Mr. Sheraz M. Daya

Mr. Sheraz M. Daya began his medical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and graduated in 1984 with an honors degree in Medicine. Following a year of internship at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, Mr. Daya moved to the United States. At the New York Infirmary-Downtown Hospital, an affiliate of New York University, he completed his residency training in Internal Medicine.

Whilst working part-time as an Emergency Room Consultant in New York, Mr. Daya undertook further residency training, in Ophthalmology, at the Catholic Medical Center, an affiliate of Cornell University. From here, Mr. Sheraz Daya went on to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, for fellowship training in Cornea, External Disease and Keratorefractive Surgery.

After completing his training, Mr. Sheraz Daya was on faculty at the Catholic Medical Centre and in practice on Madison Avenue, New York. In 1993 he returned to the United Kingdom and was appointed as Director and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon of the Corneo Plastic Unit and Eye Bank at the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust, East Grinstead.

Having been amongst the first to perform LASIK in the UK in 1995, Mr. Daya felt it was necessary to establish a 'centre of excellence' in refractive surgery. His aim was to develop a centre which would be recognised for it's first class eye surgical care, providing the utmost in preoperative and postoperative care and which would provide first class levels of training for other surgeons and nurses throughout the country. Thus, the establishment of Centre for Sight in 1996 and its LASIKVISION program.

Mr. Sheraz M. Daya has been an invited speaker at numerous international meetings and regularly presents lectures on the Cornea, LASIK and other Refractive surgery techniques. He has also developed instrumentation for LASIK and other corneal procedures.