Mr Dipak Parmar

Mr Parmar completed his medical training at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals. He completed his basic surgical training at King’s College Hospital in neurosurgery and ophthalmology, following which he successfully passed the FRCOphth examination to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. He completed his higher surgical training in ophthalmology and a fellowship in uveitis at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Mr Parmar completed a clinical fellowship in cornea, external diseases and refractive surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, USA from 2003-2005. As a result of his training and research, he has authored over 27 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has written three book chapters. He is one of the few eye surgeons in the UK to have undergone state-of-the-art training in refractive surgery in a prestigious clinical fellowship program in the USA.

Mr Parmar was awarded the CCST (Certificate of Completion of Surgical Training) and specialist registration under the GMC in ophthalmology in 2003. Mr Dipak N Parmar was in continuous service as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Whipps Cross University Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, from January 2006 to August 2017. He is now in full-time independent clinical practice and also continues to offer his expertise to the NHS on a sessional basis. Mr Parmar was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (FRANZCO) in September 2011.