Dr. Monica Samant is a Pediatric, Squint & Neuro Ophthalmology consultant at the Laxmi Eye Institute, Panvel, Mumbai, India. She has completed her Post graduate training in Ophthalmology from the D. Y. Patil Medical College, Kolhapur. She then pursued a Comprehensive Ophthalmology and Pediatric, Squint and Neuro – Ophthalmology Fellowship from the renowned L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.

In Sept 2015, Dr. Samant underwent a Research Fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology at Children’s Hospital, University of Pittsburg [UPMC]. Her interests include Pediatric Cataracts, Squint and Genetics. She is involved in studies on the same and some of her work has been accepted and published Nationally as well as Internationally.