super specialties like retina, squint, glaucoma, oculoplastics, cornea etc.
She is doing all types of simple and complicated eye surgeries like:
- Phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation
- Paediatric cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation.
- Scleral fixated Intraocular lens implantation
- Keratoplasties – Therapeutic and optical
- Triple surgery – Keratoplastry+cataract extraction+Intraocular lens implantation
- Limbal cell transplantation
- Amniotic membrane grafting
- Glaucoma filtration surgery with and without adjustable suture
- Scleral buckling for retinal detachment
- Vitrectomies for endophthalmitis and bitreous hemorrhage
- Foreign body removal
- Repair of injured eyes.
LASER application experience:
- Panretinal photocoagulation
- Iridotomies
- Posterior capsulotomies
- ROP laser
She is the only eye consultant in the private sector in the tricity (Mohali,Chandigarh, Panchkula) who is screening premature new born babies for ROP (retinopathy of prematurity), and is empanelled to all the major new born care hospitals in the tricity for the same.
She started her private practice & for the last 1 year has joined her husband who is a Child Specialist and is empanelled to premier hospitals like Fortis and Apollo Clinics.
She is also Senior Eye Consultant in the Indian Medical Association Complex at Sr. InderjitSingh Charitable Hospital in Sector 35, Chandigarh.