Mr Leon Au – Consultant ophthalmologist
BSc, MBBS, FRCOphth

Mr Leon Au, BSc, MBBS, FRCOphth, is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon specialising in cornea, glaucoma as well as refractive surgery (LASIK, LASEK and refractive lens surgery). He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1998 with an ophthalmology prize of the year. He completed 8 years of general ophthalmology training in Nottingham and Manchester before undertaking separate subspecialty training fellowships in cornea, glaucoma and refractive surgery. He has been a dual-specialty consultant in the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital since February 2009.

His major areas of expertise are cornea related problems, external eye disease, cataract and glaucoma. He is the lead surgeon in the UK for the pioneering I-stent® (microtrabecular bypass stent) glaucoma surgery. He also has a unique expertise in micro-incisional (as compared to conventional small incision) cataract surgery.

He publishes his research regularly in peer-reviewed medical journals and he lectures in the field of cornea and glaucoma both regionally and nationally.

Special interest:

• Micro-incisional cataract surgery
• Deep lamella and full thickness corneal transplant for keratoconus
• Endothelial corneal transplant (DSEK) for corneal disease
• Pterygium surgery
• Trabeculectomy surgery for glaucoma
• I-stent® microtrabecular bypass glaucoma surgery
• Laser surgery (selective laser trabeculoplasty and diode laser) for glaucoma
• Glaucoma tube surgery for complex disease
• Anterior segment OCT scanning for assessing the intraocular structures

Contact details:
Email: info@corneaglaucoma.com
Telephone number 07849 389 184