Mrs Indira Madgula

Mrs Madgula is Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and a Glaucoma Specialist at the Royal Bolton Hospital. She was the Glaucoma Lead at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust between 2017–25, where she was instrumental in transforming and pioneering a shared care glaucoma service that gained national recognition.

She completed her ophthalmology training at Liverpool, followed by a glaucoma fellowship at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. She was the first trainee in the UK to be selected as an examiner for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth), London. She has worked as a PLAB examiner for the GMC and now works for the Royal College of Surgeons, Glasgow , examining internationally , and for the RCOphth, London, nationally.

She takes an active interest in teaching and training medical students, optometrists, and junior ophthalmology surgeons, and holds honorary senior lectureships at the University of Manchester and Edge Hill University. She received the Dorey Lister Award from the RCOphth in 2015 for her charity work in India, and has presented at numerous national and international meetings and published in peer-reviewed indexed journals.