Mr Mohammed Rashid

Mr Rashid is a keratorefractive surgeon in Dorset who is fellowship trained in Cornea, Complex Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He studied Medicine at the University of Liverpool and graduated with prizes and Distinction in 2004. Subsequently, he underwent specialist training in ophthalmology at major eye centres around the UK, with extensive subspecialist training in cornea and cataract surgery, and external eye disease. Mr Rashid has undertaken several postgraduate fellowships in cornea, cataract and refractive surgery, and has won prizes for presentations at national refractive surgery meetings. He completed a refractive surgery fellowship under the world-renowned refractive surgeon, Sheraz Daya, at the Centre for Sight, and then two further fellowships in cornea, complex cataract and refractive surgery at the University Hospital of Southampton NHS Trust and the pioneering CorneoPlastic Unit at the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Grinstead, respectively. Mr Rashid has considerable experience in the use of multifocal, extended depth of focus and toric intraocular lenses, and a variety of corneal transplantation techniques. He is also the regional expert in external eye disease and dry eye disorders. Mr Rashid specialises in corneal transplant, corneal ulcers and infections as well as cataracts and undertakes Oculoplastic Surgery at Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital. He regularly attends cataract and refractive surgery meetings to develop the services that he provides to his clients.

Mr Rashid's main interests include: • Advanced cataract surgery • Refractive lens exchange • Revision lens surgery and add-on lenses • Implantation of premium intraocular lenses • Implantation of intraocular contact lenses • Surgical correction of aphakia • Laser refractive surgery • Cataract surgery after previous laser refractive surgery • All aspects of corneal disease • YAG laser capsulotomy • YAG laser iridotomy • Selective laser trabeculoplasty • Cornea transplant surgery (PKP, TKP, DALK, ALTK, SALK, DSAEK, DSEK, DMEK) • Combined cataract surgery and cornea transplant • Medical and surgical management of glaucoma • Trabeculectomy surgery • Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) • Combined cataract surgery and trabeculectomy • Corneal collagen cross-linking • Intrastromal corneal ring segments • Pterygium surgery and conjunctival autograft • Dry eye disease • Microbial keratitis (corneal infections) • Herpetic eye disease • Minor lid surgery • Age related macular degeneration • All aspects of general ophthalmology Other interests • Dry eye disease • Meibomian gland dysfunction • Modern advanced cataract surgical techniques • Modern advanced cornea transplant surgical techniques • Keratoconus management • Fuch’s Endothelial Dystrophy of the cornea • Ocular surface reconstruction