Associate Professor Alex Day

Mr Alex Day is a expert consultant eye surgeon specialising in laser eye surgery and cataract surgery at Moorfields Private Eye Hospital, London. His areas of clinical expertise include LASIK, transPRK and SMILE laser vision correction, and lens surgery including refractive lens exchange (RLE) and cataract surgery with extended depth of focus and multifocal intraocular lens implants, and also implantable collamer lens (ICL, implantable contact lens.

Mr Day qualified as a doctor from St George's Hospital Medical School, London, with a double Distinction and 1st Class BSc (Hons). His Ophthalmology training was initially on the south London rotation, moving to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2007 and undergoing 10 years of additional training. During his Higher Surgical Training at Moorfields, he worked as a Specialist Registrar whilst completing his PhD at University College London, later becoming an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and Fellow. Mr Day undertook fellowship subspecialist training in Cataract, Glaucoma and Corneal transplant surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital, while also worked as a part time refractive surgery fellow to Mr Julian Stevens, as a full time refractive surgery fellow and as a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon specialising in LASIK, SMILE and cataract surgery at the London Vision Clinic.

Mr Day is on the UK General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register, became a Member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (MRCOphth) in 2007 and later a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth) in 2013. He also holds the Royal College of Ophthalmologists DRCOphth, Royal College of Ophthalmologists Certificate in Laser and Refractive Surgery (CertLRS) and the Ulster University Postgraduate Diploma in Cataract and Refractive Surgery (PGDip CRS, Distinction). He is an examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists' CertLRS examination.