Moorfields' Stars, our annual awards, celebrate the staff, teams and volunteers who deliver exceptional care.
There are eight award categories:
- Moorfields’ star of the year
- Moorfields’ team of the year
- Moorfields Eye Charity award for innovation and improvement
- Moorfields’ leadership award
- Moorfields’ unsung hero award
- The volunteer of the year award
- Moorfields’ excellence in equality, diversity, and inclusion award
- The patient choice award
Congratulations to this year’s finalists
Moorfields’ volunteer of the year award
Nita Parekh, volunteer (Brent Cross)
Zahidur Rahman, volunteer (City Road)
Lynne Vaughan, volunteer (Bedford) - Winner
Patient choice award – individual
Elze Kancereviciute, paediatric healthcare assistant (City Road)
Leonard Karikari, assistant ophthalmic vision science practitioner (Brent Cross/Hoxton) - Winner
Panayiotis Panayiotou, research project manager (City Road)
Patient choice award – team
Ealing team (Ealing) - Winner
Chris Leak and team (Cayton Street)
Observation ward (City Road)
Moorfields Eye Charity champion award
Professor Sajjad Ahmad, consultant ophthalmic surgeon, London professor of corneal regeneration at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology - Winner
John Pearson, volunteer, Friends of Moorfields
Clare Wills, Oriel communications and engagement officer (Moorfields and UCL, City Road)
Moorfields’ leadership award
Rebecca Ellis, associate director of education (City Road)
Merel Reinink, service improvement manager (City Road)
Ana Sanchez, head of EBME (estates) (City Road) - Winner
Hannah Sandhu, deputy lead, medical imaging (Hoxton)
Moorfields’ unsung hero award
Rigz Cagang, housekeeper (Private)
Nick Grazioli, general porter (City Road)
David Long, outpatient clinic coordinator (RDCEC) - Winner
Moorfields Eye Charity award for innovation and service improvement
Rachel Thomas and the advice and guidance team (trust wide)
Clinical trials pharmacy team (City Road)
Theatre team (St George's) - Winner
Moorfields’ EDI excellence award
Anna Amer, pharmacy secretary and project manager (City Road)
Muhida Rahman, senior clinical education administrator (City Road)
Merel Reinink, service improvement manager, QSIS (City Road) - Winner
Thekshayeni Thanabalasingham, Darzi clinical leadership fellow (City Road)
Moorfields’ team of the year award
Cataract team (Queen Mary’s Roehampton)
EDI team (trust wide) - Winner
PALS volunteers team (City Road)
Moorfields’ star of the year award
Lauren Addison, clinic manager (Croydon) - Winner
Heribert Mangalus, interim lab manager (City Road)
Rory Robson, specialist optometrist (City Road)
Our winners will be announced at the Moorfields’ Stars 2025 award ceremony on 17 September.
Congratulations to all our finalists, and thank you to everyone for your dedication to our trust and commitment to delivering excellent patient care!