Miss Faye Mellington

Faye Mellington read Medicine at Oxford University and graduated with degrees in Medicine and Physiological Sciences (First class) winning several prizes and awards. After initial experience in Emergency Medicine in Australia, and Anatomy Prosection at Oxford University, she undertook specialist Ophthalmic training in London and then the Oxford Deanery. Miss Mellington?s subspecialist expertise in Oculoplastic and Orbital surgery was developed over several years through advanced subspeciality training in Oxford and Buckinghamshire and as an Oculoplastic and Orbital Fellow at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (BMEC) and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Faye Mellington is a currently a full-time Consultant Ophthalmic Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgeon at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, one of the largest facilities of its kind in Europe. She was appointed in 2015 and is the lead Orbital Surgeon. She is also an honorary Ophthalmic Consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Miss Mellington specialises in all aspects of eyelid, lacrimal (tear drainage), eye socket and orbital disease. Miss Mellington has written a number of research papers relating to Oculoplastic surgery and has presented at both national and international meetings.?

Oculoplastic and orbital surgery: lids, lacrimal (tear drainage) system and eye socket (orbit) including for example: correction of droopy eyelids (ptosis), eyebags and eyelid hooding (blepharoplasty), correction of droopy eyebrows (brow lifts), skin cancer (excision and reconstruction), thyroid eye disease including orbital decompression, dacryocystorhinostomy.