Mahi Muqit
Mahi Muqit, FRCOphth (; born April 1975) is a Scottish consultant ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon. He specialises in cataract surgery, diabetic eye disease, medical retina problems, intravitreal therapy, and vitreoretinal surgery.
Background
Muqit's mother, Mamtaz Begum, is a psychiatrist and his father, Mohammed Abdul Muqit, a general practitioner. They both live in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His elder brother, Miratul Muqit is neurologist and scientist.
Education
In 1995, Muqit graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London. In 1998, he qualified as a doctor from the University of Glasgow Medical School. After a year of training in accident and emergency and neurosurgery in London, he began specialist ophthalmology training at the Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology at the University of Glasgow, followed by further training at the School of Ophthalmology at Yorkshire and Humber NHS Trust.
Muqit completed two advanced vitreoretinal fellowships at the Oxford Eye Hospital and Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, and a three-year Medical Retina Clinical Research Fellowship at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, specialising in diabetic retinopathy and retinal imaging. He completed a PhD at the University of Manchester receiving his doctorate in 2011.
Career
Muqit is consultant ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. In 2013, he was appointed as a Consultant Vitreoretinal Surgeon at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, with subspecialist expertise in surgical retina, medical retina, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) treatments, and cataract surgery. He has a NHS vitreoretinal practice across three Moorfields centres within London. He has clinical and surgical NHS services at Moorfields City Road and Moorfields South (St Georges and Croydon).
In October 2016, Muqit implanted a "bionic eye" that gave a blind man some of his sight. He performed the first successful implant of Iris II system, a bionic vision restoration system developed by Pixium Vision, at Moorsfields Eye Hospital as part of a European trial for an adaptable retinal implant system. The patient aged 73 years had been blind for over 20 years due to retinitis pigmentosa, the most common cause of inherited blindness – affecting 1.5 million people worldwide. Muqit said the man could now see a difference between light and dark would learn to interpret light signals.
Muqit has researched and pioneered laser treatments for treating patients with sight-threatening complications of diabetic eye disease.
He has published 50 scientific papers in peer reviewed ophthalmic medical journals.
Muqit is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College Hospital, London, an honorary consultant at Croydon University Hospital, and an honorary senior research fellow at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth), and a member of the British and Eire Association of Vitreoretinal Surgeons (BEAVRS), the UK and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS), the Working Group for Diabetic Retinopathy with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), and General Medical Council (GMC). He is a Specialist Adviser to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for the Interventional Procedures Programme. He works as a volunteer Consultant for Helen Keller International (HKI), and was involved with two international projects based in Bangladesh.
Awards
In 2008, Muqit received a Cancer Research UK award. In 2010, he was awarded the Alcon Clinical Research Prize. In 2011, he was awarded the European Society of Ophthalmology Young Ophthalmologists Prize. In 2012, he was awarded a Societas Ophthalmologica Europaea (SOE) prize by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
Personal life
Muqit's elder brother is Miratul Muqit.
See also
- British Bangladeshi
- List of British Bangladeshis
External links
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