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Dr. Alay S. Banker is the Director of Banker’s Retina Clinic, Ahmedabad, Gujarat and Chief of Gujarat Telemedicine ROP Project (Honorary Services).  After completing MS from Gujarat University where he won the Gold Medal, he did a Vitreo-retinal fellowship at Medical Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, following which he was a Clinical Instructor and Fellow of Vitreo-retina and Uveitis at University of California, San Diego, USA.   Some of his achievements include the Senior AchievementAward, Achievement Award, International Scholar Award and International Education Award from American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), Senior Honor Award and Honor Award from American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS), APAO Achievement Award 2014, the Late. Dr. Piyush Patel Award for Social Service from Ahmedabad Medical Association and Gold Medal from All India community Ophthalmology Society for Community project on ROP and Dr. R. N. Mathur Oration from Gujarat State Ophthalmological Society, 2012. He has also won many Best Paper and Best Poster awards at AAO, USI, VRSI , State meets and AIOS including the Col. Rangachari Award for best paper at AIOS 2013 .  He is amongst a select few to be invited as a faculty to both the Uveitis and Retina Subspecialty Meets by AAO and to the Vail Vitrectomy Meet. He is a member of the International Uveitis Society Group (IUSG) and the Chief Liaison leader for Asia-Pacific Region to the International Affairs Committee of ASRS.     He has published 48 papers in International and National peer-reviewed Journals and has written 8 book chapters. He has given over 500 guest speaker presentations and over 100 instruction courses at National and International Conferences.