Biography

Mr Leon Au graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1998 with an ophthalmology prize of the year. He completed 8 years of general ophthalmology training in Nottingham and Manchester before undertaking separate sub-specialty training fellowships in cornea, glaucoma and refractive surgery. He has been a dual-specialty consultant in the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital since February 2009. 

His major areas of expertise are glaucoma, cornea related problems, external eye disease and cataract . Mr Au is one of the international leader in innovative Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) and conducts clinical trails in many of these new technologies.He publishes his research regularly in peer-reviewed medical journals and he lectures in the field of cornea and glaucoma in both national and international conferences.

Special Interests: 

Glaucoma surgery

• All current glaucoma laser surgeries
• Trabeculectomy
• Glaucoma tube surgery
• istent surgery
• Hydrus stent surgery
• Xen Gel stent surgery

Corneal surgery

• Full thickness corneal transplant (PK)
• Partial thickness corneal transplant (DALK)
• Endothelial corneal transplant (DSEK)
• Pterygium surgery

Cataract surgery

• Micro-incisional cataract surgery (MICS)
• Combined cataract and glaucoma surgery
• Combined cataract and corneal surgery