Miss Meena Arun

Consultant ophthalmic surgeon

Private

NHS

Meena Arun

Age ranges treated

  • Adults (age 16 and above)

  • Children (age 0-15)

Qualifications / Professional memberships

  • CertLRS, Royal College of Ophthalmologists 2025

  • FRCOphth, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, 2018

  • MBChB (Honours), BSc (Honours 1st Class) Pathology,

  • Examiner and Assessor of Independent Prescribers for the College of Optometry

  • Examiner and Tutor for Imperial College School of Medicine, intercalated BSc (Global Health)

  • Member of BIPOSA

  • Member of ESCRS

  • General Medical Council – Specialist Register

Current NHS / University post

  • Consultant Ophthalmologist in Paediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus and Cataract (in children and adults), Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

  • Strabismus teaching faculty, MSc Clinical Ophthalmology and MSc Orthoptic (pre-reg) programme, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

  • Tutor and Global Health BSc Examiner, School of Medicine, Imperial College London

Medical training

  • TSC Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus and Adult Cataract, Moorfields Eye Hospital, 2021

  • Further Post-CCT high-volume Cataract and Complex Strabismus surgical training, Moorfields Eye Hospital, 2022

  • Further Post-CCT Paediatric Cataract subspecialisation at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, 2022

  • Ophthalmology Specialty Training, North Thames Deanery (Moorfields Eye Hospital, Western Eye Hospital, Hillingdon and Central Middlesex Hospitals) 2014 – 2020

  • Medical Undergraduate training and Intercalated Degree, University of Manchester 2006 - 2012

  • Academic Foundation Programme specialising in Surgery, Imperial College London 2012 – 2014

Research interest / experience

  • Paediatric eye conditions relating to Autism & ADHD diagnoses in children

  • Allergic eye disease in children

  • Paediatric cataract and paediatric uveitis outcomes, including peri-operative intravitreal steroid treatment

  • Congenital cataract (in children and adults)

  • Complex cataract surgery, clinical outcomes and informed consent National Guidelines

  • Retinopathy of prematurity and artificial-intelligence/deep-learning image analysis

  • Ocular imaging in Myopic eyes (Short-sightedness in children and adults)

  • Adult strabismus – managing the full range of condition within adult strabismus

  • Paediatric ophthalmology, with particular interest in paediatric strabismus and paediatric cataract and paediatric general ophthalmology – all presentations including amblyopia, myopia and refractive error medical and surgical management, paediatric blepharitis and allergic eye disease

  • Lecturer for MSc Orthoptic (pre-reg) programme, UCL/Institute of Ophthalmology

  • Previous Lecturer for MSc Ophthalmology, Strabismus Module (incomitant squints), UCL/Institute of Ophthalmology

Languages spoken

  • English, Tamil

Private treatment

Miss Meena Arun also provides private care

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Last updated
14th September 2026