Robert J. Boeglin, MD – Board President
Robert Boeglin is an Indianapolis native. After attending Indiana University for undergraduate, medical school and Ophthalmology residency, he completed a Glaucoma fellowship at Yale University. He joined Midwest Eye Institute in 1991, and maintained a busy medical and surgical practice for more than ten years.
In 1997, Dr. Boeglin became president of the Institute’s 19-member physician group. Since that time, the group has grown significantly in size, added a south side office location, and more than doubled the annual number of patient visits. Dr. Boeglin left clinical practice for full-time health care administration in 2002, but has continued in his role as Midwest Eye’s President.
While in clinical practice, Dr. Boeglin was an active lecturer at the American Academy of Ophthalmology national conference and received the AAO Achievement Award in 2002. He was on the speaker’s bureau for the Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology and was voted by his peers to Indianapolis Monthly’s list of Top Doctors. He has served on the Board of First Baptist Athletics since 2003 after being awarded Volunteer of the Year in 2002, and is on the Board of the Little Red Door Cancer Agency.
In 2007, Dr. Boeglin, together with Dr. Naval Sondhi and Clarian Health, formed Health Venture Management (HVM). This company develops outpatient surgery center partnerships between physicians and Clarian Health. It also provides executive leadership and operational oversight of the surgery centers. HVM currently manages 6 surgery center companies with 8 locations in central Indiana. Though HVM’s primary focus is on outpatient centers, the company has also been engaged to improve surgical quality, safety, and efficiency in the hospital setting.
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Naval Sondhi, MD - Vice President
Naval Sondhi, M.D. completed Ophthalmology residencies in the United States and United Kingdom, where he was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 1984. He also completed a fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology at Indiana University and started practice as a Pediatric Ophthalmologist in 1991. He joined Midwest Eye Institute in 1995 where he still serves as Vice President of the Board. He remains a member of the faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Sondhi played a central role in the development of Beltway Surgery Center. In 2007, Dr. Sondhi left clinical practice for full-time health care administration. Since then, Dr. Sondhi, along with Dr. Robert Boeglin, has functioned as one of the principals of Health Venture Management (HVM). HVM develops and manages outpatient surgical facilities as partnerships between physicians and Clarian Health. HVM manages six surgery center companies in locations in eight locations and is slated to open three additional facilities in the next calendar year. HVM has been engaged to improve inpatient operating room efficiency and quality by a large Clarian affiliated hospital.
Dr. Sondhi has served as a mentor examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology. He has served on the Boards of the Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology and Prevent Blindness, Indiana. He was awarded the Senior Honor Award by the American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmologists. He has conducted many courses and given lectures at the AAO and AAPOS. He serves on the Editorial Board of Ocular Surgery News. Dr. Sondhi was named one of Indianapolis’s Top Doctors by Indianapolis Monthly.
Dr. Sondhi has served on many teaching mission trips on Project ORBIS as a Consulting Professor.
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