Clinical Fellow in Vitreoretinal Surgery (post-CCT), Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Clinical Fellow in Vitreoretinal Surgery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Clinical Fellow in Ophthalmology (Glaucoma) St Thomas Hospital London
Glaucoma Fellow Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Biography
Mr Piergiacomo Grassi obtained his M.D. from the University “Federico II” of Naples, Italy, and was subsequently appointed as Consultant Vitreoretinal Surgeon at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Greater Manchester, UK. He is currently a Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in Vitreoretinal, Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery at the same location.
Mr Grassi’s expertise lies in vitreoretinal surgery, complex cataract surgery/refractive lens exchange and glaucoma surgery. This includes treatments for complex vitreoretinal conditions such as advanced diabetic retinopathy, complex PVR-related retinal detachments, paediatric vitreoretinal surgery, refractive lens exchanges, scleral fixation of intraocular lenses/secondary intraocular lenses and the use of micro-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS). He specialises in the use of the latest micro-incisional vitreoretinal techniques such as 23G, 25G and 27G pars plana vitrectomy. He has a special interest in refractive lens exchange.
Research and publications
Mr Grassi is a Senior Lecturer for the University of Manchester. He is the current consultant vitreoretinal service lead and lead for the undergraduate medical education, for clinical clerkships and tutor for international visiting consultants/doctors in the Ophthalmology Department, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, Greater Manchester, UK. He is actively involved in research, is an e-portfolio assessor for ophthalmology trainees and delivers teaching to registrars and medical students.
He routinely trains and supervises senior fellows and junior surgeons from around the world in vitreoretinal and cataract surgery. He is a keen researcher and in addition to 40 peer-reviewed publications in high impact ophthalmic journals, he has presented as first author at various national and international ophthalmology meetings, including in the USA, in the UK and in Italy.
Having gained his medical degree, achieving honours and publishing his academic graduation thesis as a major review, he then completed his residency training in 2017, publishing his academic specialization thesis in ophthalmology as a major review in vitreoretinal surgery.
Memberships and fellowships
In 2017 Mr Grassi completed glaucoma fellowships at the world-renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital in London
He also completed two major vitreoretinal surgical fellowships at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield and at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London
