Miss Zahra Ashena : Ophthalmology

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Miss Zahra Ashena

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Cataract Full Pathway provider
I offer Bupa customers standard cataract surgery on the Full Pathway package option at Sloane Hospital (The), Shirley Oaks Hospital, Spire Hartswood Hospital .

This package includes your appointments before and after surgery, as well as your surgery and mono-focal lenses. It means you won’t use up your out-patient benefit or receive any additional bills from your surgeon (or anaesthetist, if you need one) for eligible treatment.

Please call the Bupa Eye Care team to find out more about and to pre-authorise your treatment on 0345 600 7267.

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Cataract Full Pathway provider

I offer Bupa customers standard cataract surgery on the Full Pathway package option at Sloane Hospital (The), Shirley Oaks Hospital, Spire Hartswood Hospital .

This package includes your appointments before and after surgery, as well as your surgery and mono-focal lenses. It means you won’t use up your out-patient benefit or receive any additional bills from your surgeon (or anaesthetist, if you need one) for eligible treatment.

Please call the Bupa Eye Care team to find out more about and to pre-authorise your treatment on 0345 600 7267.

Specialises in

Refractive surgery

Offers

Face-to-face consultations
Video and telephone consultations

About me

Miss Zahra Ashena is an expert ophthalmologist, with subspeciality in complex cataracts, corneal conditions and refractive surgery. She treats patients with a wide range of conditions including complex cataracts, corneal diseases like keratoconus, blepharitis and dry eye, pterygium, allergic eye disease, corneal infections, and dystrophies. She is a qualified refractive surgeon, who undertakes lens-based surgeries with premium lenses, for glasses independence.

Miss Ashena earned her medical degree with honours in 2005. With a strong interest in integrated health, she pursued a BSc degree in Holistic Medicine at the University of Westminster, which she completed in 2009. Afterward, she began her training in ophthalmology, completing her residency in the Severn and KSS (Kent, Surrey, and Sussex) deaneries. She became a qualified ophthalmologist in 2018. Following this, she undertook a two-year fellowship focused on the anterior segment of the eye at Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton. During this fellowship, she gained extensive experience in both the medical and surgical management of corneal diseases, complex cataract surgeries, and anterior segment reconstruction procedures.
Miss Ashena was appointed as a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust in 2021, where she leads the Cataract Service. She performs a high volume of complex cataract surgeries, as well as corneal procedures, including crosslinking and corneal transplants. She frequently treats patients with various corneal pathologies.

Miss Ashena is dedicated to medical education and offers mentorship to medical students interested in pursuing a career in ophthalmology. Additionally, she teaches, trains, and supervises ophthalmic trainees from North East London in both the clinic and the operating theatre.

Miss Ashena is deeply passionate about clinical research. Her research focuses on several areas, including cataract surgery, the use of premium intraocular lenses for managing astigmatism and presbyopia, corneal transplants, corneal crosslinking, dry eye conditions, and refractive surgery. She has published over 35 papers in peer-reviewed journals on these topics, many of which she has presented at national and international conferences. Additionally, she serves as an invited reviewer for several ophthalmology journals and continues to undertake research projects within her practice. Additionally, she is an examiner for the Certificate of Laser and Refractive Surgery (CertLRS) examination at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

Membership:
- Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth)
- Member of British Society of Refractive Surgeons (BSRS),

- Member of United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS),

- Member of European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS)

Areas of interest

Cataract surgery; Refractive lens exchange; Implantable contact lenses; Posterior YAG laser capsulotomy; Pterygium; Keratoconus, Crosslinking; Dry eye; Blepharitis.

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About me

Current NHS consultant posts held

Full time Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Barking, Havering, Redbridge University Hospital Trust

Research interests

cataract surgery,
the use of premium intraocular lenses for managing astigmatism and presbyopia,
corneal transplants,
corneal crosslinking,
dry eye conditions,
and refractive surgery

Publications

- Incidence and factors for pseudoaccommodation after monofocal lens implantation: the Monofocal Extended Range of Vision study.
- Management of Stromal Corneal Dystrophies; Review of the Literature with a Focus on Phototherapeutic Keratectomy and Keratoplasty.
- Amantadine-induced corneal edema: A case and literature review.
- Full-Thickness Compressive Corneal Sutures with Removal of Anterior Chamber Air Bubble in the Management of Acute Corneal Hydrops.
- Comparison of Anterior Corneal Aberrometry, Keratometry and Pupil Size with Scheimpflug Tomography and Ray Tracing Aberrometer.
- Prophylactic Use of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs after Cataract Surgery and Corneal Melt. J Curr Ophthalmol.
- Ex-vivo study on the surface quality of corneal lenticule and stroma after low energy femtosecond - Flattening of Central, Paracentral, and Peripheral Cones After Non-accelerated and Accelerated Epithelium-off CXL in Keratoconus: A Multicenter Study.
- Visual Acuity, Wavefront Aberrations, and Defocus Curves With an Enhanced Monofocal and a Monofocal Intraocular Lens: A Prospective, Randomized Study.
- Preoperative fundoscopy versus optical coherence tomography to detect occult maculopathy during cataract surgery preassessment.
- Pericardium patch graft for severe corneal wound burn.
- Descemet membrane suturing to manage recurrent graft detachment in a patient with Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty on failed penetrating keratoplasty.
- Recurring themes during cataract assessment and surgery. Eye (Lond).
- Re-Endothelialization of Bare Stroma after Descemet's Detachment due to Macroperforation during Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty.
- Wavefront aberrations causing Maddox rod effect from posterior capsular striae.
- Scanning Electron Microscopic of Intraocular Lens Pits after Nd:YAG Capsulotomy.
- Comparison of intraocular lens calculation methods after myopic laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis and radial keratotomy without prior refractive data.
- Autoimmune Dry Eye without Significant Ocular Surface Co-Morbidities and Mental Health.
- Effect of Intraocular Lens Tilt and Decentration on Visual Acuity, Dysphotopsia and Wavefront Aberrations.
- Comparison of Optical Low-Coherence Reflectometry and Swept-Source OCT-Based Biometry Devices in Dense Cataracts.
- Aerosol generation through phacoemulsification.
- Refractive lens exchange with trifocal intraocular lens in Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy.

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