Meet Dr Nikhil L. Kumar

Vision is profoundly important, and plays an integral role in quality of life. At Vision Clinic Sydney we aim to enhance vision and prevent vision loss using the safest techniques available.

Dr Nikhil L. Kumar

About Dr Nikhil L. Kumar

BMED GradDipMed(RefCatSurg) MPH FRANZCO FWCRSVS

Medical Director and Principal Ophthalmic Surgeon

Dr Nikhil Kumar is an Australian trained ophthalmologist and a subspecialty fellowship trained refractive laser, cataract and cornea surgeon. He consults at Vision Clinic Sydney and Narellan Eye Specialists. Vision Clinic Sydney is a boutique cataract, laser and lens refractive and cornea practice located in the Sydney CBD. Narellan Eye Specialists is located in the southwest Macarthur region. He serves patients from the greater Sydney and regional NSW areas.

Dr Kumar has over fifteen years of experience and has performed thousands of refractive procedures. He is thorough and meticulous in patient counselling, preparation for surgery, and in the delivery of optimal surgical outcomes. He is motivated to provide an exceptional level of high quality and quantity of vision to facilitate the freedom from correction that patients require in their daily lives. He strives to provide an excellent patient experience, to educate patients, and to dispel the myths surrounding laser corrective surgery.

Dr Kumar graduated in Medicine from the University of Newcastle in 1998 and earned a Master of Public Health from the University of New South Wales. He completed his ophthalmology residency at the Sydney Eye Hospital. Thereafter, Dr Kumar was awarded the Sydney Eye Hospital Alumni Travelling Fellowship to pursue further training in Cornea and Refractive Surgery at the University of Toronto in Canada. He has a Graduate Diploma in Refractive Surgery from the University of Sydney and received further refractive training in SMILE from the London Vision Clinic and the Nethradhama Super Speciality Eye Hospital in Bangalore. During his professional career he has served as subspecialist cornea surgeon at the Liverpool Public Hospital in southwestern Sydney. This entailed dealing with severe corneal disease and refractive surgical dilemmas and complications. He is a charter core group Fellow of the World College of Refractive Surgery and Visual Sciences.

In private practice he focuses on tailoring the solution to the patient. He offers all forms of cornea laser vision correction and phakic intraocular lenses. He has experience with a vast array of premium IOLs as lens refractive surgical solutions.

His specific areas of interest include:

Laser Eye Surgery (Lenticule Extraction/LASIK/ASLA)
Cataract Surgery and Refractive Lens Exchange
The management of Keratoconus (Transepithelial Collagen Cross Linking and Femtosecond assisted CAIRS)
Pterygium Surgery
Cornea Transplantation
Glaucoma and Microincisional Glaucoma Surgery

Thompson C, Kumar N, Billson FA, Martin F.
The aetiology of perforating ocular injuries in children.
British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2002; 86(8):920-922.

Chang A, Kumar NL, Zhu M, Billson FA, Beaumont P.
Indocyanine green (ICG) localisation in surgically excised choroidal neovascular membranes (CNV) in age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2004; 88:307-309.

Kumar N, Chang A, Beaumont P.
Sympathetic ophthalmia following cyclophotocoagulation for rubeotic glaucoma.
Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 2004; 32(2):196-198.

Kumar N, Zeldovich A, Chang A.
Scleral Buckle Intrusion.
Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 2004; 32(2):228-229.

Kumar NL, Black D, McClellan K.
Daytime presentations to a Metropolitan Ophthalmic Emergency Department.
Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 2005; 33 (6), 586-592.

Chan C, Ritenour R, Kumar NL, Slomovic A, Rootman D.
Femtosecond Laser-assisted Mushroom Configuration Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty.
Cornea. 2010; 29:290-5.

Rootman DB, Kumar NL, Trope G, Rootman DS.
Buccal mucous membrane for the reconstruction of complicated leaking trabeculectomy blebs.
Journal of Glaucoma. 2010; 19:270-4.

Shehadeh-Mashor, Kaiserman I, Kumar NL, Sansanayudh W, Rootman DS.
The Effect of Successful Rebubbling After Descemet Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty on Endothelial Cell Counts.
Cornea. 2010; 29: 878-882.

Sansanayudh W, Bahar I, Kumar NL, Singal N, Rootman DS.
Intrastromal corneal ring segment SK implantation for moderate to severe keratoconus.
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. 2010; 36:110-3.

Kumar NL, Kaiserman I, Shehadeh-Mashor R, Ritenour R, Sansanayudh W, Rootman D. IntraLase enabled astigmatic keratotomy for post keratoplasty astigmatism: on axis vector analysis.
Ophthalmology. 2010; 117:1228-1235.e1.

Shehadeh-Mashor, Kumar NL, Slomovic AR, Rootman DS.
Deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty: up to five year follow up.
Ophthalmology. 2010; 117(4):680-6.

Kumar NL, Rootman DS.
Newer Surgical Techniques for the Management of Keratoconus.
International Ophthalmology Clinics. 2010; 50:77-88.

Shehadeh-Mashor, Kumar NL, Ritenour RJ, Rootman DS.
Keratoconus caused by eye rubbing in patients with Tourette syndrome.
Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology. 2011; 46:83-6.

Lal S, Kumar NL.
How to Treat: Age Related Cataract.
Australian Doctor August 2011.

Kumar NL, Rootman DS. (2013).
Femtosecond Laser Enabled Correction of Postkeratoplasty Astigmatism. In: Copeland RA, and Afshari NA. Principles and Practice of Cornea. New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical
Publishers Pty Ltd. p1427-1436.

Shehadeh-Mashor R, Bahar I, Rootman DB, Kumar NL, Singal N, Slomovic AR, Rootman DS.
Zig-zag Versus Top-hat Configuration in Intralase Enabled Penetrating Keratoplasty.
British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2013; Sep 30. doi: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2012-303049.

Viswanathan D, Kumar NL.
Bilateral Femtosecond Enabled Intrastromal Astigmatic Keratotomy to correct high post-penetrating keratoplasty astigmatism.
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 2013; Dec; 39(12):1916-20.

Viswanathan D, Kumar NL, Males J.
Outcome of Corneal Collagen Crosslinking for progressive Keratoconus in paediatric patients.
BioMed Research International 2014; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/140461.

Viswanathan D, Kumar NL, Males J, Graham S.
Comparative analysis of corneal measurements obtained from a Scheimpflug camera and an integrated Placido-optical coherence tomography device in normal and keratoconic eyes.
Acta Ophthalmologica 2015; 93(6): e488-94.

Viswanathan D, Kumar NL, Males J, Graham S.
Relationship of Structural Characteristics to Biomechanical Profile in Normal, Keratoconic, and Crosslinked Eyes.
Cornea 2015; 34(7): 791-6.

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