Mr Saurabh Jain

Job title

Consultant ophthalmic surgeon

Contact details

Tel: 020 7794 0500 ext 31332

Related services

Ophthalmology

Location

Royal Free Hospital

Biography

Saurabh Jain is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Free London NHS Trust and honorary consultant at UCLH. He is an honorary associate professor at UCL and the academic lead for year two MBBS and senior personal tutor for UCL medical school. He has a special interest in adult strabismus, paediatric ophthalmology, and cataract surgery. 

He is committed to teaching and training and has mentored several residents and fellows over the years. He has a keen research interest in strabismus and ocular motility and has authored multiple research papers, textbook chapters, and books. He regularly presents his research at meetings worldwide and has given several invited lectures. 

He is the senior international examiner for the royal college of ophthalmologists (RCOphth) and also examines for the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) and the European Board of Ophthalmology (EBO). He is a council member of the European Strabismus Association (ESA) and sits on the research and adult strabismus committees of the American Association of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS).

He is involved in running a busy full time clinical service at the Royal Free Hospital, Whittington Hospital, and UCLH, which includes clinical work, training junior surgeons and allied clinical professionals, research, and educational activities.

GMC number

5196594

• Watts P; Child maltreatment guideline working party of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists UK, Watts P, Adams G, Ainsworth J, Biswas S, Bonshek R, Fleck B, Goyal R, Jain S, Leitch J, Long V, Lloyd C, Luthert P, Maguire S, Mulvihill A, Rathod D, Simmons I, Tandon A, Taylor D, Williams C, Woodruff G. Abusive head trauma and the eye in infancy. Eye (Lond). 2013 Aug 30.
• Kim MJ, Jain S.What makes a good operation great? Factors determining patient satisfaction with local anaesthesia in cataract surgery. Eye (Lond). 2013 Jun 7.
• Chiu M, Hennings C, Jain S. Is ophthalmic follow-up of premature infants necessary: a national survey. JPOS 2013.
• Kontos A. Mitry D. Althauser S. Jain S. Acute serous macular detachment and cystoid macular oedema after uncomplicated phacoemulsification using standard dose subconjunctival cefuroxime. Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology. 2013
• Ritchie A, Colapinto P, Jain S. The Psychological Impact of Strabismus: Does the angle really matter? Strabismus 2013
• Koay S, Jain S, Cropley I, Petrushkin H, Beynon H. Endogenous endophthalmitis and liver abscesses. Acute Med. 2012;11(1):25-7.
• Petrushkin H, Oyewole K, Jain S. Botulinum Toxin for the Treatment of Early Onset Esotropia in Children with Cerebral Palsy. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2012 Mar 1;49(2):125.
• Tan N, Jolly R, Jain S. Fornix incision in Strabismus Surgery: The Park’s technique revisited. Journal of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. 2011 Sep 27;48:e55-7