Prof. Mandeep S. Sagoo

MB, BChir, PhD (Cantab.), FRCS (Ed.), FRCOphth
Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon
Professor of Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology
Moorfields Eye Hospital & Barts Health NHS Trust, UCL
Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
Prof. Mandeep Sagoo is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon with clinical practice in the management of adult and paediatric eye tumours at Moorfields Eye Hospital, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Royal London Hospital, Harley Street and Portland Hospital, London, UK
He is also Senior Lecturer at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. Dr Sagoo graduated from the MB, PhD programme of Cambridge University, with a PhD in retinal electrophysiology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He underwent Ophthalmology residency training at Oxford and at Moorfields. He trained in Ocular Oncology, as a Fulbright Scholar, under Drs Jerry and Carol Shields at Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, USA, and Medical Retina Fellowship at Moorfields hospital, before being appointed to his current position in London in 2008.
He has written 5 book chapters and over 60 academic papers, including in the journal Nature. Honours and awards include a Fulbright scholarship to the USA, John Glyn Young Fellows Prize of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Syme Medal of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Honour Award of Greek Vitreoretinal Society, the PJ Hay Medal of the North of England Ophthalmological Society. He has recently been awarded the King James IV Professorship in Surgery by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. He is an International Member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Member of the European Society of Retina Specialists. He was also elected to membership of the Macula Society, Council Membership of Oxford Ophthalmological Congress and served as Honorary Secretary of the International Society of Ocular Oncology.
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