Dr. Soosan Jacob, Director and Chief, Dr. Agarwal's Refractive and Cornea Foundation and Senior Consultant, Cataract and Glaucoma Services at Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, Chennai, India is a noted surgeon, academician and a well-respected innovator. She is chair of multimedia editorial board ISRS, Secretary ISRS, Chair- cornea committee GERSO, associate editor JRS, section editor EyeNet (AAO) and editorial board member of many peer reviewed journals. She has been featured as one among five of the most influential female figures in ophthalmology at a virtual roundtable and listed multiple times among the Top 100 most influential people in ophthalmology and as a key opinion leader. She is also listed consecutively in Stanford's 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 lists of top 2 percentile scientists from around the world (published by Elsevier). She is a two-time winner of the ASCRS Golden Apple award, ASCRS Top-Gun Instructor award, John Henahan award, JRS Waring medal, Innovator’s award from Connecticut Society of Eye Physicians and numerous other international awards and named orations.
Her innovations include Corneal Allogenic Intrastromal Ring Segments (CAIRS) for keratoconus; Contact lens Assisted CXL (CACXL) for thin corneas; PrEsbyopic Allogenic Refractive Lenticule (PEARL) inlay for presbyopia; Glued capsular hook for subluxated cataracts; Stab Incision Glaucoma Surgery (SIGS), Air-pump assisted Pre-Descemet's Endothelial Keratoplasty and Endo-illuminator assisted Descemet's Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (E-DMEK); host Descemetic scaffolding; classification of Descemet’s detachments into rhegmatogenous, tractional, bullous and complex with treatment algorithm, Relaxing Descemetotomy; Turnaround technique for Intacs; Glued Endo-Capsular Ring, Anterior segment transplantation, supra-brow single stab incision ptosis surgery, sequential segmental terminal lenticular side cut dissection and white ring sign for SMILE, SMILE lenticule assisted dermoid excision and others. Her educational YouTube channel is amongst the top-most heavily subscribed ophthalmic YouTube channels.
She has authored more than 120 peer reviewed publications, more than 200 chapters in 40 books and is editor for 17 ophthalmology books.