Our Management
Dr. Prithvi Mohandas
Managing Director, MIOT International Total eye Care
After completing school at Don Bosco, Egmore, Dr. Prithvi Mohandas joined Madras Medical College. Both his great grandfather and father had studied at this prestigious institution. Soon after obtaining his medical degree, he left for higher studies to the United Kingdom. First, he completed his obligatory three-year General Surgical training in Manchester.
After this, he moved to the Whittington Hospital, London, to start his North Thames Orthopaedic Registrar training, a rotating appointment, spanning four years. During this period, he developed a keen interest in redo hip surgery and hip reconstruction.
He lectured at the British Orthopaedic Society, The Royal Society of Medicine and the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Prithvi Mohandas went on to do a three-year fellowship purely in the surgery of the hip joint at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.
He returned to India in 2007 and was appointed Director of Hip Arthroplasty at the MIOT Hospitals, Chennai. In 2008, he became the secretary of the Indo German Orthopaedic Foundation. He lectured in the Atypical scenario in Indian hip surgery at Seoul, Beijing, Bangkok, Colombo, Manchester and Rochester, Minnesota.
In 2010, he was appointed as Joint Managing Director of MIOT Hospitals, Chennai. After delivering the Keynote address on Indian Healthcare at the House of Lords in spring 2011, he started the Indo British Health initiative (IBHI) in 2011. To promote the Spirit of Indian innovation, IBHI awarded grants to young Indian innovators in the field of Gastro intestinal and liver disease in 2012. And in 2013 he organized the Diabetes Summit in Jan 2013 at Chennai followed by the biggest ever Oncology Summit in India with 20 UK and 60 top Indian Oncologist on 6th and 7th September 2013 at Chennai and the HIPEC meet at Nov 2014 followed by the recent Oncology Summit on 15th & 16th December 2017 at Chennai.
Presently, he divides his time between training young Orthopaedic Surgeons in Hip Surgery and his administrative duties as Managing Director of MIOT International, a 1,000 bedded Multi Speciality hospital.
Ms. Lisa Marie Chetty
Director, MIOT International Total Eye Care
Completed state school in Seychelles after completing her GCE A levels in maths, physics and chemistry. Then she pursued an Optometry degree in the UK with the University of Bradford and attained a BSc (Hons). After completion of her degree, she did her professional qualifications with Vision Express Ltd and completed her clinical training in December 2002. She worked in UK as a locum Optometrist for 4 years and returned to Seychelles. She gained extensive clinical experience through Mr. Eddie Micock. Simultaneously she pursued a diploma in Therapeutics with the College of Optometrists in UK. In 2009 she returned to the UK to follow a full time MBA and graduated with Master in Business Administration in January 2011. In 2013, she returned to Seychelles and in 2016 set up VISUS Optical Pty Ltd.