Naveen Kumar Challa
Buraidah,Saudi Arabia
Summary
Enthusiastic Assistant Professor in optometry and vision science with extensive research, teaching, supervision and administration experience. Meticulous and methodical in approach to all tasks, guaranteeing high quality results in line with research specifications.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Assistant professor
Qassim University
Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
12.2018 - Current
- Worked closely with other faculties to support collaborative research for course progression.
- Developed multidisciplinary approaches to education, ensuring high-quality teaching, research, and student experiences.
- Continued personal professional development by attending workshops and training, optimizing knowledge to enhance course curriculum.
- Helped students to achieve target grades through continuous curricular support and motivation.
- Managed curriculum design and implementation, developing clear, concise learning methodologies through research and planning.
Head of the department, Assistant professor
Centurion University of Technology and Management
Vishakapatnam, India
03.2018 - 12.2018
- Managed curriculum design and implementation, developing clear, concise learning methodologies through research and planning.
- Provided strategic vision, direction and leadership to the optometry department using vision science expertise.
- Kept employee workloads fair and balanced to achieve objectives while maintaining high job satisfaction.
- Cultivated positive rapport with fellow employees to boost company morale and promote employee retention.
Clinical Advisor
Staar Surgical
Hyderabad, India
12.2015 - 12.2016
- Actively enhance the scientific presentations on ICL that would reach the target audience through review and editing
- Compliant handling in a systematic manner and preparing the standard protocols for the same and timely help to the customers by technical advice and also with the support of literature.
- Having good communication and contacts with the KOLs by meeting them regularly. Understanding of KOL pre-op and postop work up for ICL surgery thereby giving technical advice wherever necessary.
- Maintaining the literature of ICL that is published in Local and International Journals. Strongly involved in clinical studies that would boost the understanding of ICL
Group academic head
Lotus eye hospital and insttitue
Coimabatore, India
05.2014 - 11.2015
- Managed conflict resolutions to maintain fostering school environment.
- Managed maintenance and repairs of school machines and equipment.
- Managed and maintained comprehensive school and staff diaries.
- Facilitated team building sessions to build rapport with staff.
- Designed and managed educational programs suitable for student needs.
- Communicate with parents, regulatory bodies and the public
Postdoctoral fellow
Wayne state university
detroit, United states
03.2013 - 12.2013
- Perform patch clamp recordings in the retinal slice preparation.
- Perform immunohistochemical study to characterize retinal neurons
- Assist with general lab maintenance and care for mice.
- Analyze data and write abstracts/paper manuscripts. Present results at science meetings.
Associate research optometrist
L V Prasad Eye Institute
Hyderabad, India
08.2011 - 02.2013
- Presented research findings with clear communication and data visualisation skills.
- Reviewed academic literature and prepared concise summaries.
- Gathered information from multiple trusted sources.
- Used different tools and techniques to perform robust primary and secondary research.
- Identified knowledge gaps and arranged plans to collect missing information.
- Designed experiments to produce scientifically sound results while working with limited infrastructure and resources.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - Vision science
University of Bradford
Bradford, UK 01.2007 - 07.2011
Bachelors of Science - Optometry
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
Hyderabad 08.2003 - 07.2005
Skills
- Innovative teaching techniques
- Applied research
- Teaching and supervision
- Motivational leader
- Syllabus development
- Grant proposal writing
- School administration
Additional Information
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- Vistakon Travel Grant by American Academy of Optometry 2007
- International Colour Vision Society travel grant
- 2009 BRAIN Travel Grant 2009 (Awarded by Guarantors of Great Britain)
- Palmer award from Colour group, Great Britain 2009
Languages
English
Advanced
Hindi
Upper intermediate
Telugu
Fluent
Publications
Alrasheed, S. H., & Challa, N. K. (2023). Prevalence of hyperopia in school-aged children in eastern Mediterranean region: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology (Ahead of PRINT).
· Naveen K Challa, Suliaman Aldakhil (2023) Clinical spectrum of Traumatic Optic neuropathy, Observation study. The Open ophthalmology Journal, 17(1).
· Naveen K challa, Himabindu Narsini, Sulaiman Aldakhil (2023) "Phenotypic expressions of Chronic LHON patients with primary and secondary mitochondrial mutations presenting at Tertiary Eye Care Centre, South India." Egyptian Retina Journal 9.1 (2022): 8
· Challa, N. (2022). Prevalence of amblyopia among the children of Saudi Arabia: A systematic review, 1990–2020. African Vision and Eye Health, 81(1),
· Naveen Kumar Challa, Indira Priyadarshini, Sandhya Rani (2022) Comparision of Photopic Negative reponses of electroretinograms in non diabetic and diabetic Indian subjects. Journal of Retina and Vitreus 31, 285-290.
· Challa NK, Adil A (2022) How Commonly One-Eyed Patients use Monocular Cues: A Survey at Tertiary Eye Care Hospital. Journal of clinical and experimental ophthalmology, 13:934.
· Challa NK, Alghamdi WM. (2021). Normal Ocular Protrusion Values in South Indian Population and Effect of Age, Gender and Refractive Status on Ocular Protrusion. Clinical Ophthalmology. 2021;15: 1445-1451.
· Naveen Kumar Challa, GO Ovenseri-Ogbomo and Sharma A (2021) Changes in Pupil Mydriasis as a Marker for Diabetes. Open Acess Journal of Ophthalmology, 6(2): 000228.
· D. McKeefry, J. Kremers, D. Kommanapalli, N.K. Challa, I.J. Murray, J. Maguire & N.R.A. Parry. (2014). Incremental and decremental L- and M-cone driven ERG responses: I. Square-wave pulse stimulation, Journal of Optical Society of America 31 (4), pp. A159-A169.
· N.K.Challa, D.McKeefry1, N.R.A.parry, J.Kremers, I.J.Murray, & A.Panorgias. (2010). L- and M-cone input to human 12Hz and 30Hz flicker ERGs across the retina. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics.30, 503- 510.
· Declan Joseph McKeefry, Neil Parry, Naveen Challa, Jan Kremers4, Ian Murray5&Athanasios Panarogias6. ERG signals driven by chromatic and luminance processing: Variation as function of retinal eccentricity (Abstract). Journal of Vision.11 (2), 2011.
· DJ McKeefry, NK Challa, IJ Murray, JJ Kremers, NR Parry. (2012). Characterising Human L-and M-cone ERGs Using a Four Primary System Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 53 (14), 5710-5710
Timeline
Assistant professor
Qassim University
12.2018 - Current
Head of the department, Assistant professor
Centurion University of Technology and Management
03.2018 - 12.2018
Clinical Advisor
Staar Surgical
12.2015 - 12.2016
Group academic head
Lotus eye hospital and insttitue
05.2014 - 11.2015
Postdoctoral fellow
Wayne state university
03.2013 - 12.2013
Associate research optometrist
L V Prasad Eye Institute
08.2011 - 02.2013
Doctor of Philosophy - Vision science
University of Bradford
01.2007 - 07.2011
Bachelors of Science - Optometry
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
08.2003 - 07.2005
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