I am a clinician scientist based at UCL, and a consultant ophthalmologist and retinal specialist at Moorfields Eye Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital. I am lead for the Retina-Uveitis-Oncology Module for the UCL MSc in Ophthalmology and Clinical Lead for the Moorfields Electrophysiology Service (working closely with the Head of Electrophysiology, Dr Anthony Robson). I have been an invited speaker and session moderator at national and international meetings and courses, and an invited expert in scientific advisory panels for NICE (National Institute of Health and Care Excellence). I supervise research students and post-doctoral scientists at UCL/KCL, and registrars and post-CCT fellows in retinal clinics.



I completed my medical degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2004 (achieving a First Class in each of the three pre-clinical years 1997-1999, before commencing the MB/PhD programme), and undertook post-doctoral work at Cambridge and the Australian National University in Canberra. My PhD and post-doctoral work were under the supervision of Trevor Lamb FRS, investigating light and dark adaptation of human rod and cone photoreceptors, and rod-driven bipolar cells, using in vivo electrophysiology, and modelling photopigment regeneration kinetics (Paupoo et al., J Physiol. 2000; Mahroo & Lamb, J Physiol. 2004; Kenkre et al. J Physiol 2005; Cameron, Mahroo, Lamb, J Physiol. 2006).



I worked in medical and surgical specialties in Cambridge, Huntingdon and the West Suffolk Hospital, and then commenced ophthalmology specialist training in the London Deanery in 2007, becoming Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 2012. I was appointed Academic Clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology at King's College London, joining the team of Professor Chris Hammond, in 2011, and established an electroretinography research laboratory at St Thomas' Hospital. At KCL, I supervised five KCL Masters' research projects (all students obtaining distinctions) and several undergraduate research projects at the University of Cambridge. As part of the Vision 2020 link between St Thomas' Hospital and the Muhimbili University Hospital in Tanzania, we investigated retinal imaging findings in Tanzanian optic neuropathy (published in Brain in 2013). I undertook a Medical Retina fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2014 and completed my ophthalmology specialist training in 2015.



I have been awarded research funding from the Wellcome Trust, Fight for Sight, the Birdshot Uveitis Society, Thomas Pocklington Trust, Moorfields Eye Charity and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. I received the “Rising Star of the Year” award from the Macular Society in 2019, and awards for teaching excellence (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) and for Public and Patient Engagement (NIHR BRC and Moorfields and the Institute of Ophthalmology) in 2020.