Meena Palakurthy is a certified optometrist with almost a decade of experience in various areas such as clinical practice, patient care, teaching, research and statistics. She did her B.Sc Optometry from Bausch and Lomb School of optometry and her master of Optometry from Manipal Academy of Higher Education. In April’23 she joined AAIMS as a full-time faculty and currently handling the Optometry program as a Program Manager. She has published 5 research papers in glaucoma journals.