GP and Optom Education Webinar - Systemic Disorders and Glaucoma

Ms Sharon Heng is a multi-lingual consultant ophthalmic surgeon. She is a specialist in medical retina diseases and is currently the Clinical Lead of the Medical Retina Digital Clinics at Moorfields Eye Hospital (NHS) and the Lead of the Northwest Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Program at Ealing Moorfields. Ms Heng has been practicing Ophthalmology in excess of 15 years.

Ms Heng graduated from the National University of Singapore and came to the UK to pursue her PhD on preventative therapy in Age Related Macular Degeneration under the pupillage of Professor John Marshall (father of excimer laser in refractive surgery) and Professor Sobha Sivaprasad at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London. She underwent her clinical training at the Severn Deanery and Bristol Eye Hospital and returned to Moorfields as clinical fellow and then a consultant.

Ms Heng believes strongly in training the next generation of ophthalmologists and allied health professionals and is actively involved in developing teaching modules and programs for education within the NHS and beyond. She has travelled to China to assist in developing educational programmes for the local doctors. She was also involved in the development of diabetic retinopathy screening program and laser teaching for Chinese ophthalmologists with Professor Peter Scanlon. Ms Heng is also supervisor to several masters students at the Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL.

Ms Heng is a co-editor on the Inspire Program (medical retina) by the Royal College of Ophthalmologist and sits an editorial board member of the Eye Journal.

Ms Heng actively participates in community service and has contributed as chair the National University of Singapore Alumni from 2017 to 2023, building bridge between Singaporeans and alumnus and the British fraternity.

Ms Heng speaks English, Mandarin and understands Cantonese and Hokkien.Ms Sharon Heng is a multi-lingual consultant ophthalmic surgeon. She is a specialist in medical retina diseases and is currently the Clinical Lead of the Medical Retina Digital Clinics at Moorfields Eye Hospital (NHS) and the Lead of the Northwest Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Program at Ealing Moorfields. Ms Heng has been practicing Ophthalmology in excess of 15 years.

Ms Heng graduated from the National University of Singapore and came to the UK to pursue her PhD on preventative therapy in Age Related Macular Degeneration under the pupillage of Professor John Marshall (father of excimer laser in refractive surgery) and Professor Sobha Sivaprasad at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London. She underwent her clinical training at the Severn Deanery and Bristol Eye Hospital and returned to Moorfields as clinical fellow and then a consultant.

Ms Heng believes strongly in training the next generation of ophthalmologists and allied health professionals and is actively involved in developing teaching modules and programs for education within the NHS and beyond. She has travelled to China to assist in developing educational programmes for the local doctors. She was also involved in the development of diabetic retinopathy screening program and laser teaching for Chinese ophthalmologists with Professor Peter Scanlon. Ms Heng is also supervisor to several masters students at the Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL.

Ms Heng is a co-editor on the Inspire Program (medical retina) by the Royal College of Ophthalmologist and sits an editorial board member of the Eye Journal.

Ms Heng actively participates in community service and has contributed as chair the National University of Singapore Alumni from 2017 to 2023, building bridge between Singaporeans and alumnus and the British fraternity.

Ms Heng speaks English, Mandarin and understands Cantonese and Hokkien.

Faisal is one of the leading eye surgeons in the UK performing highly complex cataract surgery, as well as innovative combined cataract and glaucoma surgeries. He is known to be at the cutting edge of technologies and was the first surgeon in the world to use a new glaucoma device in 2020, called the EyePlate, and is also one of the few surgeons in Europe to be using a new minimally invasive glaucoma device the iSTAR MINIject and uses the latest available intra-ocular lenses for cataract surgery.

Faisal was one of the very few eye surgeons in the UK to continue to operate on high risk patients during both Covid-19 lockdowns.

He is regularly invited to speak and chair at national and international specialty meetings and conferences.

In addition, Faisal is actively involved in teaching surgeons the latest techniques and has regularly been a faculty member at national and international courses. His novel technique on teaching glaucoma surgery is used worldwide.

His papers are regularly published in scientific journals and he is also an author on new glaucoma surgeries on the national Royal College of Ophthalmology UK award winning NHS e-learning website.

Faisal has won prizes for his work nationally and regionally.

He was the national coordinator for World Glaucoma Day for 2 years. And is a member of the European Glaucoma Society and International Society of Glaucoma surgery.

He has been a volunteer with a Humaitarian charity (Humanity First) for over 15 years is now also involved in the Gift of Sight programme in West Africa. And ran his first marathon this year.