Mouhamed Al-Aqaba

Mouhamed Al-Aqaba is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, with a subspecialty in cornea, refractive and anterior segment surgery. Dr. Al-Aqaba graduated in medicine (MBChB) from the University of Basrah, Iraq, earned a PhD in ophthalmology from the University of Nottingham in 2011, and completed ophthalmology specialty training at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, followed by a fellowship in cornea, ocular surface and anterior segment surgery at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre. Qualifications include FRCS (Glasg) and FRCOphth. Before joining Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare in 2024, Dr. Al-Aqaba was a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and Cornea Specialist at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust and, earlier, a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Academic Ophthalmology Unit at The University of Nottingham. Research has focused on corneal nerves in health and disease, neuropathic corneal pain and infectious keratitis.