Overview

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Mr Tyagi is an internationally renowned surgeon and has been performing eye surgery for over 30 years. He is highly regarded by his colleagues for his clinical and surgical skills and has performed thousands of eye surgeries, including complex surgeries for patients referred by my colleagues. He has always been at the cutting edge of eye surgery and he was the first surgeon in UK to perform eye surgery using the 3D platform. This platform is now gaining popularity amongst the UK surgeons. Following an observership at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore in 2001 to study new surgical techniques he was one of the early surgeons in the UK to perform complex surgeries such as macular translocations for age related macular degeneration.

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Mr Tyagi started his training in Ophthalmology in 1987 at Goa Medical College, India and successfully obtained his postgraduate qualification. He obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 1994. After completing his Registrar training in Ophthalmology at The Birmingham & Midlands Eye Centre (BMEC) he did a Fellowship in Vitreoretinal surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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Mr Tyagi is a senior eye surgeon at the BMEC and the Midlands, and was appointed as Consultant Ophthalmologist in 2001. This is university teaching hospital and the second largest eye hospital in UK. He trains surgeons from across the world in vitreoretinal surgery and is referred patients from across the country. He has presented at international conferences, published research papers in prestigious medical journals and has led clinical trials a chief/principal investigator.

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Mr Tyagi is also a senior clinical manager at his NHS hospital and has held many managerial posts over the past many years. He is presently the Group Director for all of the Surgical services at Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. He obtained his MBA with Distinction from the Aston Business School in 2010 and is very proud of being awarded the first prize for his dissertation. He is a keen cricketer and continues to play for his hospital team. His other interests include golf and travelling to learn about different cultures and history.