Mike Adams

Biography

GMC Number: 6040699

Mr Mike Adams is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Optegra Eye Hospital in Guildford, Surrey, where he performs both NHS cataract surgery and private vision correction (cataract and lens replacement). He has special interests in the management of corneal and conjunctival eye disease, and cataracts.

Mike has over 20 years’ experience in ophthalmology, having qualified as a doctor at the University of Cambridge in 2002, where he also gained a Masters degree in the neurophysiology of vision. Following training at Oxford, St Thomas’ and Moorfield’s hospital he took up an NHS consultant post at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire in 2016, where he co-founded a highly productive NHS cataract unit which became a blueprint for NHS England and Scotland. He said, “we learned that the key to efficiency is a smooth patient journey on the day of surgery, rather than pushing the surgeon to operate faster. This allowed us to reduce our waiting list to just a few weeks, improve the patient experience, and maintain safe, high-quality care”.

Mike served for six years on the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ Training Committee and Council, established Optegra’s training program for NHS resident doctors, and frequently teaches at local, national and international meetings. Outside ophthalmology, Mike is happiest on a bicycle or a boat.

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