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Specialises in

• Refractive surgery

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Masara Laginaf is an award-winning consultant eye surgeon specialising in laser and lens vision correction, cataract surgery with premium lenses and corneal surgery. She teams meticulous surgical planning and technique with cutting edge technology to achieve the best possible results for her patients.

Miss Laginaf graduated with Distinction from the world-leading University College London Medical School. She achieved advanced undergraduate ophthalmology training at Moorfields Eye Hospital and was awarded the Certificate of Merit in Ophthalmology. She completed her medical elective in cornea and refractive surgery alongside the renowned Professor Jonathan Moore in Northern Ireland.

Miss Laginaf undertook postgraduate medical and surgical training at the Royal Free Hospital, London before commencing specialised ophthalmic surgical training in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Rotation. She subsequently completed two and a half years of advanced subspecialist fellowship training including
1. Cornea, external eye disease and femtosecond laser cataract surgery at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
2. Cornea, cataract and refractive surgery at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital (UCL Partners) and OCL Vision

Miss Laginaf is one of a handful of surgeons in the UK who has been fellowship trained in femtosecond laser cataract surgery and refractive laser eye surgery.

She previously ran the tertiary corneal service and fellowship programme at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital as locum consultant ophthalmologist. In her role, she established the import of US corneal tissue for transplantation to battle national shortages, and the use of innovative amnion technology for corneal healing.

Miss Laginaf is a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth) and has attained The Certificate of Laser Refractive Surgery (Cert LRS) qualifying her to practice independent laser refractive surgery in the UK. Miss Laginaf is also an examiner for the Cert LRS, upholding the standard of refractive surgery nationally.

Areas of interest

Cataract Surgery; Premium intraocular lenses; Multifocal intraocular lenses; Presbyopia Correction; Laser Eye Surgery; LASIK; LASEK; PRK; TransPRK; Advanced Surface Ablation; Reading Vision Correction; Refractive Lens Exchange; Femtosecond laser cataract surgery;
Implantable contact lenses; Corneal Transplant; DMEK; DSAEK; DALK; Combined cataract surgery and corneal transplant; Keratoconus Management; Corneal Crosslinking; Intraocorneal ring segments;
Pterygium surgery; Anterior segment reconstruction; Corneal and external eye disease

Medical secretaries

• Suheyla Ismail
• OCL Vision 55 New Cavendish Street London W1G 9TF
• 020 3369 2020
• suheyla@oclvision.com