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Mr Jonathan Than
Consultant Ophthalmologist at Milton Keynes University Hospital, specialising in vitreoretinal surgery, medical retina, and complex cataract surgery.
Biography
Background
Mr Jonathan Than is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Milton Keynes University Hospital. He treats conditions of the retina and vitreous, including retinal detachment, macular holes, epiretinal membranes and diabetic eye disease, and performs complex cataract and secondary lens surgery. He also looks after patients with medical retinal conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein occlusion.
He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge, graduating with triple first-class honours. As a student he won the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ Duke Elder Prize, ranking first of 486 students nationally.
He completed his specialist ophthalmology training in North London, including several years at Moorfields Eye Hospital. There he held the prestigious role of Senior (Chief) Resident, representing all ophthalmology trainees at the trust. He went on to vitreoretinal fellowships at St Thomas’ Hospital and Moorfields, where he was Chief Vitreoretinal Fellow and worked as a Locum Consultant in the Accident and Emergency department.
He is an editor of the core textbook Training in Ophthalmology, third edition, published by Oxford University Press.
Career
- 2025–nowConsultant OphthalmologistVitreoretinal Surgery and Medical Retina, Milton Keynes University Hospital
- 2024–2025Senior Vitreoretinal Clinical Fellow and Chief FellowMoorfields Eye Hospital, London
- 2023–2025Locum Consultant, Accident and EmergencyMoorfields Eye Hospital, London
- 2023–2024Vitreoretinal TSC FellowshipSt Thomas’ Hospital, London
- 2022–2023Senior (Chief) ResidentMoorfields Eye Hospital, representing all trainees at the trust
- 2017–2024Specialty Training in OphthalmologyLondon North Deanery: Moorfields Eye Hospital, Royal Free Hospital, Western Eye Hospital and North Middlesex University Hospital
Qualifications
- 2024PG Cert, Medical EducationUniversity of Warwick
- 2021FRCOphthFellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists
- 2015MB BChir, MA (Cantab)University of Cambridge
- 2012BA, Preclinical Medical StudiesUniversity of Cambridge, with Part II in Pharmacology. First-class honours in every year of the Tripos; ranked 3rd of 330 in Part IB
Clinical observerships
- Bascom Palmer Eye InstituteUniversity of Miami
- St John Eye Hospital, JerusalemPrize visit for the Duke Elder Prize
Prizes and awards
Multiple national awards
Mr Than has won multiple national and institutional awards. As a medical student he won the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ Duke Elder Prize, ranking first of 486 students nationally, and at Cambridge he received Tripos Prizes and college scholarships in every year of his preclinical studies, together with the Hargreaves Prize for Medicine and the Pharmacology Project Prize.
His work mapping eye casualty services, which began in London and now covers the whole UK, won first prize in the Aylward Quality Improvement Awards at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and his research on deep learning to detect plus disease in retinopathy of prematurity received the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ Ulverscroft David Owen Award.
Seeing Mr Than at Milton Keynes
NHS patients are seen in the Department of Ophthalmology, Milton Keynes University Hospital Community Diagnostic Centre, Lloyds Court, Milton Keynes, on referral from a GP or optometrist.