Sheraz M. Daya
MD FACP FACS FRCS(Ed) FRCOphth
Quick Facts…
1996 to date: Medical Director, Centre for Sight
1994-2011: Director & Consultant, Corneo Plastic Unit & Eyebank, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
Training
Medical School
Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, Graduated 1984 with Honors Degree
Internship & Residency
Internship: Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Residency: Internal Medicine (1985 to 1988), NY Downtown Hospital, New York, NY
Residency: Ophthalmology (1988 to 1991), Catholic Medical Centre (Cornell University), New York, NY
Fellowship: Cornea, Anterior Segment & Refractive Surgery University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA & Richard Lindstrom, Phillips Eye Centre, Minneapolis
Mr Daya’s Story…
After completing his training in the United States, Mr Daya was Director of Cornea and External Disease at the Catholic Medical Centre and in practice on Madison Avenue, New York. In 1993 he was appointed Director and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon of the Corneo Plastic Unit and Eye Bank at the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Trust, East Grinstead.
In 1995 Mr Daya performed the first the LASIK laser vision correction procedure in the UK and became a well known trainer of the procedure. Dissatisfied with the limitations of eye care provision in private hospitals, he felt compelled to establish a “Centre for Excellence” intended to provide patients with the world class personalised medical and surgical eye care as well as set the standards for laser eye surgery. Anticipating refractive surgery (surgery to correct shortsight, farsight and astigmatism) would become a popular procedure, it was important to him that the centre became a leading authority in any matter concerning the cornea and front of the eye. Mr Daya founded Centre for Sight in 1996 and under his leadership and expertise Centre for Sight has grown phenomenally now with 3 locations.
Centre for Sight has a phenomenal reputation for providing exemplary eye care with eye surgeons visiting internationally to observe or even to have procedures performed on themselves or their family by Mr. Daya. The Centre draws referrals from all over the world, including Peru, USA, Canada, the Middle East, Africa and the Far East and the patients include Royalty, Presidents and Prime ministers!
Wikipedia
Mr. Daya has pioneered a number of techniques and has been involved in the area of Stem Cell Transplantation and tissue engineering. His techniques and outcomes have been reported in the international press and revealed on TV as the surgeon who restored the sight of Katie Piper, the celebrity who was the subject of a viscous acid attack. As a result of his expertise, Mr Daya is constantly invited to lecture at international meetings and lectures on a variety of topics including femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery, Cornea, Stem cell transplantation, LASIK and other Refractive surgery techniques. He has also developed instrumentation for LASIK and other corneal procedures that are in regular use worldwide.
Under Mr. Daya’s leadership, Centre for Sight continues to lead the UK in advances in technology and eye care. Mr. Daya introduced femtosecond lasers to the UK in 1994 and this “blade-free” laser surgery is now the gold standard for LASIK. Mr. Daya has again introduced the Victus Femtosecond laser for cataract and Laser Lens Exchange. This procedure although expensive is safer and more accurate and is rapidly becoming the gold standard for cataract and lens replacement surgery.
Mr. Daya has also invented a series of innovative ophthalmic instruments for use in Corneal Transplantation, Collagen Cross Linking (CXL), Laser refractive Surgery and more recently femtosecond laser cataract surgery. He has devised a new technique called “Trans-lens Hydrodissection” which enables easy removal of the lens during femtosecond laser cataract and lens surgery. Bausch and Lomb introduced the “Daya Trans-lens Hydrodissection Cannula” at the American Academy of Ophthalmology 2012. A video of the procedure can be seen by clicking here…
Valued for having a “crystal ball”, Mr Daya is a consultant to several companies in the ophthalmic industry, Mr. Daya thus has access to technology before most others in the world and patients coming to Centre for Sight can be assurred they are at all times receiving world class diagnostics and treatment.
Fellow – Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (elected 1997)
Fellow – American College of Surgeons
Fellow – American College of Physicians
Fellow – American Academy of Opthalmology
Fellow – International College of Surgeons
Board Member – The Cornea Society, USA (Nov 2003 to date)
Council Member – United Kingdom & Ireland Society of Refractive and Cataract Surgery (1995 to 2001)
Council Member – British Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (1999 to 2002)
Committee Member – Cornea Committee, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Committee Member – Refractive Surgery Sub-committee, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Committee Member – Cornea Sub-committtee, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Committee Member – Medical Advisory Board, Eye Bank Association of America
Committee Member – International Relations Committee, Eye Bank Association of America (1994 to 2001)
Committee Member – Ocular Tissue Advisory Group, United Kingdom Transplant
Committee Member – Ocular Tissue Standards and Audit Group, UK Transplant
Committee Member – Refractive Sub-committee, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, UK
Member – Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Member – International Society of Refractive Keratoplast (ISRS)
Member – Ocular Microbiology and Immunology Group
Member – Paton Society, USA
Member – Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Committee Member – Refractive Surgery Sub-committee, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Committee Member – Cornea Sub-committtee, European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Committee Member – Medical Advisory Board, Eye Bank Association of America
Committee Member – International Relations Committee, Eye Bank Association of America (1994 to 2001)
Committee Member – Ocular Tissue Advisory Group, United Kingdom Transplant
Committee Member – Ocular Tissue Standards and Audit Group, UK Transplant
Committee Member – Refractive Sub-committee, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, UK
Member – Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Member – International Society of Refractive Keratoplast (ISRS)
Member – Ocular Microbiology and Immunology Group
Member – Paton Society, USA
Member – Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Member – British Society of Refractive Surgery (BSRS)
Member – The Cornea Society (previously Castroviejo Society), USA
Chief Medical Editor – Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today – Europe
Section Editor – Cataract and Refractive Surgery “CME in Opthalmology”
Section Editor – Refractive Eye News
Reviewer – EYE, Journal for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Reviewer – CORNEA, International Journal of the Castroviejo Society
Reviewer – British Journal of Ophthalmology
Reviewer – Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Reviewer – Ophthalmology
Reviewer – American Journal of Ophthalmology
- Collaborating Professor, University of Oviedo, Spain
- Visiting Professor University of Oviedo, Spain 2013
- Visiting Professor, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2004
- Tom Casey Lectureship (Inaugural), Dublin, Ireland, 2004
- Choyce Medal Lecture, UKISCRS 2009
- W. Bruce Jackson Lecture, Canadian Ophthalmogical Society, Montreal 2013
- Power List 2019 by the Ophthalmologist – listed in the 50 outstanding champions of ophthalmology in the world and in the category of Top 10 Surgical Pioneers
- Power List 2018 by the Ophthalmologist – listed in the top 100 most influential people in the world of ophthalmology
- The Good Doctors Guide 2018 by the DailyMail as one of the best cataract surgeons in the UK
- 2018 Muslim Power 100 list nominated for Healthcare Excellence
- The Fyodorov Medal at the 32nd International Congress of the Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery (HSIOIRS) in Athens, Greece 2018
- Whitney G Sampson lecture by American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) in New Orleans 2017
- Silver Award 2010, Dept. of Health, UK for his contribution to the NHS and Ophthalmology in UK
- Senior Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology 2009 For his contribution to Ophthalmology and the American Academy of Ophthalmology
- South East NHS Best of Health 2008 Award for Leadership for Improvement
- Bronze Award 2005, Dept of Health, UK for his contribution to the NHS and Ophthalmology in UK
- Achievement Award, American Academy of Ophthalmology 1999 For his contribution to Ophthalmology and the American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Femtosecond laser-assisted lamellar keratoplasty (FSLK) for anterior corneal stromal diseases. R Almousa, KE Samaras, S Khan, DB Lake, SM Daya. International ophthalmology 34 (1), 49-58 . Google Scholar
- Comparison of anterior capsulotomy techniques: continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis, femtosecond laser-assisted capsulotomy and selective laser capsulotomy. S Daya, SP Chee, SE Ti, R Packard, DH Mordaunt. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019. Google Scholar
- Meibomian gland inversion: under‐recognized entity. WF Siah, K Boboridis, P Tan, AS Litwin, SM Daya, R Malhotra, 2019. Google Scholar
- Parameters affecting anterior capsulotomy tear strength and distension. SM Daya, SP Chee, SE Ti, R Packard, DH Mordaunt. Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery 45 (3), 355-360, 2019. Google Scholar
- Conjunctival–limbal autograft. SM Daya. Current opinion in ophthalmology 28 (4), 370-376, 2017. Google Scholar
- Femtosecond laser–assisted cataract surgeries reported to the European Registry of Quality Outcomes for Cataract and Refractive Surgery: Baseline characteristics, surgical procedure, and outcomes. M Lundström, M Dickman, Y Henry, S Manning, P Rosen, MJ Tassignon,. Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery 43 (12), 1549-1556, 2017. Google Scholar
- Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, Scotland
- University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- University of Vallodolid, Spain
- In The World
- Science of Technology
- Finance and Industry
Centre for Sight is recognised by a number of private medical insurance companies and Mr Sheraz Daya is a registered provider to:
- Alliance
- Aviva
- AXA
- Cigna
- Exeter Friendly (Part of AXA)
- Healix
- Saga
- Simply Health
- WPA
Centre for Sight is owned by Ad Astra Capital, British Virgin Islands and a company of the Ad Astra Settlement a discretionary Trust whose beneficiaries are Mr. Sheraz Daya, his wife Marcela Espinosa Lagana and their family.
Medical Centre International Ltd. is a company wholly owned by Mr.Sheraz Daya. THe company is involved in healthcare provision, specifically eye care and activities include provision of healthcare facilities operated by Centre for Sight.
Sheraz Daya as a key opinion leader has considerable involvement with the ophthalmic industry as a consultant. Including his interest in Medical Centre international Ltd. he has a financial interest in the following companies. The code indicates the nature of the interest and key to the code is found in a separate table.
| Company | Code |
| Abbott Medical Optics Inc. | S |
| Bausch + Lomb | C, L |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec | C |
| Clarvista | C |
| Ellex | L |
| Excellens | C, O |
| LinCor Biosciences | C |
| Lumenis | C |
| Medicem | C |
| Nidek, Inc. | C,L |
| Omeros | C |
| Physiol | L |
| PRN | O |
| STAAR Surgical | C |
| Strathspey Crown | C |
| Scope Pharmaceuticals | C |
| Rayner | C |
| Code | |
| C | Consultant / Advisor |
| E | Employee |
| L | Lecture Fees |
| O | Equity Owner |
| P | Patents / Royalty |
| S | Grant Support |