Meet Our CK Eye Surgeon
Mr. David Allamby, FRCS(Ed), FRCOphth is one of the top 3 CK eye surgeons in the world and a specialist in laser eye treatment. In addition to more than 1000 LASIK and LASEK laser surgeries, he has performed over 1000 CK radio eye treatments and has provided CK surgery training to visiting consultants from countries around the world.Mr. Allamby has more experience with the enhanced 'light touch' CK technique, which he helped pioneer, than any doctor in the world - a technique now adopted as standard by surgeons across the globe.
He graduated from Sheffield University Medical School in 1987, and has specialised in ophthalmic surgery since 1989, becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and then a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1993. He has worked at some of the United Kingdom's leading eye centres including Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. Mr. Allamby published work in ocular scar formation was undertaken at the University of Manchester, and was funded by a prestigious Wellcome Trust grant. He specialises in LASIK, LASEK, and CK which he performs full-time, and is one of a limited number of surgeons in the United Kingdom to do so. He was the first surgeon in the United Kingdomto perform CK for presbyopia, a condition requiring the use of reading glasses.
Mr. Allamby offers CK radio eye treatment, in addition to LASIK and LASEK laser vision correction, working together with each patient to determine which procedure is most suitable. He believes in the patient being actively involved through a process of full informed consent, so that they may make the best possible decision based on state-of-the-art information.
Dr. Allamby Personal Bio
Dr. David Allamby’s first experience of hospitals was at age 7 in the A&E department, after unsuccessfully trying to dissect a Coca Cola can and discovering the cutting powers of sharp aluminium. He switched to the other side of the consulting desk after graduating from Sheffield University medical school in 1987, and offered sympathy to the parents of accident prone children with inquiring minds during his stint in the emergency room.
David is a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) and has worked at the UK’s leading eye hospitals. He is now the medical director of the Horizon Eye Centre in Harley Street, London, a leading centre for refractive surgery including laser vision correction. David is one of the UK’s premier refractive and laser eye treatment surgeons and performed the country’s first CK procedure for reading again without glasses. He has helped over a thousand patients from across the UK and Europe to do without their lenses. He still prefers to drink from a Pepsi can.
Also please see unsolicited comments from patients treated by Mr Allamby at an independent eye clinics review site www.lasik-eyes.co.uk
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