All surgeons working for Laser&Lens are recognised Consultant Eye Surgeons.

This is the best way of ensuring that you are being looked after by someone who is eminently qualified and comfortably able to perform your eye surgery.

It is a legal requirement in the UK that any doctor must have their names entered on the GMC's Specialist Register before taking up any substantive, honorary or fixed term NHS consultant posts.

This is achieved by completing an exhaustive training programme resulting in the prestigious award of a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCT).

What does this mean? Well ultimately, our surgeons are amongst the very best in the UK. Do not even consider surgery with someone who does not have this qualification. You should not trust your sight to anyone other than our highly qualified surgical teams.

Prof. Sunil Shah MBBS, FRCOphth, FRCS(Ed), FBCLA

Sunil is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Birmingham Heart of England Foundation Trust , Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre , City Hospital Birmingham, Honorary Consultant at Birmingham Children's Hospital . He is also an Honorary Professor at The University of Ulster and Aston University , Birmingham.

He specialises in complex corneal and refractive surgery. He independently developed the laser eye surgery technique now called LASEK and was the first person to use it in Britain and continues to pioneer this technique.

He has had well over 50 publications in peer reviewed journals, as well as various book chapters. Sunil is Section Editor for 2 major journals: British Journal of Ophthalmology and Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology and is on the Editorial Board for Contact Lens and Anterior Eye and Ophthalmology Times. He also regularily reviews articles for suitability for the following journals: British Journal of Ophthalmology, Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Contact Lens and Anterior Eye,
Ophthalmology, Eye, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Journal of Refractive Surgery, Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

He is also the Principle Editor & E Tutor for the E-learning course in Refractive surgery for the University of Ulster.

Sunil is an Examiner for The Fellowship British Contact Lens Association and also for the Refractive Assessment for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists .

He is past President of the British Society for Refractive Surgeons and is presently a Member of Council for The British Contact Lens Association .

He continues to be on the Refractive Working Party for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and a Specialist Advisor to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence .

Sunil continues to take an active role in research, his main interest being the difference corneal thickness can make when measuring pressure inside the eye. This can make a big difference when diagnosing glaucoma.

Sunil lives in Birmingham with his wife and three children. He is very keen on playing cricket, tennis and skiing (this he does at the drop of a snowflake).