i4vision Diagnostics

i4vision Diagnostics is a company that has been set-up to develop & commercialise Dr Dinesh Verma's inventions. First such invention is Personal Ophthalmic Diagnostic System (PODS) incorporating an innovative Tele Eye Screening Tool (iTEST). Dinesh Verma is a British Consultant Ophthalmologist (with a special interest in retinal disorders) since 1992. He has previously been Examiner for Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in University of Hull. In 2001 he won the PPP Medical Foundation’s prestigious Mid-career award that funded his research sabbatical at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University Hospitals, Baltimore, USA working with a team of researchers who are world leaders in use of innovative technology for ophthalmology including Virtual Reality Simulation. He then joined the same team as Visiting Professor & full-time Clinical Faculty at Doheny Retina Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Dinesh returned to UK in January 2004 and became the Medical Director for Netcare Healthcare UK's Ophthalmic Chains. Since 2005 Dinesh has been working as a Consultant in the Independent sector & NHS hospitals (including the prestigious Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust in 2009 -2010). The first patent application for the PODS device was filed in August 2005 and Pearson Mathews of Kingston, Surrey were commisioned to design it. The invention was short-listed for Medical Futures Innovation Award in 2008, received the runners-up prize for Health Enterprise East NHS Innovation Award in 2010 and the Electronics Technology Network award in March 2011.