Faisal Ahmed Consultant Profile
Mr Faisal Ahmed FRCOphth is a senior Glaucoma Consultant Surgeon at The London Clinic, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (Western Eye Hospital) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and was previously head of Specialty for Ophthalmology at the Western Eye Hospital. He trained at Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Faisal is one of the leading eye surgeons in the UK performing highly complex cataract surgery, as well as innovative combined cataract and glaucoma surgeries. He is known to be at the cutting edge of technologies and holds multiple world firsts in glaucoma surgery including: was the first surgeon in the world to use a new glaucoma surgical drainage devices, the eyePlate, eyePlate-S and and is also one of the few surgeons in Europe to be using a new minimally invasive glaucoma device the iSTAR MINIject and uses the latest available intra-ocular lenses for cataract surgery.
Faisal has developed new surgical techniques including the MITS (Minimally Invasive Tube Surgery and TAGS (Tube and Graft Sandwich technique). In addition, he developed the Trapplectomy — a trabeculectomy surgical simulation model now used as the worldwide surgical training standard for trainee surgeons.
He founded the Imperial College Ophthalmology Research Group (ICORG) and has published extensively in peer review journals. He has won two national RCOphth awards and was nominated for the HSJ Digital Innovation Award (2022).
He is regularly invited to speak and chair at national and international specialty meetings and conferences. In addition, Faisal is actively involved in teaching surgeons the latest techniques and has regularly been a faculty member at national and international courses. And is patron of the Imperial College Medical Students Ophthalmology Association.
He was the national coordinator for World Glaucoma Day for 2 years. And is a member of the European Glaucoma Society and International Society of Glaucoma surgery. He has been a volunteer with a Humanitarian charity (Humanity First) for over 15 years is now also involved in the Gift of Sight programme in West Africa. And does regular fundraising for charity including running a half marathon and marathon.