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Mr Ali Mearza FRCOphth is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Charing Cross Hospital, part of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London, specialising in Cornea, Cataract & Refractive Surgery.

Mr Mearza has full specialist registration with the General Medical Council and is one of only a handful of surgeons in the UK who is fellowship trained in both cornea and refractive surgery.

He qualified from Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School (now part of Imperial College) in 1996 and shortly after began his career in Ophthalmology. He completed his training in London and went on to complete a years fellowship in cornea & external eye disease at the world renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital. He followed this with an additional one year fellowship in laser refractive eye surgery at the prestigious Emmetropia Mediterranean Eye Institute on the island of Crete, the birthplace of modern LASIK.

He has a keen interest in clinical research and has over 20 peer reviewed publications and over 20 published abstracts to his name and is an invited journal reviewer. He has presented his work at numerous National and International meetings and in addition has been an invited speaker to faculty in London, Greece and Australia.

He also has a keen interest in voluntary ophthalmology and has performed charitable work in India, Bali, Burma and Madagascar.

Mr Mearza is a member of the the Royal College of Opthalmologists, the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, the International Society of Refractive Surgeons and the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Mr David Allamby, FRCS(Ed), FRCOphth graduated from Sheffield University Medical School in 1987, and has specialised in ophthalmic surgery since 1989, becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and then a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1993.

He has worked at some of the United Kingdom's leading eye centres including Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. Mr. Allamby’s published work in ocular scar formation was undertaken at the University of Manchester, and was funded by a prestigious Wellcome Trust grant. He specialises in LASIK, LASEK, CK and other refractive treatments, which he performs full-time, and is one of a limited number of surgeons in the United Kingdom to do so. He was the first surgeon in the United Kingdom to perform CK for presbyopia, a condition requiring the use of reading glasses, and is the director of FOCUS Laser Vision in the UK.

Mr. Allamby offers LASIK and LASEK laser eye treatment and CK radio eye correction, working together with each patient to determine which procedure is most suitable. He believes in the patient being actively involved through a process of full informed consent, so that they may make the best possible decision based on state-of-the-art information.

In addition to more than 3000 LASIK and LASEK laser surgeries, our head surgeon has performed over 2000 CK radio eye treatments and has provided CK surgery training to visiting consultants from countries around the world. He has more experience with the enhanced 'light touch' CK technique, which was partly pioneered at FOCUS Laser Vision, than any other doctor in the world - a technique now adopted as standard by surgeons across the globe.



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