Name :Late Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath
Date of Birth : 24-02-1940
Date of Demise : 21-11-2023

   "TRUSTEE Sri Kanchi Sankara Health & Educational Foundation"

Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath was born in Triplicane, a suburb of Chennai, India. He graduated from the Madras Medical College, Madras, in 1963. He did his internship and a year of internal medicine residency at the reputed Glasslands Hospital, New York.
Following his studies of Basic Sciences in Ophthalmology at the New York University medical school, he did his residency in Ophthalmology at the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, and a fellowship with Charles Schepens at the Retina Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1969 and diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology in 1970. He returned to India in 1970, and for a period of six years worked at the Voluntary Health Services in Chennai as a consultant.
It is then that he found his calling; he understood the need for grassroots level ophthalmic services in the nation. In 1978, Dr. Badrinath, along with a group of philanthropists, founded the Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, a charitable not-for-profit eye hospital and a unit of the Medical Research Foundation.
He was associated with Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya from its formative years. Dr. Badrinath's immense contributions as a trustee of Sri Kanchi Sankara Health & Educational Foundation will be forever revered. His priceless contribution for the development of human resources and technology transfer facilitated the foundation and overall development of Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya.