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Eye Specialist London
Alexander Ionides trained at University College Hospital London medical school. He qualified in 1989 passing his final MBBS having also undertaken a BSC degree in Cell Pathology at the Middlesex hospital in Mortimer St, Central London.
Following early ophthalmological training at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Kingston Hospital, he joined Moorfields Eye Hospital in 1992, passing his FRCOphth in 1994. He spent two years undertaking laboratory research at the Institute of Ophthalmology (1994-96) gaining an MD in the genetics of cataract and then stayed at Moorfields Eye Hospital and was offered a consultant post in 2001.
He is also an honorary senior lecturer and honorary consultant at St George’s Hospital, London and St George’s Hospital Medical School. From 2001 until 2010 he was Lead Clinician for the eye services at Moorfields St George’s, Tooting. Alexander Ionides has published and given numerous papers on both cataract and refractive surgery and has given presentations at national and international meetings.
About Us
Alexander Ionides
COVID19 – The clinics and operating lists are now fully up and running. Patient and staff health is treated as seriously as ever. In-patients for lens and cataract surgery are tested with swabs 72 hours prior to admission. There is social distancing and we supply masks and hand sanitisers. If you have any questions please do contact Alexander Ionides directly on a.ionides@nhs.net
The measures above make Moorfields Eye Hospital a COVID safe hospital.
During the initial COVID-19 Lockdown Mr Alexander Ionides volunteered to work as a ‘ward doctor’ at the Nightingale hospital, London.
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TESTIMONIAL
The surgery itself is fairly swift. Your eyes are kept open with some sort of clips, there is no discomfort and these are in place to ensure you don’t blink during the procedure. Your eyes are anaesthetized before the procedure commences. The epithelium is removed (quite a strange thing to see happening but no pain and no discomfort) before the laser identifies your eyes, presumably from the results taken from your original consultation, and corrects your vision. Again, quite a strange feeling, quite crackly, some say they can smell burning rubber, for me this was minimal. The eyes are washed thoroughly before the procedure finishes, a protective contact lense is fitted over the cornea which needs to be removed 4-5 days post surgery. The whole procedure takes around 2-3 minutes each eye, and is very professionally executed. Each step is counted so you know when it starts and finishes which I know I found comforting.
It’s fair to say that I’m very pleased by the end result. The actual surgery was far worse in expectation that reality, I didn’t use the supplied pain killers once post surgery, and finally was back to work in 2 weeks as normal. Vision is now slightly better than 20:20, and I recommend the process thoroughly. On one point – the ‘flap’ technique rather than the alternate process I went through – again, I can only say very happy with the result and with vision at or near that provided by my previous contact lenses after c.2 weeks, it suited me fine in terms of recovery time.
I am still in the first few weeks after my surgery and as Dr Ionides rightly informed me before the procedure one day is different than the other. Sometimes I feel like my vision is perfect and the next day I feel like it is still not there yet. I know that I will need to wait 3-4 months until after my surgery for my vision to be perfect. But this procedure has already had so much of a positive impact on my overall perception of my surroundings that I could never have imagined. I think that only people who have been wearing glasses since childhood and have this treatment can really get this feeling.
