Omar Mahroo
NHS secretary:
Marilyn Gilbert-Campbell
Consultant telephone:
020 7566 2016
Area(s) of specialism / subspecialism:
- Inherited retinal disease
- Medical retina
Year of first medical qualification:
2004
Location of initial medical training:
University of Cambridge
Further key experience:
- BA Hons Medical Sciences (first class awarded every year), University of Cambridge 1996-1999
- Honorary MA, University of Cambridge, 2003
- PhD (retinal physiology; supervisors, TD Lamb FRS and the late RHS Carpenter), University of Cambridge, 2001-2004
- Clerkship (general medicine, oncology, surgery), Yale University School of Medicine, 2004
- Post-Doctoral research scientist, Australian National University, 2004
- Academic clinical lecturer, King’s College London (St Thomas’ Hospital), 2011-2014
- FRCOphth 2012
- Post-Graduate certificate in academic practice for Higher Education, 2013
- Medical retina fellowship, Moorfields Eye Hospital, 2014-2016
Date joined Moorfields:
2014
Membership of professional /national/regional bodies:
- General medical council (specialist register)
- Fellow of Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Member of quality review group, Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Member of UK Eye genetics group
- Member of International Society for the Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV) and British Society for the Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (BRISCEV)
- Member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
- Trustee of Duke Elder Fund
Current NHS/university posts, whether full/part time, and starting year:
- Associate Professor, University College London (since 2018)
- Retinal Disorders module coordinator and examiner for MSc clinical ophthalmology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (since 2018)
- Wellcome clinician scientist, University College London (since 2017)
- Honorary consultant ophthalmologist, St Thomas’ Hospital (since 2017)
- Honorary senior lecturer, King’s College London (since 2017)
- Clinical ophthalmologist lead for electrophysiology, Moorfields Eye Hospital (since 2016)
- Research Affiliate, University of Cambridge (since 2005)
- Research Supervisor (for undergraduates at University of Cambridge since 2003; MSc students at KCL since 2012; PhD students since 2014)
Other professional achievements:
- 2019: “Rising Star of the Year” Award from Macular Society (UK).
- 2019: Invited Clinical expert for NICE scientific advisory panel
- 2019: Research grants from Moorfields Eye Charity
- 2018: Elected member of US-based Macula Society.
- 2017: Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship Award from Wellcome trust (£1.1 million)
- 2016: Research grant from Fight for Sight and Thomas Pocklington trust
- 2015: King’s College London ACL best paper prize
- 2014: Research grant from Fight for Sight and Birdshot Uveitis Society
- 2014: King’s College London ACL poster prize
- 2014: UKISCRS best refractive paper
- 2013: Royal Society of medicine ophthalmic trainees’ meeting poster prize
- 2012: Research grant from Fight for Sight
- 2011: European Vision and Eye Research (EVER) section prize for best paper
- 2008: Royal Society of Medicine ophthalmic trainees’ meeting poster prize
- 1999: University of Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College – clinical scholarship and Walter Myers Exhibition for medicine
- 1998: University of Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College – senior scholarship
- 1997: University of Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College –scholarship
- Since 2013: multiple invited lectures at local, national and international meetings
Research interests:
- Application of retinal electrophysiology to understand inherited retinal diseases, mechanisms of myopia development and retinal impairment in neurological diseases.
- Chief Investigator for multi-centre portfolio study, “recording retinal responses in health and disease”.
- PI for research study, “ocular phenotype of Alport syndrome”.
- >60 publications in peer-reviewed journals and two book chapters.
Languages spoken:
- English