QASMC - Key Persons

Dr Brian Leaker

Job Titles:
  • Consultant

Miss Sara Padroni

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Ophthalmologist and Cataract and Refractive Surgeon
Miss Sara Padroni is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Cataract and Refractive Surgeon with expertise and leading knowledge in Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Complex Cataract Surgery and Post Refractive lens replacement. Miss Padroni completed her medical degree in Rome in 1997 and moved to the UK the same year, getting training and Fellowships in Cataract Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital, followed by a Refractive Fellowship in Crete and a VR Fellowship at University Hospital of Leicester. She is a Member of the Royal College Ophthalmologists and of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Throughout her 20 year career, Miss Padroni has performed well over 8,500 Cataract surgeries and over 1000 Cataract refractive procedures with Multifocal, EDOF and Toric Intra ocular lenses. She joined Queen Anne Street Medical Centre in 2023 with its state of the art facilities and theatre to employ the latest technologies and techniques to ensure the best outcomes for her patients. Miss Padroni can provide you with a comprehensive range of treatments, including Cataract surgery, Refractive Lens Exchange, Implantation of ICL, YAG Capsulotomy, and eyelid lesion surgery.

Mr Vik Sharma

Job Titles:
  • Surgeon
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists
  • Ophthalmologist, Cataract and Glaucoma Specialist.
  • Ophthalmologist, Cataract and Glaucoma Specialist. Clinical Director, London Ophthalmology Centre, London
  • Previous Team Member
  • Specialist
Mr Sharma is a surgeon to royalty and the trusted choice of professional colleagues including doctors, GPs and eye surgeons. Mr Vik Sharma qualified in 1996 from St. Bartholomew's &The Royal London Hospital's Medical College while also completed a BSc in Immunology atUCL, London. Early in his career, Mr Sharma was appointed at many of London's teaching hospitals, and has also held the position of Glaucoma Specialist at King's College and St. Thomas' Hospitals. Mr Sharma holds a substantive NHS consultant post with the Royal Free London NHS Trust Hospitals. Mr Vik Sharma is a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, and a fully accredited consultant on the UK General Medical Council Specialist Register, No. 4307574. As well as completing a Glaucoma fellowship in London, he has also undergone further training in Oculo-Plastics at the Premier Facial Plastic Centre in Sarasota, Florida. He has authored many ophthalmology chapters in medical texts and in peer-reviewed journals and is a Hon.Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology for the University of London. Mr Vik Sharma remains an active member of the medical research field, presenting internationally and locally, discussing research findings and new techniques/treatments while also sitting on the Glaucoma Advisory Board for pharmaceuticals Mr Vik Sharma is the clinical lead for glaucoma, and actively offers patients a new modern service in North London, developing new laser treatments and surgical implants for better eye pressure control. Mr Vik Sharma is a specialist glaucoma and cataract consultant surgeon based in London who is vastly experienced, and is highly respected in lens, glaucoma, and eyelid surgery, as well as general ophthalmology. Mr Vik Sharma offers new non-penetrating surgical techniques and micro-tube implants, the latest micro-pulse laser treatment, micro-incision cataract surgery with multifocal lens implants and uses topical anaesthesia and on-axis phacoemulsification as part of his technique.