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Mr Teifi James

Name:
Mr Teifi James DO, FRCP, FRCS, FRCOphth.
Practising at:
Spire Elland Hospital
Specialties:
  • Ophthalmology
    • Cataract surgery
    • Corneal and external eye disease
Special clinical interests:

Dry Eye Syndromes
Meibomian Gland Dysfunction
Evaporative Dry Eye
Behçet Disease
Wegener Granulomatosis
Sarcoid
Iritis & intermediate uveitis
The management of eye problems associated with systemic diseases
Cataract Surgery in patients with uveitis

Research interests:

Factors affecting compliance with dry eye treatments
Dry eye and blepharitis management
Vitamin D deficiency in uveitis
Immunogenetics of inflammatory eye diseases

Current NHS and /or university posts:
Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Consultant Ophthalmologist, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Year of first medical qualification:
1983
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:

Fellow Royal College of Physicians of London
Fellow Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh
Fellow Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Member British Contact Lens Association
Member North of England Ophthalmological Society
Member Yorkshire Retinal Society
Founder Friday 13th Club

 
Contact Details 
Telephone number to make a private appointment:
01422 324041 or 324020
Personal email address:
 
Background Information 
Professional profile:

Mr Teifi James graduated in medicine from St Mary’s, Paddington in 1983 and subsequently trained in general medicine, diabetes and endocrinology, obtaining his MRCP examination in 1988. He then went on to specialise in ophthalmology and was senior house officer at Windsor with Mr Jack Kanski for 2 years, prior to gaining his FRCS and FRCOpth in 1991. He was a registrar and subsequently senior registrar in ophthalmology in Leeds and Bradford and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research training fellowship in 1993. He spent three years doing laboratory research into the immunology and immunogenetics of uveitis and Behcet’s Disease.

He was appointed to a part-time consultant post at St James’s University Hospital specialising in uveitis and inflammatory eye disease in 1996. Subsequently in 1997 he obtained a further consultant post at Royal Halifax Infirmary, again specialising in uveitis and inflammatory eye disease.
Presently he runs the Yorkshire Regional Uveitis and Inflammatory Eye disease service at the Royal Halifax Infirmary.

Mr James was elected FRCP in May 2001 and has published a book on medical ophthalmology and has several publications on inflammatory eye disease and Behcet’s Disease.

In 2004 Mr James developed The MGDRx EyeBag, a re-usable warm compress. Since then He has developed special expertise in the management of Dry Eye Syndromes and Blepharitis. He runs specialist Dry Eye Clinics for private patients at the Spire Hospital Elland West Yorkshire.

Mr James gives frequent Dry Eye lectures and workshops both internationally and throughout the British Isles. He is much sought after as a speaker on these matters.

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Mr Teifi James

Mr Teifi James Ophthalmology Consultant, Elland, West Yorkshire, private hospital specialist.

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