The EMJ Podcast | Episode 223
This week, Jonathan is joined by Mandeep Sagoo, Professor of Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK. The pair explore ocular oncology and Mandeep’s groundbreaking work developing a digitally engineered 3D printed ocular prosthetic.
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Mandeep Sagoo is Professor of Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon with a subspecialist interest in adult and paediatric eye tumours at the London Ocular Oncology Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the London Retinoblastoma Service at Royal London Hospital.
Having graduated from Cambridge University, he undertook his residency in Ophthalmology at Oxford and then Moorfields Eye Hospital. His Fellowship training was in Ocular Oncology, as a Fulbright Scholar, under Dr Jerry Shields and Dr Carol Shields at Wills Eye Hospital and Medical Retina Fellowship at Moorfields. He holds over 20 academic awards and prizes, including the Gedge Prize of Cambridge University, John Glyn Young Fellows Prize of Royal Society of Medicine, and the PJ Hay Medal of the North of England Ophthalmology Society. He is also a Member of Macula Society, Council Member of Oxford Ophthalmological Congress and has served as Honorary Secretary of the International Society of Ocular Oncology.
Recently he delivered a Ted Talk after leading the clinical team that fitted a fully digitally engineered 3D printed ocular prosthetic– a world first.
Timestamps:
- 00:00 – Introduction
- 04:17 – Mandeep’s journey into ophthalmology
- 04:17 – Mandeep’s journey into ophthalmology
- 08:06 – Pioneering work in Philadelphia, USA
- 11:15 – Lessons from the US healthcare system
- 13:30 – Churchill’s Fellow Award
- 16:25 – Naevi and the role of ocular coherence tomography
- 20:00 – How to diagnose malignancies
- 30:38 – Creating prosthetic eyes following enucleation
- 34:06 – 3D printed prosthetics
- 39:28 – Retinoblastoma
- 42:45 – Innovations in molecular medicine
- 44:42 – Three wishes for ocular oncology
