Dr. Vidyashankar Balasubramaniam is dedicated to highest quality of vision care and optometry services.  His clinic is conveniently located in Sahetia Polyclinic on Sion Trombay Road.

He is also currently working as Head – Department of  Oculoplasty and Orbit  at K.B.Haji Bachoali Ophthalmic hospital.  He is the Head of  the Sight Enhancement and Vision Rehabilitation Project at the hospital.  Dr. Vidyashankar has trained exclusive in Oculoplasty , orbital pathology, orbital reconstruction,  and Ocular Trauma at Sankara  Nethralaya . He has very good experience in Orbitotomies, Ocular Oncology, Orbital Fracture repair, Ptosis,  Entropion, Ectropion, Endoscopic DCR and Endoscopic orbital decompression.  Experience of OPD procedures like Refraction, Slit lamp Biomicroscopy, Direct and Indirect Ophthalmoscopy, Gonioscopy, Automated Perimetry, Synaptophore, Orthoptic evaluation and Fundus Fluorescein Angiography, and in all forms of CL fitting since 1992.  He has first hand extensive experience of operative procedures likes Oculoplasty and Orbital surgeries, Oncology, Extracapsular cataract extraction, IOL implantation, Phacoemulsification , Blumenthal cataract surgery, Sutureless non-phaco cataract surgery, Glaucoma surgery, Keratoplasty, Strabismus and anterior and posterior segment trauma.  He also has experience in  Retina-Vitreous surgery including, vitrectomy and intraocular foreign body removal,  YAG and ARGON Laser procedures, and has  assisted in a  number of cases of complicated retinal detachment.

Dr. Vidyashankar has also taught undergraduate clinics,  clinical and surgical training of  post-graduate  junior residents.  He has been the Professor in  School of Optometry at Lotus College of Optometry for 15 years.

Dr. Vidyashankar’s wife, Dr Hemalatha.Vidyashankar, MBBS, DOMS, DNB, FMRF is a specialist in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Squint, practicing ophthalmologist in Mumbai. They have a daughter, Gayathri,  who is very adorable and the apple of their eyes.