Congratulations to Dr Hemamalini Arvind, winner of the 2006 Writer’s Award.

Dr Arvind was selected by the Journal’s independent advisory board panel for her paper: Arvind H, George R, Baskaran M, et al. Effect of extracapsular and manual small incision cataract surgery with intraocular lens on scanning polarimetry. Asian J Ophthalmol. 2006;8:86-90. The article was reprinted in the December 2006 issue of the Journal, which was distributed at the SEAGIG Chennai meeting

Dr Hemamalini Arvind

Dr Arvind was presented with the award plus a financial contribution toward her research at the meeting.