Modern management of corneal ectasia Prof Sunil Shah Midland Eye
This lecture delivered by Prof Sunil Shah provides an in depth review of the techniques for management of keratoconus and pellucid marginal degeneration with specific reference to new developments.
Professor Sunil Shah qualified from St. Georges Hospital Medical School and completed his post-graduate training in Torquay, Exeter, Manchester, and Nottingham.
He has been a Consultant at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre since 2000 where he runs a complex cornea and cataract service, and his professorial chair is at Aston University.
Professor Shah was a Section Editor for the British Journal of Ophthalmology and Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology and is a reviewer for Eye, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and Journal of Refractive Surgery.
He has over 150 publications in peer reviewed journals.
Professor Shah also provides specialist advice to NICE and MHRA and is a representative for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists to the British Standards Institute.
He is a past President of the British Society for Refractive Surgery and for the British Contact Lens Association.
Professor Shah is the Chairman of Medical Advisory Board for the Khmer Sight Foundation a Cambodian charity.
He is one of the founders for the training initiative / charity Global Education and Research Society of Ophthalmology (GERSO).
In 2014 and 2018, he was voted as being in the top 100 most influential people in Ophthalmology around the world.
Professor Shah is the 2020 winner of ASCRS Winning Pitch, for his UVC invention.
Sunil continues to take an active role in research which include:
• Novel ways of solubilising oily drugs
• Novel intraocular lenses
• Refractive outcomes of lens surgery
• Corneal thickness and pressure measurement
• Ultraviolet light for treatment of corneal infections