Practice:
NHS: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Private: Harley Street, London
King's Private, London
Cataract, Glaucoma, Refractive Surgery
Senior Lecturer - King's College London
(University of London)
MBBS, BSc(Hons.) AKC FRCOphth FWCRS CertLRS FBCLA PGCert(Med Ed..)


Biography
Obeda Kailani is Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon with a special interest in glaucoma and cataract surgery. He has a subspecialist expertise in minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (iStent, Preserflo, Endoscopic surgery), complex cataract and glaucoma surgery (trabeculectomy, aqueous shunts) and novel laser treatments. He is based in London and takes pride in his patient care.
Passionate about his patients care, he has trained extensively in glaucoma, cataract and anterior segment disease, allowing him to have a positive impact on his patients’ quality of life by offering premium intraocular lenses, toric lenses, as well as multifocal lenses.
He is a Lecturer at King’s College London and leads the undergraduate training at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. He received merits for teaching from both King’s and UCL. He is a primary investigator for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial in glaucoma and has published and presented internationally on glaucoma and anterior segment disease.
Mr Kailani completed both his undergraduate and medical degrees at King’s College London, and completed his ophthalmology surgical training in King’s, St.Thomas’ and Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. He then completed two fellowships at Western Eye Hospital (Imperial College) and Guy’s and St.Thomas’ till he took up his consultant position at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Education & Training
2004-2010
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
MBBS
Guy's King's and St.Thomas'
School of Medicine, London
2007-2008
Bachelor of Science - Physiology
BSc(Hons.)
King's College London
2007-2010
Associateship of King's College
AKC
2012 - 2020
GMC - Certificate of Completion of Training - CCT
7 years of training Completed at renowned centres in London including:
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust, Western Eye Hospital - Imperial College NHS Trust,
Guy's and St.Thomas', and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Recent Research Publications
A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials in the management of neovascular glaucoma: absence of consensus and variability in practice. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2023
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One-year surgical outcomes of the PreserFlo MicroShunt in glaucoma: a multicentre analysis. Br J Ophthalmol. 2022
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Awards
- 2020 - 2022 -
King's Instant recognition award
- 2019 -
Imperial Make a Difference Award