Mohamed Bahgat

Mohamed Bahgat Goweida is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Alexandria University and a Consultant in Cornea and External Eye Diseases at Alexandria Main University Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt. He is also a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the National Treatment Centre in Inverness, United Kingdom. He graduated from the Alexandria Faculty of Medicine in 1995, completed ophthalmology residency and a master's degree in 2000, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2004, completed his PhD at Alexandria University in 2006 and also holds the FRCOphth. After a lectureship at Fayoum University, he returned to Alexandria University in 2011 and became Professor in 2020. In 2017 to 2018 he was a locum consultant at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. His work focuses on lamellar keratoplasty, especially DALK and DMEK, and he set up an osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP) service in Egypt after training at Sussex Eye Hospital.