Personal Profile
He graduated from the University of Sheffield School of Medicine in 2002 after which he completed house jobs in diabetes, renal medicine, orthopaedics and general surgery at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield.
He subsequently trained in neurosurgery at Hope Hospital in Manchester after which he has done 10 years of specialist ophthalmic training in the West Midlands including an advanced subspecialist glaucoma fellowship at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre. He was appointed as a substantive full-time consultant at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre in 2015.
Mr Pandey has a large complex glaucoma practice and gets tertiary referrals from other cataract and glaucoma surgeons across the East and West Midlands and beyond. He currently leads the virtual glaucoma service at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre and was the previous Designated Individual for the Human Tissue Authority, where he was responsible for ensuring the safety of all transplants procedures.
He is also a Royal College of Ophthalmologists College tutor for ophthalmic specialist trainees, trains subspecialist glaucoma surgeons and leads simulation training for surgical trainees in the West Midlands. As an advanced sub-specialist trainer he has been on the faculty of the angle closure, trabeculectomy and iStent Masterclasses and has helped train many glaucoma surgeons on the above techniques and diseases.
His research interests include, novel drug deliveries for glaucoma and minimally invasive glaucoma surgery and he is a principal investigator on a major international drug trial.