Mrs Katya Tambe is an adult and paediatric oculoplastic consultant at the Nottingham University Teaching Hospitals and is the current Honorary Secretary of BOPSS.
She has a keen interest in paediatric oculoplastics, facial nerve palsy and peri-ocular reconstructions. She runs a busy paediatric oculoplastic service at NUH and works closely with the Moh’s surgeons in the reconstructions following periocular tumour excisions.
In the private sector she performs surgical blepharoplasties and the full range of oculoplastic surgery, specialising in personalised aesthetic surgery with a focus on natural outcomes.
Mrs Tambe trained in India where she received the gold medal for Ophthalmology at the Diplomate of National Board examinations. She then completed her specialist training in the West Midlands Deanery. She is dual trained having done a Fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Oculoplastics Fellowships at Leicester and Moorfields. Visiting Observerships to Philadelphia and Toronto further enhanced her paediatric oculoplastic experience.
She conducts a popular annual oculoplastic cadaveric dissection course in Nottingham along with colleagues from the East Midlands. Mrs Tambe supervises the Nottingham Oculoplastic Fellowship programme with her colleagues. Her previous management posts include the joint head of service for the Department of Ophthalmology in Nottingham from 2018 to 2021, followed by Clinical Director for Ambulatory services of Nottingham University Hospitals from 2021 to 2024. She is the current Clinical Lead for Transformation of Ophthalmology in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB. Chairing the Ophthalmic League of friends Charity, of the Queens Medical Centre, is something she is very passionate about.
She enjoys the outdoors, cycling and trekking with her family and friends, her recent climbing successes have been Kilimanjaro and Kang Yatse, a 6250m in the western Himalayas.
