25 JUN 2021 · It's been a long time! Welcome back to the episode 003 of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Podcast. In this episode, we speak with Dr Naz Raoof, a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Royal London Hospital specialise in paediatric and neuro-ophthalmology. Through this informal conversation with Dr Raoof, we talked about her medical student life at University of Oxford. Why she choose ophthalmology as her specialty; Why she decided to specialise in paediatric and near-ophthalmology; her experience being as a consultant at Moorfields as well as her overseas fellowship experience in New Zealand. We hope you will enjoy this episode. If you like this podcast, please like, comment, subscribe, and share it with others! Dr Naz Raoof: Dr Raoof is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Royal London Hospital. She trained as a doctor at the University of Oxford. She has undertaken two further subspecialty Fellowships at Moorfields Eye Hospital (UK) and in Auckland (New Zealand). She is currently a member of the Paediatric Subcommittee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (UK). Dr Raoof has a longstanding interest in teaching and training within Ophthalmology and currently holds the post of Honorary Clinical Senior Teaching Fellow at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, she is the programme director of Ophthalmology MSc. Dr Raoof has a longstanding interest in clinical research. As an Ophthalmologist in training, she has been awarded the Ivor Levy Prize at the Royal College of Ophthalmology Annual Congress (2013) for the best poster on a neuro- ophthalmology topic and also the Ian Fraser Cup by the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress (2014) for the best poster on a clinical topic. Mr Yuan Gao (host): Yuan Gao is a postgraduate student studying ophthalmology at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. He and other students from UCL Institute of Ophthalmology founded the first student-lead ophthalmology society, the UCL Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences Society in 2020. He graduated from optometry school in 2020 and starting he’s optometry training at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in July, 2021. He initiated the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology podcast in March 2021. He is passionate about advanced practice in optometry, eye care transformation, and medical/optometry education. He believes a stronger connections must be built between eye care professions. It will take the eye care service into the next level which will benefit billions of patients across the UK.

19 MAY 2021 · Welcome back to the second episode of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Podcast. In this episode, we speak with Miss Rashmi Mathew, a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She talked about her day to day life as a surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, her view on patient's education, and how does she keep productive. Miss Mathew is also passionate about medical education. As a medical educator, she involves in variety of teaching and educating next-generation medical/non-medical healthcare professions. She talked about what is important to herself being a medical educator, why connecting with students is important, her proudest moment as a medical educator, and her advice to other medical educators and medical students. We hope you will enjoy this episode. If you like this podcast, please like, comment, subscribe, and share it with others! Miss Rashmi Mathew: Miss Rashmi Mathew qualified with distinction from Guy’s Kings and St Thomas’ school of Medicine in 2003. She completed her 2-year fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2013 and joined the Glaucoma Consultant Faculty in 2013. Miss Rashmi Mathew is also the Deputy Director for Undergraduate Education and New Consultant and Resident Leadership Training Lead at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Medical Education, Institute of Health Sciences Education, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary, University of London and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at University College London. Rashmi has a keen interest in Glaucoma Patient Education and has been running Education events since 2011. She has won many awards for her Education work: - Finalist for the Leadership category at the Moorfields Stars awards, Apr 2019. - Winner of Schwartz Community Award, 2019 - Winner of Aylward QIPP award, Moorfields Eye Hospital, 2017 - Winner of Audience Choice award, for my work on flipped classroom learning, UCLP education conference, 2017 - Winner of Excellence in Medical Education award (team category), UCL, 2016. - Winner at UCL TiME Conference, Glaucoma Patient as Teacher Symposium, 2016. - Winner of Academy of Medical Education award for my work of eye drop administration education for glaucoma patients, 2014. Rashmi has a number of research interests, which include wound healing following glaucoma surgery, effect of cataract surgery on trabeculectomy surgery, utilization of big data in medical education, patient and public involvement in the medical curriculum. She is serves on the council for the Ophthalmology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit and the Medical Women’s Federation. Mr Yuan Gao (host): Yuan Gao is a postgraduate student studying ophthalmology at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. He and other students from UCL Institute of Ophthalmology founded the first student-lead ophthalmology society, the UCL Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences Society in 2020. He graduated from optometry school in 2020. He initiated the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology podcast in March 2021. He is passionate about advanced practice in optometry, eye care transformation, and medical/optometry education. He believes a stronger bridge must be built between eye care professions. It will take the eye care service into the next level which will benefit billions of patients across the UK.

4 MAY 2021 · The UCL Institute of Ophthalmology podcast is finally here! In this very first episode, Dr Pearse Keane from Moorfields Eye Hospital is joining us to chat about his day-to-day life being a consultant ophthalmologist as well as a scientist. He shared some very useful advise, for example, on how to keep productive? He said: never work with people you don't like when he was asked to give a piece of advice to current students. Click start playing and find our more! Dr Pearse Keane: Pearse is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital and an associate professor at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. In 2016, He initiated a formal collaboration between Moorfields Eye Hospital and Google DeepMind, with the aim of developing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for the early detection and treatment of retinal diseases. In August 2018, the first results of this collaboration were published in the journal; Nature Medicine. In October 2019, He was included on the Evening Standard Progress1000 list of most influential Londoners. Host by Mr Yuan Gao: Yuan Gao is a postgraduate student studying ophthalmology at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. He and other students from UCL Institute of Ophthalmology founded the first student-lead ophthalmology society, the UCL Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences Society in 2020. He graduated from optometry school in 2020. He initiated the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology podcast in March 2021. He is passionate about advanced practice in optometry, eye care transformation, and medical/optometry education. He believes a stronger bridge must be built between eye care professions. It will take the eye care service into the next level which will benefit billions of patients across the UK.