Faruque Ghanchi MB, MS, FRCS

Faruque Ghanchi is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK since 1999. He has been a Senior Consultant and leading medical Retina Specialist reputed for his work in the UK and abroad. He pioneered the medical retina service at Bradford, establishing the first centre to provide PDT for macular degeneration in Yorkshire.

He has served on the Rt. Honorable Secretary of State’s advisory panel for vision standards for driving, worked as Expert on the National Institute of Clinical Excellence appraisal committees, the examination committee and the scientific committee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. He has worked as an Associate Sub-Dean for Admissions for the University of Leeds Medical School.

He has Co-Founded the Yorkshire Retina Society which has been promoting education and research in retinal disorders over a decade. He has been Examiner for the FRCOphth and FRCS exams. He is the Vice Chair of the National Institute of Health Research Ophthalmology Clinical Research Network and is the National Lead for Industry studies for the NIHR CRN Ophthalmology. He has many publications in peer reviewed journals to his name.