Mr Susmito Biswas

Susmito is the Clinical Lead for the Paediatric Ophthalmology Service at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital where he has worked as a Consultant for more than 17 years. Susmito was also Clinical Head of Division / Medical Director of the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital from 2012 until he stepped down in 2018. He is currently Chair of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists Paediatric Subcommittee. He leads the regional Retinopathy of Prematurity Service in Greater Manchester. He has an interest in paediatric anterior segment disorders, particularly corneal and external eye diseases. He jointly runs a number of highly specialized clinics including a multidisciplinary nephropathic cystinosis clinic in Manchester with his paediatric nephrology colleague, Dr Amrit Kaur. He is one of the leading paediatric corneal transplant surgeons in the United Kingdom, receiving referrals from all over the North of England into his service. He also provides a wide remit of specialist paediatric anterior segment surgery including congenital and infantile cataracts and paediatric glaucoma. He has published over 50 peer reviewed publications and written several book chapters covering a wide variety of topics in paediatric ophthalmology including the ocular management of infantile nephropathic cystinosis.

Adult cataract Paediatric Strabismus (squint) / lazy eye Paediatric Corneal and External Disease Paediatric Corneal Transplantation Developmental abnormalities of the front of the eye in children Retinopathy of Prematurity Congenital and Developmental Glaucoma in children Inherited eye diseases in children Allergic eye disease in children Congenital & developmental cataracts in children Keratoconus in children & young people