Dr. Ahiwalay supports the training and management of the HelpMeSee team of instructors and contributes to the development of the MSICS surgery simulator.

In addition to his work with HelpMeSee, Dr. Ahiwalay practices cataract and other anterior segment surgeries and has vast experience in MSICS practice and training.

Dr. André has instructed over fifty students from The Gambia, Togo and Madagascar in MSICS, many through a partnership with the Marseille School of Medicine. For HelpMeSee, Dr. André provides MSICS training out of the Mumbai Learning Development Center to trainees from Africa. Dr. Jean-Marie André has led distance education webinars on MSICS and in-person courses on Extracapsular Cataract Extraction (ECCE) to MSICS conversion in Cameroon.

Today, Dr. André is working with the Magrabi ICO Cameroon Eye Institute to develop an MSICS training curriculum that uses the HelpMeSee Eye Surgery Simulator that also includes supervised live surgeries.

Dr. André is a renowned inventor holding numerous patents for cataract surgery instrument design.

Dr. Bacchav joined HelpMeSee in 2017 as Lead Instructor and Subject Matter Expert. He leads the team of instructors teaching the MSICS surgeons. As a Subject Matter Expert, Dr. Bacchav worked with Dr. Nair to assist in the development of the Eye Surgery Simulator.

Dr. Diaz’s graduate thesis was on a comparison of the visual results of phacoemulsification cataract surgery with Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (MSICS). She received her board certification from the Mexican Council of Ophthalmology in 2018.   

As part of the HelpMeSee Partnership Training program, Dr. González will teach Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery using the Simulator and Cataract Surgery eBook.

In addition to her surgical appointment, Dr. González is President of the Research Ethics Committee and Head of Teaching at Instituto Mexicano de Oftalmología/La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is also a Collaborator for the International Council of Ophthalmology.

Dr. González graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Querétaro, where she completed her Instituto residency with Mexicano de Oftalmología I.A.P. and subspecialty study in ocular anterior segment microsurgery. She has a Master’s Degree in Bioethics from the Center for Advanced Social Research.

Dr. Nair graduated with a Master of Science degree from Sankara Nethralaya Eye Hospital in Chennai, India. After graduation, Dr. Nair underwent fellowship training programs in ophthalmic plastic surgery, ocular oncology and facial aesthetics at the L V Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, as well as a fellowship at the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai Hospital in the United States.

Prior to her current role, she founded, owned, managed, and performed surgeries at Eyes First Clinic and Surgery Center in Mumbai, India.

Dr. ShahBaldota finished her specialization in Ophthalmology at Baroda Medical College.  She also completed a Fellowship in Phacoemulsification at Laxmi Eye Institute.  Additionally, she concluded a short-term Fellowship in Glaucoma at Aravind Eye Hospital, as well as Advanced Training in Refractive Surgery (LASIK) at New Vision Laser Center.

She is a life member of the All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) and the Bombay Ophthalmology Association (BOA). 

Dr. Sheth is on the team of instructors training surgeons in Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery with the Eye Surgery Simulator and simulation-based learning system. Dr. Sheth is also closely involved in simulation development.

She was awarded the Excellent Instructor of Wenzhou Medical University in 2019.

Since December 2006, Dr. Xu has operated on over 4,000 of the total 13,000 charitable MSICS patients treated by Wenzhou Medical University.

Dr. Zhao has participated in four charitable MSICS treatment campaigns in China’s Plateau Region and restored sight to cataract patients in Burkina Faso as part of an African national charity project. Dr. Zhao has a passion for teaching and to date, has trained three doctors on MISCS.

He is a reviewer of the journals ‘IOVS’ and “Aging and Disease.”