Mr. Masoud Teimory MB ChB, FRCOphth

Qualified from Bristol University in 1986 and completed his Registrar and Senior Registrar at St. George’s Hospital, Croydon Eye Unit, and Moorfields Eye Hospital. Croydon Eye Unit has been a pioneering centre for modern small incision day case cataract surgery in the UK. He was fortunate to have been trained in small incision cataract surgery early in his career.

He has also completed one year fellowship in strabismus at Moorfields and a further one year fellowship in neurophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, Florida. He has presented at national and international level, and has published in peer-reviewed journals in the area of cataract, corneal surgery and neuro-ophthalmology.

Having joined the West Sussex Eye Unit in 1997. He practices as a general ophthalmologist with subspecialty interests in anterior segment surgery (cornea and refractive) as well as strabismus and neuro-ophthalmology. He continues to have an active research interest and his collaborative genetic studies with the University of Leeds has resulted in mapping of a gene for Dominant Optic atrophy affecting a large pedigree in West Sussex.