Current NHS consultant posts held
Consultant Ophthalmologist - Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS (Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and Victoria ACH)
Research interests
The Effect of Socioeconomic Deprivation on Severity of Glaucoma at Presentation in Scotland. (Glasgow- Aberdeen Glaucoma and Deprivation Study 2006) Socioeconomic factors and their relationship to stage of presentation of Glaucoma. Ng W, Agarwal P, Sidiki S, McKay L, Townend J, Azuara-Blanco A. Submitted to BJO for publication 2008.
Medical Advisor to Ethnic Minorities Eye Health Project 2008-2011 –Glasgow (RNIB sponsored)
Shared Lead investigator – UK Glaucoma Siblings Project. 2008-2009. (RNIB sponsored)
Local Collaborator in EAGLE Study (MRC funded World Multicenter study looking at Early Lens extraction in Angle Closure Glaucoma) 2009-2013) Published Lancet October 2016
Local Collaborator - TAGS Study (UK Multicentre study on Trabeculectomy in Advanced Glaucoma)
Personal interests
Tennis
Golf
Languages
(Additional) Languages spoken
- Italian
- Fluent
- Urdu
- Conversational
- Arabic
- Basic
- Spanish
- Basic
Publications
1. SE Coupland, S Sidiki, BJ Clark, K McClaren, P Kyle and WR Lee.
Metastatic choroidal melanoma to the contralateral orbit 40 years after enucleation. Archives of Ophthalmology. 1996; 114:751-756.
2. S S Sidiki and WN Wykes. Systemic diclofenac sodium to maintain
mydriasis during phacoemulsification. Journal of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery. 1998;24(5):648-8.
3. D Orr, S S Sidiki, CNJ McGhee. Factors that influence patient
choice of an excimer laser treatment center. Journal of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery. 1998;24(3): 335-40.
4. Sidiki SS. Krachmers spots in Corneal graft rejection. (Photo Essay)
Eye News. Vol. 4 (1) July/Aug 1997.
5. Sidiki SS, McFadzean RM and Barlow P. Visual Outcome following endoscopic third ventriculostomy for non-communicating hydrocephalus in congenital aqueduct stenosis. (abstract) Neuro-ophthalmology. 2001;25(1-2): p101.
6. Sidiki SS, R Hamilton and G Dutton. Lesson of the Week. Fear of the dark in children: is stationary night blindness the cause? British Medical Journal 2003; 326:211-212.
7. Salvi S, S Sivakumar, Sidiki SS. Use of disposable prism tonometry in routine clinical practice. Eye. 2005 Jul;19(7):743-6.
8. Carrim ZI, McKay L, Sidiki SS, Lavy TE. Early intervention for the ocular and neurodevelopmental sequelae of Fetal Valproate Syndrome. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 2007; 43(9):643-45.
9. WS Ng, Agarwal PK, Sidiki S, McKay L, Townend J, Azuara-Blanco A. The effect of socio-economic deprivation on severity of glaucoma presentation. BJO 2010; 94:85-87
10. Cowan L, Sidiki SS. Optimising Glaucoma Referral. Optometry Today 2011; Vol 51:11:40-44
11. Siempis T, McTaggart Y, Sidiki SS. Ciliary Body Melanoma manifesting as uniocular ocular hypertension and early cataract. Clin Exp Optom 2017 DOI:10.1111/cxo.12610
12. Siempis T, Younus O, Croghan, C, Makuloluwa A, Montgomery D, Sidiki S. Long-term outcomes of Ahmed Glaucoma Valve surgery in a Scottish cohort of patients with refractory glaucoma. Cureus 2023 Mar 7;15(3): e35877. Doi: 10.7759
Courses offered to GPs
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