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Biography
Mr Faisal Ahmed received his MBBS from St George’s Hospital Medical School, London University, and his BSc(Hons) from Imperial College London. He was a trainee and glaucoma research fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital and undertook a glaucoma fellowship at the Western Eye Hospital.
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Miss Sally Ameen completed her pre-clinical medical school training at St Andrew’s University in Scotland, achieving distinction at BSC level. She then transferred to St George’s medical school in London where she graduated with the degree of merit. After her foundation training, she entered the ophthalmology run-through training in the north west London deanery and trained at the main ophthalmology teaching hospitals, namely Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Western Eye Hospital. Miss Ameen chose to sub-specialise in glaucoma and successfully completed her final year training in this field and went on to her current substantive consultant post at the Western Eye Hospital.
Through her training she has had a keen interest in education, taking every opportunity to formalise her skills and gain further experience in this field (through a special study module at medical school and then a postgraduate Msc module during training). She now holds the post of college tutor where she leads more than 20 trainees, both deanery and non-deanery and across the spectrum of seniority.
Miss Ameen has presented at a number of national and international meetings, published two book chapters and a number of other papers in peer reviewed journals.
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Philip Bloom has clinical interests in Glaucoma & Cataract. He qualified in 1984 (Bristol University) and trained in Bristol, The Western Eye Hospital & Moorfields Eye Hospital. He is President of the UK & Ireland Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS), Chairman of the International Glaucoma Association (IGA), Trustee and Board Member of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), council member & past President of the RSM Ophthalmology Section and a Keeler Scholarship Board Trustee (Royal College of Ophthalmologists). His special clinical and research interests include minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (including glaucoma laser treatments), neuro-protection, surgical simulation/training and spectacle independence after cataract surgery.
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Miss Melanie Corbett is a consultant at the Western Eye Hospital. She specialises in corneal, ocular surface and anterior segment surgery, which includes surgery for complex cataract and corneal transplantation. She is also responsible for emergency cases including injuries and severe infections. She provides expertise in medical contact lens fitting for many corneal conditions including keratoconus.
Miss Corbett qualified from the Royal London Hospital in 1987 and undertook her ophthalmic training at Oxford, St Thomas’s, Kings College and Moorfields Eye hospitals. This included subspecialty fellowship training in cornea and complex cataract. She took up her consultant post in 1999. Miss Corbett has always been very interested in research and new developments, and has published over 60 scientific articles. She received a University of London Award to spend three years in a dedicated research post studying wound healing in the cornea, resulting in an MD degree. Her book ‘Corneal Topography – principles and applications’ addresses the measurement of corneal shape.
Miss Corbett also has major roles in training and education, both locally and nationally. She has particular interests in surgical training and trainee development within her own unit. As a training programme director she had responsibility for the delivery and quality assurance of training within the London deanery. Previously she was president of the Medical Contact Lens and Ocular Surface Association (MCLOSA) and hosted the European Medical Contact Lens Conference. For the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) she has lead the Training the Trainers Programme nationally and overseas for nearly 10 years. She has been a member of the Executive Committee and the Trustee Board, and now chairs the Education Committee.
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Laura Crawley is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon with specialist interests in glaucoma, cataract surgery and common red eye conditions such as blepharitis and conjunctivitis. Her expertise include bespoke cataract surgery, glaucoma laser treatments, minimally invasive and penetrating glaucoma surgery.
She qualified in medicine from the University of Bristol in 1999, winning the Gold Medal and Suple prizes for medicine and surgery. Having completed physician training and becoming a member of the Royal college of Physicians she undertook Ophthalmology training in Oxford, Moorfields and Imperial. She won the National Alcon Glaucoma prize in 2009 and was awarded the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ Treacher Collins prize in 2012 and Imperial College Ophthalmic Research Group Medal in 2011. She is published and lectures widely including the UCL Ophthalmology MSc course and BMJ masterclasses for GPs series. She is passionate about medical education and has published widely in this field and in glaucoma.
Her research is focused on improving glaucoma drop treatments and their side effects , endocyclophotocoagulation laser treatment in glaucoma and new ways of identifying glaucoma before significant damage has occurred.
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Mr Graham Duguid trained in medicine in Aberdeen. He has completed postgraduate training in Glasgow, Melbourne, Paris and at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.
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Dr Veronica Ferguson trained in London at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital medical school.
She undertook ophthalmic training at Moorfields and in Glasgow.
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Miss Ourania Frangouli is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon with a subspecialty interest in glaucoma, paediatric ophthalmology and cataracts. She is also part of the team for community and general and emergency ophthalmology. She is currently training programme director for ophthalmology in north Thames.
She has held the posts of unit training lead and college tutor for ophthalmology at Imperial College NHS Trust and at Barking, Havering and Redbridge (BHR) University Hospitals NHS Trust. She completed her basic and higher ophthalmology training in the London deanery based at Moorfields Eye Hospital and was awarded a UK certificate of completion of training in 2011. She completed two clinical and surgical fellowships in Moorfields Eye Hospital in adult and paediatric glaucoma and in paediatric ophthalmology and strabismus. She holds the title of Member and Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (MRCOphth and FRCOphth) and is included on the specialist register for ophthalmology of the General Medical Council. She holds a PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine following her thesis on the ‘Investigation of anterior chamber angle in keratoconus’.
Before joining Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, she worked as a consultant in clinical posts in glaucoma and medical education at Moorfields Eye Hospital and in glaucoma and paediatric ophthalmology at BHR University Hospitals NHS Trust. She is a dedicated educator in ophthalmology and ophthalmic surgery trainer. In her posts she led service and training improvements as clinical lead for glaucoma as well as college tutor, unit training lead for postgraduate ophthalmology, deputy lead for undergraduate medical education and now as training programme director for ophthalmology in north Thames.
Miss Frangouli is a senior examiner on the European Board of Ophthalmology. She displays various clinical and research interests and has presented the findings on numerous national and international scientific meetings. She enjoys charitable work related to medicine and ophthalmology in the UK and abroad.
Additional languages spoken: Greek
Biography
Dr Amynah Goawalla studied medicine at Guy’s And St Thomas’ Medical School in London and qualified as a doctor in 1999. She went on to specialise in ophthalmology and completed the bulk of her higher surgical training at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She developed further sub-specialist expertise in oculoplastic surgery after undertaking fellowships in Brighton and then in Cardiff, Wales.
Dr Goawalla has been practising as a consultant eye surgeon since 2013. She joined Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as a substantive consultant in 2017 where she does emergency and general ophthalmology with a continued specialist surgical focus on cataract and oculoplastic surgery.
Additional languages spoken: Gujarati, Hindi