Shahram Kashani | Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon

Mr Shahram Kashani

Consultant ophthalmic surgeon, Mr Shahram Kashani BSC, MBBS, MRCP, FRCOphth, Msc, has been a substantive NHS consultant for nearly a decade specialising in complex retinal disorders. He performs high volume cataract surgery, intravitreal anti VEGF injections, intravitreal steroid implants and anterior and posterior segment laser treatment.

About Shahram Kashani

He graduated from St Georges’ Hospital Medical School in 1998. After completing the prestigious membership of Royal College of Physicians, he started a career in Ophthalmology at the North Thames London Deanery.

He was selected for two advanced fellowship training programmes in medical retina and uveitis at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust and the world-renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital. It was at Moorfields where he completed his final years of senior registrar training, providing him with a solid platform to progress to fellowship training in medical retina and inflammatory eye disease.

Over the last 3 years he has been the clinical lead at East Sussex NHS trust and the South East Eye Surgeons. He has published extensively in peer reviewed journals and has had many poster presentations in national and international meetings. He attends conferences every year to advance his knowledge and training in most recent developments in ophthalmology.

He loves to teach and has been instrumental in local training and development of nurse injectors and optometrists assessors in extended roles currently trending in many NHS hospitals. He is married to Ellie and has two beautiful daughters Ayla and Ava.

Research Highlights

Mr Kashani strives to keep up to date with the latest technology and innovations in the world of ophthalmology by attending national and international meetings on a regular basis. Throughout his career, he has been active in the area of clinical research with over 30 publications in peer journals and a similar number of posters and presentations in various national and international ophthalmic meetings.

He is an avid supporter of extended roles for Allied Health Care professionals in ophthalmology. He has been instrumental in the development and training of non-medical injectors in his current unit, East Sussex, and has been integral in recruitment and training of community opticians in management retinal disorders in a hospital setting.