Professor Omar Mahroo

Conditions I treat

Fellow of the Physiological Society (FTPS)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
General Medical Council Specialist Register
Fellow of Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
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

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
House Jobs and Foundation training, Cambridge Deanery
Ophthalmology training, London Deanery
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

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”.
135 publications in peer-reviewed journals and four book chapters.

2023: Annual Guest Lecture, Medical Ophthalmology Society of UK
2020: Award for Teaching Excellence, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
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

Last updated
15th March 2024