Mr Mark Wilkins

About Mr Mark Wilkins

Mark Wilkins MD FRCOphth MA MB BS Cert LRS is a consultant ophthalmologist specialising in corneal transplant, cataract, laser eye surgery and lens. He is the former head of the Corneal Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital and an honorary lecturer at University College London, having been a consultant since 2006. He is known to be a highly skilled surgeon and likeable mentor to budding consultant surgeons.

Mr Wilkins studied medicine at Oxford and completed his clinical years at University College Hospital (UCH), London. He graduated and went on to train as an ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, within the coveted North London Deanery training programme. He then went on to complete two years of super-specialised and competitive cornea, cataract and refractive surgery fellowships at Moorfields Eye Hospital, before becoming a consultant ophthalmologist.

Career highlights

Mark has an active interest in research, having done a research fellowship at the Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL with over 90 publications in laser refractive surgery as well as cornea and cataract surgery to date. He has set up multiple randomised controlled trials in cataract and glaucoma surgery, including being the chief investigator for the FACT trial, looking at femtosecond laser use in cataract surgery. A pioneer in the field, he set up the Keratoprosthesis service at Moorfields, using artificial corneas to treat corneal blindness. He is now pushing boundaries and challenging dogma in corneal transplant surgery by practicing novel suture-less, posture-less, endothelial corneal transplant surgery.

An active member of several societies, he often presents at national and international conferences, including European and American Societies of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (UKISCRS, ESCRS, ASCRS), American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). He also holds the Certificate in Laser Refractive Surgery from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (Cert LRS).

Consultation locations

Mr Mark Wilkins can be consulted at:

• Our central London clinic at 55 New Cavendish Street