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Syed Modasser Ali

Syed Modasser Ali is an ophthalmic surgeon from Bangladesh and a former Executive Board member ^[1] of the World Health Organisation. He was also the Director-General ^[2] of Health Services ([1]) for the Bangladesh government in 2001, Dean of the Faculty of Postgraduate Medicine and Research at Dhaka University from 1998 to 2001, Chairman of the Bangladesh Medical Research Council ^[3] from 1998 to 2003 and Director of the National Institute of Ophthalmology ^[4] in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 1997 to 2001. He is currently the president of the Ophthalmic Society of Bangladesh ([2]).

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He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Community Ophthalmology (public eye health) and his book titled 'Community Ophthalmology' published in 1985 is considered by the British Journal of Ophthalmology ([3]) as the first textbook on the subject ^[5].

References

^ 3rd Annual Meeting, School Health Component of the Mega Country Network, WHO. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
^ Fourth Annual Meeting of School Health Component of Mega Country Network, WHO. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
^ Eighteenth Meeting of the Ministers of Health of SEAR, SEARO, WHO.
^ Report of WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA Coordinating Committee on Health (CCH), WHO. Retrieved on 2007-12-21.
^ Community Ophthalmology, Book Review, BJO. Retrieved on 2007-12-17.