Dr R V Ramani is the founder and Managing Trustee of Sankara Eye Care and Institutions. He has over 8 hospitals across India performing over 650 free eye surgeries everyday. His 80-20 model allows for over 40 lakh children are being screened for undetected visual defects and get treated. He was selected as a Group Study Exchange Team Member of Rotary International and visited the US as “Goodwill Ambassador” in 1980. He was selected by the Government of India as one of the 2 working group members in the non-governmental sector for the Vision 2020 Program. He is the recipient of the Rotary Club of Singapore’s Award for Humanitarian Service for the “Gift of Vision” project in Cambodia in the Year February 1996.  He was conferred the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2019 and is the recipient of several awards like the Lifetime Achievement Award by Keyemsee Associates, Chennai Chapters in June 2000 , Vaidya Ratna by Veda Vyasa Sabha Trust, Chennai in December 2000 , Lifetime achievement by the Indian Medical Association in 2014 to name a few.