Ms Bushra Thajudeen

Ms Bushra Thajudeen is a Consultant Ophthalmologist in Royal Gwent Hospital, Aneurin Bevan Health Board. She is the clinical lead for cornea and also specialises in complex cataract surgery and anterior segment reconstruction. 

Ms Thajudeen graduated from medical college, Trivandrum, India and did further post graduate training in Ophthalmology at the Regional institute of Ophthalmology, Trivandrum. She then moved to UK, where she did her Ophthalmology training in Wales deanery. On completion of training, she did Fellowship in glaucoma at Bristol Eye Hospital followed by Fellowship in cornea and anterior segment surgery under the world renowned Prof H S Dua and his team at the Queens medical centre, Nottingham. 

Ms Thajudeen started as Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in cornea and glaucoma at Royal Gwent Hospital in 2020. She is currently the cornea lead for the ABUHB. 
She set up the corneal cross linking service in Royal Gwent Hospital and offers this treatment to young keratoconic patients in ABUHB and also those referred from nearby health boards.

Ms Thajudeen's areas of surgical expertise include cataract surgery, surgical correction of astigmatism, anterior segment reconstruction, scleral fixated and Iris fixated intra ocular lenses, full thickness and lamellar corneal grafts for corneal scars and corneal dystrophies, limbal stem cell transplants, glaucoma surgeries including  trabeculectomy and glaucoma drainage device implantation, various types of conjunctival flaps and other treatments for ocular surface pathologies.

Ms Thajudeen is also an honorary senior lecturer in Cardiff university and is a course tutor in anterior segment module of Cardiff university.

Phacoemulsification and artificial IOL implantation 
Toric IOL implantation to correct astigmatism
Anterior segment reconstruction
Scleral fixated and Iris fixated Intra ocular lens for correction of Aphakia
Diagnosis and management of Keratoconus including corneal cross linking
Full thickness and lamellar corneal transplants - DMEK, DSAEK, DALK, PKP, Limbal stem cell transplants 
Management of chronic ocular surface disorders 
Amniotic membrane transplant 
Removal of pterygium 
Removal of band keratopathy
Conjunctival flaps 
Glaucoma surgery - Trabeculectomy, Selective laser trabeculoplasty, Glaucoma drainage device implantation.
Other ocular surface surgeries

Consultant ophthalmic surgeon with special interest in Cornea and Glaucoma
Corneal cross linking, corneal grafts

MBBS, Diploma in Ophthalmology 
MS in Ophthalmology 
FRCOphth
 

Fellow of Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Bowman’s Club
Committee Member - South West Ophthalmology Society 
MDU

Outside work, Ms Thajudeen is a keen artist and enjoys oil painting and palette knife painting and was involved in many charity events to auction her paintings to raise money for the charity.

Consultant Ophthalmology at Royal Gwent Hospital.

1. Second Prize Welsh Ophthalmic Case Presentation Competition ‘Diabetic Retinopathy referral – Think outside the eye’ – 2016

2. Second Prize Welsh Ophthalmic Case Presentation Competition – ‘A Blind Child’ - 2015

3. Third  Prize / Special mention – Kestrel cup ‘Risk factors for raised intra ocular pressure after vitrectomy and intra vitreal gas injection’ – 2014

4. First Prize – Welsh Ophthalmic case presentation competition – ‘Masquerading masquerade’ – 2014

5. First prize - Ophthalmology quiz for post graduate trainees, KSOS annual state conference, Kochi, India 2006

1. Endothelitis - A presentation of Acanthamoeba keratitis - B K Lakhani, B Thajudeen, I Jawaid, M S Attzs, V S Maharajan. Cornea 2021 Jun1;40(6):769-773
2. Pseudo-Vossius ring after Descemets stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty. M Popiela, B Thajudeen, V Kumar. DJO, Volume 25, Number 1
3. Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery in October and nonagenarians. P Nidamanuri, M Popiela, B Thajudeen, V Kumar. ARVO Investigative ophthalmology and visual science. July 2018, Vol 59,438.
4. Corneal ulcers and Contcat lens keratitis, Practical Emergency Ophthalmology by Taylor and Francis- edited by Amy-Lee Shirodkar and Gwyn Samuel Williams.
4. ‘Practical Uveitis’-Understanding the grape’ – by Gwyn Williams and Mark Westcott- Illustration by Bushra Thajudeen- published in November 2017 by Taylor and Francis.
5. ‘Evaluation of a novel system of wet AMD clinic referral triaging’ – Poster at Royal college of ophthalmologists annual congress 2017.