David Shahnazaryan

About

Mr Shahnazaryan has presented internationally on Cataract surgery, Corneal Transplantation and Oculoplastic Surgery. His clinical and lab-based research focused on corneal transplantation and herpes simplex keratitis. He published in high impact ophthalmology journals, more recently in American Journal of Ophthalmology.

In 2018 he joined the Armenian Eye Care Project, a voluntary mission to make quality eye care accessible to everyone in the country and to eliminate preventable blindness. In September 2018, along with his Armenian colleagues from Malayan Ophthalmological Centre, he organised a clinic for patients with complex oculoplastic and anterior segment conditions.

Education & Training

After obtaining his primary medical degree from Yerevan State Medical University in his home country of Armenia in June 2001, he underwent a 3-year residency program in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery with Professor Armen Hovhannisyan a distinguished Plastic Surgeon.

He later relocated to the Republic of Ireland in 2008 to further his qualification, residing in Dublin. Mr Shahnazaryan completed his ophthalmology residency at Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin with the Irish College of Ophthalmologists, renowned for its excellence. In 2014 he completed a refractive fellowship with Professor Michael O’Keefe, one of the pioneers of Refractive Surgery in Ireland. In 2018 he finished his latest achievement of obtaining an MD postgraduate research degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He followed this with Fellowships in Oculoplastic Surgery at St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds in 2018 and in Cornea & Anterior Segment at King’s College Hospital, London in 2019.

In early 2020 he joined the Corneal team at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK as a Locum Consultant in Cornea & Anterior Segment.