Dr. Vijayalaxmi Patil is a senior cornea, phaco and refractive surgeon at Anugraha Eye Hospital, Kalaburagi. She treats corneal and ocular surface diseases, keratoconus and cataract. She also performs laser and lens-based vision correction for patients who want to reduce their dependence on glasses.

Her surgical work includes topical phacoemulsification with toric and premium IOLs, ICL/IPCL implantation, tPRK and Contoura Vision, and collagen cross-linking (C3R) for keratoconus. She also performs corneal transplantation, both full-thickness (penetrating keratoplasty) and lamellar (DALK and DSEK).

She completed her MBBS in Kalaburagi and her postgraduate training at Mysore Medical College, where she received a gold medal in 2016. She then completed a fellowship in cornea and phaco-refractive surgery at Anugraha Eye Hospital, Vijayapura, followed by further training in DALK at L V Prasad Eye Institute and in DSEK at Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad. She has presented papers at state and national conferences and trains fellows at the Kalaburagi branch.