Omar Mahroo

Omar Mahroo, MD, PhD, FRCOphth, is a consultant ophthalmologist and inherited retinal disease specialist at Moorfields Eye Hospital and St Thomas? Hospital in London. He is also Professor of Retinal Neuroscience at University College London. He completed his medical degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge, followed by post-doctoral work at the Australian National University. After ophthalmology specialist training in London, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 2012. He has published more than 160 papers and several book chapters, and has received major grant funding including a ?1.1 million Wellcome Trust award. His recognitions include the Macular Society ?Rising Star of the Year? (2019) and awards for teaching excellence and public engagement (2020). In 2023, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and Fellow of the Physiological Society, and in 2025 he became Director of Standards for the International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision.