Asia Pacific Ophthalmic Trauma Society (APOTS) was set up in 2011 by Prof. Azad, Prof. Natarajan, Prof. Caroline Chee, Prof. Ganga and Dr. Rupesh Agrawal as founder members to improve the knowledge in ocular trauma.
There is no single person that can be one hundred percent sure he/she will be able to sustain trauma to one of the most important organs of the body with thousands of people suffer from ocular injury each day. There is great uncertainty in predicting the outcome of ocular trauma patients with lack of evidence based preferred practice pattern in ocular trauma.
Under the umbrella of Asia Pacific Ophthalmic Trauma Society, the team decided to set the tone for subspeciality care in ocular trauma and to formulate general guidelines through evidence-based medicine. The society will organize meetings, continuing medical education series, as well as research in ocular trauma and set up multicenter collaborative studies.