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Mr Shanmuganathan undertook his undergraduate training at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' (UMDS), now King's College London. He qualified in 1995, having been awarded the Lord Riddell Prize for Surgery.

He started his ophthalmic training in 1998 working in a number of ophthalmology departments across the United Kingdom and abroad. These included the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in Japan, Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, St Georges Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital, London.

Following completion of his ophthalmic medical training, Vijay undertook a further two years of sub-specialist fellowship training in cornea and external eye diseases at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Mr Shanmuganathan's NHS practice is based at the Royal Eye Unit of Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where he runs the Corneal Service and oversees the Eye Casualty.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Cataract surgery
• Yag Laser treatment (following cataract surgery)
• Pterygium excision and conjunctival auto-grafting
• Eye Test
• Corneal transplantation
• Ocular surface infections including conjunctivitis, bacterial and viral corneal infections (keratitis) and other contact lens related infections
• Dry eyes and blepharitis
• Keratoconus
• Allergic eye disease
• Corneal and conjunctival inflammatory disease
• Minor eyelid conditions including removal of chalazia or meibomian cysts and styes
• General ophthalmic conditions including management of glaucoma and ocular hypertension.