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Leadership, teaching and charity
Leadership, teaching and charity
From representing trainees at Moorfields to improving access to emergency eye care across the UK, and charitable work for the St John Eye Hospital Group.
Moorfields Eye Hospital · 2022–2023
Senior (Chief) Resident
Mr Than was elected Senior (Chief) Resident at Moorfields Eye Hospital, a prestigious role responsible for representing all ophthalmology trainees at the trust. He liaised with consultant and management bodies on their behalf and sat on the Specialist Services Education Committee, the Junior Doctors’ Local Negotiating Committee and the Junior Doctors’ Forum.
Quality improvement · First prize, Aylward QIPP Awards
UK Eye Casualty Map
Mr Than created an interactive map of eye casualty services, first for London and now covering the whole of the UK. It has become the primary resource for emergency eye referrals across the country, helping GPs, optometrists and NHS 111 send patients to the right eye casualty, reducing travel time and improving fair access to emergency eye care.
Leadership roles
- Chief Fellow, Vitreoretinal DepartmentMoorfields Eye Hospital. Lead representative for the vitreoretinal fellows
- Locum Consultant, Accident and EmergencyMoorfields Eye Hospital
Teaching
- Editor, Training in OphthalmologyThird edition, Oxford University Press · see the book →
- Chair, International St John Ophthalmic Case Series 4Vitreoretinal and medical retina meeting with attendees from four continents
- Medical Student Placement LeadSt Thomas’ Hospital
- Teaching Programme LeadNorth East London Ophthalmology
- PG Cert in Medical EducationUniversity of Warwick
Charity
St John Eye Hospital Group
Mr Than has supported the work of the St John Eye Hospital Group for over a decade through the Order of St John.
Honour
Officer of the Order of St John
Mr Than was appointed an Officer of the Order of St John (OStJ) for services to the Order of St John, the Order that oversees St John Ambulance and the St John Eye Hospital Group.
- Vice Chair, iYP Young ProfessionalsIn aid of the St John Eye Hospital Group, since 2026
- Regional Hospitaller, Greater London Priory GroupOrder of St John, 2021–2026. Represented the St John Eye Hospital Group to the Greater London region, reporting on its work and organising fundraising
- Co-organiser, iWalkAn international fundraising walk that has raised more than £25,000 for the St John Eye Hospital Group
- Grant co-applicantSuccessful application to the RTW Charitable Foundation for $180,000 to fund retinopathy of prematurity cameras for the St John Eye Hospital Group
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.