Farhan Zaidi

Farhan Husain Zaidi is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and Honorary Fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. After graduating from University College London Medical School with Honours in 1994 he was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1997 after training in clinical surgery in general, after which he started specialising in ophthalmology obtaining the Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in ophthalmology and the Membership of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2005. He was awarded a PhD in ophthalmology, surgery and vision science from Imperial College London in 2008, which included research on the light-scattering effects of cataracts in the context of searching for melanopsin-containing ganglion cell photoreceptors in humans. His higher surgical training was also based in London, the final three years of which were spent at Moorfields Eye Hospital where he worked as a registrar and in advanced sub-specialty training positions, during which time he was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 2010 before completing his higher training in 2011. In addition to practicing high volume cataract surgery and training other surgeons Farhan Zaidi has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on cataract surgery, including the relationship between surgical training, supervision and surgical outcomes. He is a reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals including for clinical studies in the field of cataract surgery