Project Description
I. PERSONAL
Name: A bdallah A Ellabban
Date of Birth: 23/10/1979
Professional Reg. UK (GMC Specialist Registrar: No. 7431003)
Egypt, Egyptian Medical Syndicate: No: 157
Work Address Ophthalmology Department
Hull University Teaching Hospitals,
Anlaby Rd, Hull HU3 2JZ, UK
Email ellabbanabdallah@gmail.com
Website www.ellabban.co.uk
Telephone Tel: +447459328031 Fax: +441242604327
Languages English, Arabic, Japanese
II. QUALIFICATIONS
03/2015 PhD (Ophthalmology) Kyoto University, Japan
03/2010 FRCS (Ophthalmology) RCPSG, UK
09/2009 Fellowship, International Council of
Ophthalmology
Cambridge, UK
04/2008 Master’s Degree (Ophthalmology) Suez Canal University, Egypt
10/2002 M.B.B.Ch Suez Canal University, Egypt
III. EMPLOYMENT
07/2017- current Consultant Ophthalmologist
Subspecialty interest in Medical Retina, Surgical Retina, and Complex
Cataract Surgery
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
12/2015- 06/2017 Fellowship in Medical and Surgical Retina,
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
04/2014- 11/2015 Fellowship in Medical and Surgical Retina,
Gloucestershire NHS Trust, UK
04/2010- 03/2014 PhD, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
04/2008- 03/2010 Assistant Lecturer of Ophthalmology, Suez Canal Univ., Egypt
04/2003- 03/2008 Ophthalmology Residency, Suez Canal Univ. Hospital, Egypt
IV. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCO).
• European Society Vitreoretinal Surgery (EVRS).
• British and Eire Association of Vitreoretinal Surgeons (BEAVRS).
• Association of research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).
• Japanese Retina and Vitreous Society (JRVS).
• North of England Ophthalmological Society (NEOS).
• Yorkshire Retina Society (YRS).
V. ACADEMIC & TEACHING ROLES
• Honorary Senior Lecturer – Hull York Medical School.
• Regional Lead (Yorkshire Deanery) for Ophthalmology Local Training Program (OLT).
• Royal college of Ophthalmologist Examiner.
VI. CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
My areas of clinical experience are:
– Anterior Segment surgery:
Simple and complex cataract surgery
Scleral fixation of Intraocular lenses
Cataract surgery complications
– Retinal Surgery:
Retinal detachment surgery
Diabetic eye disease complications
Macular hole
Epiretinal Membrane
Vitreomacular traction
Complex vitreoretinopathy
– Medical retina diseases:
Age-related macular degeneration
Diabetic eye diseases
Retinal vascular occlusion
Acquired & hereditary macular disorders.
Intra-vitreal Pharmacotherapy
VII. PUBLICATIONS
1. Elhusseiny AM, Sander RN, Ellabban AA, Sallam AB. Hybrid 23/25-gauge Direct Perfluorocarbon
Liquid – Silicone Oil Exchange (Retina, In press).
2. Iros M, Parolini B, Ozdek S, Ellabban AA, et al. Management of Optic disc Pit Maculopathy: The
European Vitreoretinal Society Optic Pit Study (Acta Ophthalmologica, 2022;100(6):e1264-e1271).
3. Fakhoury Y, Ellabban AA, Elsherbiny S, Attia U, Sallam A. Three-dimensional printing in
ophthalmology and eye care: current applications and future developments. (Therapeutic
Advances in Ophthalmology, 2022;14:25158414221106682)
4. Mansour HA, Uwaydat SH, Parodi M, Ellabban AA, et al. Recovery course of foveal
microstructure in the nonsurgical resolution of full-thickness macular hole (Graefes Arch Clin Exp
Ophthalmol 2022;260(10):3173-3183).
5. Uwydat S, Mansour A, Ascaso FJ, Ellabban AA, Foster R, et al. Clinical characteristics of full
thickness macular holes that closed without surgery (Br J Ophthalmol. 2022;106(10):1463-1468).
6. Siddiqui MZ, Ellabban AA, Sallam AB et al. Survey of the Use of Laser Protective Eyewear among
International Retina Specialists: A European Vitreoretinal Society Study (BMJ Open
Ophthalmology, 2021;6(1):e000647)
7. Hilely A, AU A, Freund BK, Souied E, Ellabban AA, Spaide RF, et al. Non-neovascular agerelated
macular degeneration with subretinal fluid. (Br J Ophthalmol. 2021;105(10):1415-1420)
8. Ellabban AA, Patil A, Yorston D et al. Risk of Retinal Detachment during Labour: Beliefs Versus
Evidence. (The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist. 2020;22:103-105).
9. Ahmad K, Sallam AB, Saad AA, Ellabban AA. Fully Automated Direct Perfluorocarbon Liquid-
Silicone Oil Exchange (Clinical Ophthalmology, 2020;14,4355-4358).
10. Patil A, Ellabban AA, Yorston D et al. Ocular Manifestations of Pregnancy and Labour: From
the Innocuous to the Sight Threatening. (The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, 2020;22:217–226)
11. Duddleston J, Chancellor J, Ellabban AA, et al. Optical Principles in Three-Dimensional
Vitreoretinal Surgery and Laser Protective Eyewear (Ophthalmol Retina, 2020;4(2):224-225).
12. Romano MR, Parolini B, Allegrini D, Michalewska Z, Ellabban AA (EVRS Study Group) An
International Collaborative Evaluation of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy: Different Therapeutic
Approaches and Review of Literature. The European Vitreoretinal Society Central Serous
Chorioretinopathy Study. (Acta Ophthalmologica, 2020;98(5):e549-e558).
13. Zeydanli EO, Parolini B, Ozdek S, Bopp S, Adleman RA, Kuhn F, Sallam AB, Ellabban AA,
(EVRS Floaters Study Group). Management of vitreous floaters: an international survey the
European VitreoRetinal Society Floaters study report (Eye 2020;34:825-834).
14. Abdelghany A, Sallam MA, Ellabban AA. Assessment of Ganglion Cell Complex and
Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Changes following Cataract Surgery in Patients with
Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma. (J Ophthalmol 2019: 8162825).
15. Steel DH, Donachie PHJ, Aylward GW, Laidlaw DA, Williamson TH, Ellabban AA (The BEAVRS
Macular hole outcome group) Factors affecting anatomical and visual outcome after macular hole
surgery: findings from a large perspective UK cohort. (Eye. 2021;35:316-325).
16. Ellabban AA, Patil A, Costen MT, Babar AR. Central Retinal Artery Occlusion During Vitrectomy:
Immediate retinal Revascularization Following Induction of Posterior Vitreous Detachment (Am J
Ophthalmol-Case reports 2018;5(9):38-40).
17. Ellabban AA, Barry R, Sallam A. Surgical induction of posterior vitreous detachment using
combined sharp dissection and active aspiration (Acta Ophthalmologica. 2016;94(6): e524-5).
Zarranz-Ventura J, Ellabban AA, Sallam A et.al. Prevalence of foveolar lucency with different gas
tamponades in surgically closed macular holes assessed by spectral domain optical coherence
tomography (Retina. 2018;38 (9):1699-1706).
19. Ellabban AA, Tsujikawa A, Matsumoto A, et al. Three-Dimensional Tomographic Features of
Dome Shaped Macula by Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (Am J Ophthalmol.
2013;155(2):320-328).
20. Ellabban AA, Tsujikawa A, Muraoka Y, et al. Dome-Shaped Macular Configuration: Longitudinal
Changes in the Sclera and Choroid by Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Over Two
Years (Am J Ophthalmol, 2014;158(5):1062-70).
21. Ellabban AA, Tsujikawa A, Ooto S, et al. Focal Choroidal Excavation in Eyes with Central Serous
Chorioretinopathy (Am J Ophthalmol. 2013;156(4):673-683).
22. Ellabban AA, Tsujikawa A, Matsumoto A, et al. Macular Choroidal Thickness in Eyes with Inferior
Posterior Staphyloma Measured by Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (Invest
Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2012;53(12):7735-45).
23. Ooto S, Ellabban AA, Ueda-Arakawa N, et al. Reduction of Retinal Sensitivity in Eyes with
Reticular Pseudodrusen (Am J Ophthalmol. 2013;156(6):1184-1191).
24. Muraoka Y, Tsujikawa A, Ellabban AA, et al. Paravascular Inner Retinal Defect Associated with
High Myopia or Epiretinal Membrane (JAMA Ophthalmol, 2015 ;133(4):413-20).
25. Lautredou C, Hardin J, Ellabban AA et al. Repeat Intravitreal Dexamethasone Implant for
Refractory Cystoid Macular Edema in Syphilitic Uveitis (Case Rep Ophthalmol Med. 2018;
7419823).
26. Theodoropoulou S, Ellabban AA, Johnston RL et al. Short-term safety of dexamethasone
implant for treatment of macular edema due to retinal vein occlusion, in eyes with glaucoma or
treated ocular hypertension (Graefe’s Arch Clin Experiment Ophthalmol, 2017;255(4):725-732).
27. Goyal S, Hardin J, Uwaydat SH, Ellabban AA, et.al. Review and update of cataract surgery in
the diabetic eye (Expert Review of Ophthalmology, 2017:12(5), 359-371).
28. Newcott EK, Ellabban AA, Tavassoli S, et al Intravitreal bevacizumab and triamcinolone for
treatment of cystoid macular oedema associated with chronic myeloid leukaemia and imatinib
therapy (Case Rep Ophthalmol Med. 2015:713868).
29. Ellabban AA, Tsujikawa A, Ogino K, et al. Macular Choroidal Thickness and Volume in Eyes with
Angioid Streaks Measured by Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (Am J Ophthalmol.
2012;153(6):1133-1143).
30. Ogino K, Tsujikawa A, Ellabban AA, et al. Multimodal evaluation of macular function in agerelated
macular degeneration (Jpn J Ophthalmol. 2014 Mar;58(2):155-65).
31. Ellabban AA, Hangai M, Yamashiro K, et al. Tomographic Fundus Features in Pseudoxanthoma
Elasticum: Comparison with Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration in Japanese Patients
(Eye (lond). 2012;26(8):1086-94).
32. Ellabban AA, Tsujikawa A, Ogino K, et al. Choroidal Thickness after Intravitreal Ranibizumab
Injections for Choroidal Neovascularization (Clinical Ophthalmology, 2012;6:837-44).
33. Kuroda H, Tsujikawa A, Ellabban AA, et al. Association of Focal choroidal excavations with age
related macular degeneration (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014 Sep 4;55(9):6046-54).
34. Ueda-Arakawa N, Ooto S, Ellabban AA, et al. Macular Choroidal Thickness and Volume of Eyes
with Reticular Pseudodrusen Using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography (Am J
Ophthalmol. 2014 May;157(5):994-1004).
35. Uji A, Murakami T, Ellabban AA, et al. Association between hyperreflective foci in the outer
retina, status of photoreceptor layer, and visual acuity in diabetic macular edema. (Am J
Ophthalmol. 2012;153(4):710-7).
36. Ellabban AA, Shaheen MS, Ghoneim EM, Zaki AK. Selective Use of Argon Laser Lash Ablation
for Treatment of Trichiasis (Egy Ophthalmol Society Bulletin, 2008;101(5):543-550).
In press:
37. Luiz Lima, Mansour AM, Ellabban AA, et.al Persistent Subretinal Fluid After Successful Repair of
Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment (Retina society, In press).
38. Ferrara M, Song A, Al-Zubaidy, Avery P, Laidlaw, Ellabban AA et al. The effect of sex and
laterality on the phenotype of primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (Eye [lond], In press).
Book Chapters:
39. Chapter 7: Diabetic macular oedema. A Practical Manual of Diabetic retinopathy Management,
2nd edition, ISBN: 978-1-119-05895-3”
40. Chapter 14: Cataract surgery in the diabetic eye: Pre-, intra- and postoperative considerations. A
Practical Manual of Diabetic retinopathy Management, 2nd edition, ISBN: 978-1-119-05895-3”