Best Ophthalmologists in Leeds, UK

Mr Rehman was appointed as full-time NHS Consultant Eye Surgeon back in 2002 and performs around a thousand surgical procedures a year. He has performed well over twenty thousand surgical procedures during his career. In 2016 Mr Rehman left his NHS Consultant post to focus his time on working with Optegra Eye Healthcare to refine vision correction services on a full-time basis. Between October 2017 to March 2020 Mr Rehman was UK clinical lead for the Cataract and Vision correction services. He is chair of the medical advisory committee at Optegra Eye Hospitals northern regional network and is an amabasaddor consultant to Optegra UK.

Never one to rest on former achievements, he continues to devote much time and energy towards further innovation with particular emphasis on helping to encourage the adoption of new ideas wherever they have been clearly proven to help improve the lives of his patients. He works tirelessly to identify innovative new developments in macular degeneration, cataract surgery and vision correction technology, bringing major advancements in eye care from around the world.

Outside his working life, Shafiq spends as much time as possible with his wife, four children and one rather lazy labradoodle and a 'lively' Bichon Frise.

He has interests in cosmology, evolutionary science and in the history of medical and scientific endeavours.

Shafiq also remains an avid traveller and hopes one day to circumnavigate the world but probably not until he has hung up his operating gloves! 

• Cataract Surgery
• Complex Cataract Surgery
• Premium lens cataract surgery
• Cosmetic eye surgery
• Oculoplastic surgery
• Blepharoplasty
• Ptosis repair
• Ectropion repair
• Entropion repair
• Removal of lumps and bumps on eyelids/face
• Removal of skin cancer on eyelids/face
  

• General Ophthalmology
• Eyelid problems
• Cataracts
• Dry Eye Syndrome
• Facial skin cancer
• Vision problems
• Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
• Red-eye
• Droopy eyelid/ptosis
• Entropion
• Ectropion
  

Currently sitting as President of The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Professor Bernard Chang is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon specialising in oculoplastics, lacrimal and orbital surgery.

Before being elected President, he served as a council member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists for five years. He was also an elected member of the Ophthalmic Group Committee of the British Medical Association and a member of the National Ocular Oncology Group. He is on the Joint Committee on Surgical Training, serving on the interface Group on Cosmetic Surgery. Professor Chang has published academic papers in international journals and has co-authored a medical textbook.

• Eyelid Surgery
• Orbital Surgery
• Lacrimal surgery
• botulinum toxin injections 

• Oculoplastics/Eyelid conditions 
• watery eyes
• Dry eyes
• Thyroid eye disease
• Orbital disease

Mr Mokete is  consultant ophthalmologist specialising in medical and surgical diseases of the retina, vitreous and macula. From 2004-2005 he received advanced subspecialty training in medical retina at Moorfields at St George's Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, then undertaking a fellowship training in vitreoretinal surgery at the Sussex Eye Hospital followed by a further fellowship at St Thomas' Hospital in London gaining experience in the management of complex vitreoretinal conditions. 

• cataract surgery 
• complex cataract surgery 
• macula hole 
• age related macular degeneration 

• macular degeneration
• diabetic retinopathy
• retinal vein occlusions.
• retinal detachment epiretinal membranes and traction,
• macular holes
• cataracts 

Mr Chung is a Consultant Ophthalmologist with a specialist interest in cornea and oculoplastic surgery and sutureless cataract surgery. He has considerable expertise, having performed in excess of 13,000 ophthalmic operations, including over 5,000 small-incision sutureless cataract/lens surgery and 4,000 eyelid surgeries.

Mr Chung graduated from the Medical School in the University of Leeds in 1996 after completing both the basic and advanced surgical training in ophthalmology in the Yorkshire region. He undertook a specialised fellowship programme at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital & Leeds General Infirmary.

He has contributed many papers to national and international academic meetings, some of which have then been published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals. He is also the winner of the Best Academic Paper Presentation Prize at the North of England Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting and the Yorkshire Regional Brian Harcourt Best Poster Presentation Prize in 2006.

Mr Aws Al-Hity is a Consultant Ophthalmologist, Cataract Surgeon and Vitreo-retinal Specialist, who specialises in diabetic retinopathy, VitreoRetinal Surgery, cataract surgery, epiretinal membrane and sub-macular haemorrhage. He is currently based at The Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.

Aws qualified as a doctor in 2009 at the University of Leeds, and also completed his BSc in Neuroscience, in relation to medicine. He then went on to acquire his Certificate of Completion of Training in Ophthalmology from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. After this, Aws undertook further training at NHS Trusts in Hull, Yorkshire and Glasgow. He trained as a Ophthalmic Speciality trainee for seven years at Greater Glasgow and Clyde, after which he was a VitreoRetinal fellow for a year. He was appointed Consultant VitreoRetinal Surgeon at the Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust in 2019, where he has since remained, also treating private patients.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Retinal Detachment Surgery

Complex Cataract Surgery

Macular hole

Vitreoretinal surgery

Medical Retina

Diabetic Retinopathy

Epiretinal Membrane

Sub-macular Haemorrhage

Mr John Buchan works part time as a Consultant Ophthalmologist in Leeds, and part time as an Assistant Professor at the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 2015/16 he worked with the RCOphth as Principal Investigator on the Way Forward project aiming to identify and disseminate progressive working practices evolving from within UK eye departments that drive standards and efficiency in service delivery. During training, he completed an MD at ICEH, and has maintained an active and varied research interest subsequently. 

Having undertaken an Ophthalmic Public Health fellowship post-CCT he deputises as a college representative on the Vision 2020 Public Health Committee, and retains a strong commitment to the application of public health principles to the delivery of sustainable eye care as part of the Leeds Ophthalmic Public Health Team. 

• cataract surgery 
• complex cataract surgery 

• cataracts 
• eye problems 

Miss Devonport graduated from the University of Southampton Medical school in 1991 and continued her specialist training in Bradford - she took advanced training in medical retina and uveitis and specialist research in macular degeneration. 

She is currently a Consultant Ophthalmic surgeon with special interest in medical retina and uveitis - she specialises in the treatment of age related macular degeneration, medical retina and inflammatory eye disease. 

• Cataract surgery 
• age related macular degeneration 
• complex cataract surgery 

• macular degeneration 
• medical retina 
• inflammatory eye disease 
• cataracts 

Mr Khan is a Substantive Consultant Ophthalmologist providing cataract, cornea/refractive & glaucoma care for 23 months and performs a weekly high volume cataract list and a weekly subspecialty list (general anaesthesia cataract cases, glaucoma and corneal procedures). He served as Clinical Audit Lead and Clinical Governance Lead. He delivers alternate weekly teaching on glaucoma & corneal/refractive disorders to junior doctors in the department. 

He has publications in peer-reviewed journals and presented research findings at national/international meetings.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• glaucoma surgery 
• refractive surgery 
• cataract surgery 
• Cataract 
• cornea 
• glaucoma 

Specialist interest is Medical Retina. In particular, Age-related Macular degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy, Retinal vein occlusion.