Mr John Awad

Mr John Awad is a leading consultant ophthalmologist based in Shrewsbury and Macclesfield, who specialises in cataract, including refractive lens exchange, eye lid lift (blepharoplasty) and dry eyes, alongside ptosis (droopy eyes), watery eyes and oculoplastics. He privately practises at Nuffield Health Shrewsbury, Spire Regency Hospital Macclesfield, Spire Yale Hospital, Spire Healthcare Abergele Clinic and Leighton Hospital, while his NHS base is Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.   

Mr Awad is highly educated, with an MB ChB from the University of Manchester and has further medical elective experience in ophthalmology at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Trust and on the Cook Islands. He then went on to complete his post-graduate ophthalmic specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery and underwent a further fellowship in oculoplastic, lacrimal and orbital surgery at the Birmingham Midland Eye Centre.

Mr Awad has significant experience in teaching, and is a clinical supervisor and responsible for teaching ophthalmology trainees cataract and oculoplastic surgery. Furthermore, he's an examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth). 

Mr Awad's clinical research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals, while he has also been invited to review articles and present at national and international conferences. He is a full member of the British Oculoplastic Surgical Society (BOPSS), which is a national governing society that upholds excellence in research, training and promotes the highest standard of clinical practice in the field of functional and aesthetic eyelid surgery. He's also a member of the British Medical Association (BMA), the Midland Ophthalmological Society (MOS) and General Medical Council (GMC).