Mohamed Mohyudin Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon Clinical Practice

Yorkshire-based · Operating internationally · GMC 7039600

Mr Mohamed Mohyudin

  • Celebrity Eye Surgeon
  • Golfer
  • Film writer
  • Humanitarian

Mr Mohyudin is a double fellowship-trained consultant eye surgeon with more than 5,000 cataract operations behind him. Based in Yorkshire, he travels to operate where the client is — and keeps a life outside the theatre that is rather harder to summarise. This is the part the clinic website does not tell.

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Mr Mohamed Mohyudin, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon
Mr Mohamed Mohyudin — MBChB, BSc (Hons), MSc, FRCOphth
  • 5,000+ Cataract operations
  • 500+ Squint corrections
  • Thousands Eyelid procedures
  • 17 yrs In practice

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The Short Version

A surgeon is not only a surgeon

Mr Mohamed Mohyudin graduated from the University of Leeds in 2009, took fellowships in two of ophthalmology’s most exacting subspecialties, and has been a substantive consultant at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust since 2020. He has performed more than 5,000 cataract operations and more than 500 squint corrections, and he teaches the surgeons coming up behind him as College Tutor for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

That is the version that appears on a referral letter. It is accurate, and it explains almost nothing about him.

The rest of it involves a golf course at first light, an unreasonable number of films watched with a surgeon’s attention to composition, a seat at premieres he still finds faintly absurd, and several weeks a year spent restoring sight in places where the operation is otherwise unavailable. This site is about that half.

Based
Yorkshire
Practice
International
Fellowships
Two
GMC
7039600
The full story

The Celebrity Practice

Why the famous go quiet about their surgeon

Oculoplastic surgery sits on the border between the functional and the aesthetic. The eyelid occupies two square centimetres of a face and carries an outsized share of how that face is read.

Get eyelid surgery slightly wrong and the result is not a poor scar; it is a different person. Which is why the same habits that govern a good operating list — plan everything in advance, decide nothing under pressure, stop earlier than you think you should — turn out to be the habits that make a surgeon worth recommending quietly.

Across more than 5,000 cataract operations, more than 500 squint corrections and thousands of eyelid procedures, that meticulousness has become the thing colleagues mention first.

It is also what draws a particular kind of patient. His combination of precision and aesthetic sensibility has made him a considered choice among high-profile individuals — including a notable number of fashion models, for whom facial symmetry is not vanity but livelihood, and for whom a millimetre of asymmetry is an occupational problem rather than a cosmetic one.

Discretion is the other half of the offer, and it is not negotiable: no photographs, no named testimonials, no confirmation that a given person was ever seen at all. It is the reason the list looks as it does, and the reason none of it can be described here.

The operation is the easy part. The difficult part is deciding, honestly, whether it should happen at all.

Mr Mohamed Mohyudin

Passions

Life outside the clinic

The habits that make a surgeon good at surgery rarely switch off at the theatre door. His are simply pursued elsewhere.

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Golf

He plays regularly and seriously, and is open about why the game holds him. Golf demands the three qualities that also govern a good operating list: sustained focus, patience with a process that cannot be rushed, and a tolerance for the fact that precision is the only thing that counts. A shot is either struck correctly or it is not, and the course is entirely indifferent to intention.

It is, he says, the closest thing he has found to the theatre outside it — a few hours in which nothing exists beyond the next deliberate movement.

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Cinema & Culture

A lifelong student of visual storytelling, he is drawn to cinema for reasons that are recognisably professional: how a frame is composed, where the eye is directed, what a director leaves just outside the light. A surgeon spends a career learning to read a visual field; the interest is less a departure than a continuation.

His standing means his name appears with some regularity on the guest list for exclusive red-carpet premieres — evenings he enjoys chiefly for the work being shown. Bringing a surgeon’s sharp eye to the silver screen, Mohamed occasionally shares his unique perspectives on cinema as a guest writer and reviewer for Celluloid Score.

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Humanitarian Work

Sight, restored where it is least affordable

Cataract remains the largest single cause of avoidable blindness in the world, and the operation that reverses it takes under half an hour. In much of the world it is simply unavailable — not because it is difficult, but because there is no surgeon within reach and no realistic way to pay for one.

Mr Mohyudin serves as an advisor to World Aid Network, a UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation funding sight-restoring eye surgery, cancer treatment and emergency disaster relief across Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia. The charity works through locally licensed clinicians and accredited partner hospitals rather than running clinics of its own — an approach he regards as the only one that leaves anything behind.

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Two cataract operating stations running in parallel on a funded eye surgery list

Press & Media

Enquiries, features and appearances

For interviews, editorial commissions, panel appearances and speaking engagements — and for anything to do with film.

Media enquiries

Interviews, comment and editorial commissions, handled directly.

Celluloid Score

Guest writing and film criticism — a surgeon’s eye on the screen.

The clinical practice

Treatments, clinics and appointments at mohamedmohyudin.co.uk.

In Brief

Questions people ask about him

The short answers — who he is, where he works, and why “Mr” is not a typing error.

Who is Mr Mohamed Mohyudin?

Mr Mohamed Mohyudin is a UK consultant ophthalmic surgeon (GMC 7039600) based in West Yorkshire. He is double fellowship-trained, in paediatric ophthalmology and strabismus and in oculoplastic surgery, and has been a substantive consultant at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust since 2020. Outside the operating theatre he is known as a celebrity eye surgeon, a golfer, a film writer for Celluloid Score and an advisor to the charity World Aid Network.

Why is he “Mr” rather than “Dr”?

Because he is a surgeon. In the UK, surgeons traditionally revert from “Dr” to “Mr” on gaining surgical fellowship, so the title marks a qualified surgeon rather than a missing medical degree. He graduated MBChB from the University of Leeds in 2009 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth).

Where is he based, and where does he practise?

He is based in West Yorkshire. His NHS post is at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; privately he consults at Spire Elland Hospital in Elland, near Halifax, and is a partner at Newmedica in Bradford and Huddersfield. Where a client cannot travel to Yorkshire, arrangements can be made abroad by working alongside locally licensed surgeons in accredited hospitals.

What does he specialise in?

Squint (strabismus) and paediatric eye surgery, oculoplastic surgery of the eyelids, orbit and tear-drainage system, and cataract surgery. He has performed more than 5,000 cataract operations, more than 500 squint corrections and thousands of eyelid procedures, and he trains ophthalmic surgeons as College Tutor for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

Why is he described as a celebrity eye surgeon?

Because of who chooses him. His combination of surgical precision and aesthetic judgement has made him a considered choice among high-profile individuals, including a notable number of fashion models. He never names, confirms or discusses any patient — discretion is a professional obligation applied identically to everyone — so the description is about his practice, never about an identifiable person.

Is he registered with the General Medical Council?

Yes. He holds full registration with a licence to practise under GMC reference number 7039600, which anyone can check on the GMC’s online register at https://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/7039600.

How do I book an appointment with him?

Through his clinical practice site, mohamedmohyudin.co.uk, which handles consultations, treatment information and prices. You can also telephone Spire Elland Hospital on 01422 324000 or Newmedica on 01274 940 519. This site handles press, editorial and charity enquiries only.

What charity work does he do?

He is an advisor to World Aid Network, a UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation funding sight-restoring eye surgery, cancer treatment and emergency disaster relief in Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia. His role is clinical: advising the eye programme on which operations are worth funding, what a partner hospital needs to deliver them safely, and whether the money bought what it was meant to.

Does he write about film?

Yes. He writes occasionally as a guest writer and film reviewer for Celluloid Score, bringing a surgeon’s interest in composition and visual attention to cinema. On the medical side he advises and reviews for Eye Health Guide and contributes to HealthAnswers.

The Clinical Practice

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Consultations, treatment information, pricing and referrals are handled entirely through the practice site, with clinics at Spire Elland Hospital and Newmedica in Bradford and Huddersfield.

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