OUR WOMEN IN OPHTHALMOLOGY
Dr Rabia Moti
Dr Rabia Moti
Dr Rabia Moti
Special interests:
Refractive surgery
Cataract surgery
Glaucoma
Anterior segment
After qualifiying as a medical doctor, Dr Moti-Ghoor started her ophthalmology registrar training at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Qualifications
– Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Witwatersrand 1999
– Fellowship of College of Ophthalmi
Special interests:
Refractive surgery
Cataract surgery
Glaucoma
Anterior segment
After qualifiying as a medical doctor, Dr Moti-Ghoor started her ophthalmology registrar training at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Qualifications
– Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Witwatersrand 1999
– Fellowship of College of Ophthalmic Surgeons of South Africa 2006
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Cataract and Refractive Surgery 2020
(with Distinction)
– Member of ISBCS- International Society of Bilateral Cataract Surgery
After qualifying as a medical doctor at the University of Witwatersrand, Dr Rabia Moti started her training in ophthalmology under the expert guidance of Prof Trevor Carmichael in the Wits Ophthalmology department. It was at the three training hospitals affiliated with Wits – the St John Eye Hospital in Soweto (a wing of the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, the largest hospital in the southern hemisphere), the Helen Joseph Hospital and the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital – that her intensive training was completed, equipping her to deal with the most obscure of ocular pathologies.
After successfully completing her speciality degree, she became a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of South Africa and a member of the Ophthalmological Society of South Africa.
Coming from a family of doctors, medicine was a natural career choice for Rabia. This became evident at age 6 when she proved unable to detach herself from her very first role-play medical kit.
From her first clinical exposure to Ophthalmology as a medical student, her sights were set. She has been very passionate in her fight to leave no patient avoidably blind or visually impaired.
Eradicating cataract blindness in South Africa has been an important aspect of her becoming an ophthalmologist, and thus participates yearly in blindness prevention programmes for the under-privileged.
After completing her registrar training in 2006, she spent six years in private practice in Vryburg, North West province. She relocated back to Johannesburg at the beginning of 2012 and began her practice at Park Lane Hospital in Parktown.
Her aim is to attain the best visual outcome possible for every single patient.
At leisure Rabia spends her time with her husband and two energetic boys and the not-to-be-left-out youngest daughter.
When she is striving for academic excellence, she is indulging in her other secrets of happiness: spending time with friends, travelling, and capturing these memories with her SLR camera.
It is Rabia’s selfless and caring nature that adds greater value to her practice and her patients.
Dr Farah Moti
Dr Rabia Moti
Dr Rabia Moti
PLEASE NOTE: Dr Farah Moti is currently on secondment overseas.
In a sentence - I am a woman, an Ophthalmologist, a mum of three, President of the Ophthalmological Society of South Africa(OSSA), founding member and Secretary of Women in Ophthalmology South Africa (WOSA), and passionate about quality eye care and cataract surgery for all pa
PLEASE NOTE: Dr Farah Moti is currently on secondment overseas.
In a sentence - I am a woman, an Ophthalmologist, a mum of three, President of the Ophthalmological Society of South Africa(OSSA), founding member and Secretary of Women in Ophthalmology South Africa (WOSA), and passionate about quality eye care and cataract surgery for all patients.
I ran a regional hospital Ophthalmology department for five years - it was hard, at times it broke me, and I loved it! With a heavy heart I had to give it up because I couldn’t manage the daily travel any longer - unable to remain in the public sector as there were no options closer to home, private practice beckoned. After a few years of mentorship with Dr Chris van Niekerk in corneal surgery, its was time to create my vision of a boutique ophthalmic service I wanted to provide.
It is the return of the generalist - we have spent very long developing specialities and super-specializing them and dividing the super-specialities into tinier boxes - and I fear our boxes have become too small. So the generalist who has broad experience by seeing all sorts of pathology working in the environment I have come from, are returning to the fore - for practical and economical reasons.
I have dreams of attaining funding to start my own NGO targeted at cataract surgery and homeschooling education systems in rural areas.
Formally I am:
An Experienced Ophthalmologist with a demonstrated history of running an Ophthalmology department. A Pioneer in South Africa on Immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgeon. Special interests in cornea and refractive surgery especially keratoconus and corneal transplants/ a masters in Glaucoma/ medical retina in particular diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration / neurophthalmology is an under-utilized and under-developed super speciality that should be taken more seriously, and oculoplastics is fun! Special interests:
Bilateral cataract surgery
Diabetes
Corneal transplants
Glaucoma
Macular degeneration
Neuro-ophthalmology
Farah qualified in her undergraduate medical training and her post-graduate Ophthalmology specialist training at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Qualifications and Titles
– Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Witwatersrand 2005
- Masters of Medicine in Ophthalmology 2013 (distinction for dissertation)
– Fellowship of College of Ophthalmic Surgeons of South Africa 2013
– Member of ISBCS: International Society of Bilateral Cataract Surgery
- President-elect of the Ophthalmological Society of South Africa
From her two-week Ophthalmology clinical block, in her fifth year of Medicine, Farah knew that Ophthalmology was the path she was destined for.
She successfully completed her specialty degree and attained a distinction for her Masters Dissertation, which was a combined glaucoma-neuro-ophthalmology/medical retina focus, on the accuracy of different fundus lenses on examining the optic nerve head, and thus other retinal pathology in detail.
After qualifying, she spent time in New York during which she did an observership in medical retina, and then in the UK.
She returned to take up a consultant position at a public secondary hospital in the south of Gauteng - Sebokeng Hospital. She ran the department at Sebokeng for almost five years and helped build the department into a reputable Ophthalmic Department that is a benchmark for eye clinic modeling by the National Department of Health in their 2017 audit.
She became an immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgeon in a quest to improve cataract surgery waiting times at Sebokeng. When she began at Sebokeng the waiting time for cataract surgery was as long 18 months for some patients, at its peak, Farah managed to run and staff the department to reduce this backlog to
4 months.
She is passionate about improving the system and visual outcomes after cataract surgery - everyone undergoing cataract surgery should be treated as a refractive surgery case and the best treatment options tailored within affordable means. She cares deeply about sight-preservation for ALL patients - this varies from a patient undergoing cataract surgery and not needing to afford glasses thereafter, to performing glaucoma surgery on end-stage patients to help them maintain the best possible vision they can have.
There is value in retaining the slightest amount of vision in every patient.
All this is balanced with a wonderful family life shared with her husband and three little children.
Minette Wessels
Minette Wessels
Minette Wessels
Minette is our Opthalmic Assistant.
Her calm and peaceful demeanor brings tranquility to the practice.
She was born in Standerton, Mpumalanga and grew up in Kriel, Mpumalanga.
She has been in the medical field working in Peadiatrics for 5 years as Practice Manager and assistant.
Her experience in the Paediatric field making her the perfect
Minette is our Opthalmic Assistant.
Her calm and peaceful demeanor brings tranquility to the practice.
She was born in Standerton, Mpumalanga and grew up in Kriel, Mpumalanga.
She has been in the medical field working in Peadiatrics for 5 years as Practice Manager and assistant.
Her experience in the Paediatric field making her the perfect fit for the neonates, and the ability to being attentive to patients and their needs.
In her spare time she enjoys walks, jogging, fishing and being in the outdoors.
She has a strong interest in the ophthalmology field, keen to learn more, grow in the practice and creating a long term relationship with the patients in our practice.
Jabu Zitha
Minette Wessels
Minette Wessels
Our Practice Administrator, Jabu, keeps us running. She is indispensable to us!
Jabu roots lie in Ladysmith, Kwazulu-Natal, but she was born and bred in Soweto.
Very people-orientated,
our busy mum of 3, has been in administration for 14 years.
She has spent 12 years in health administration including 4 years in Ophthalmology.
She endeavours
Our Practice Administrator, Jabu, keeps us running. She is indispensable to us!
Jabu roots lie in Ladysmith, Kwazulu-Natal, but she was born and bred in Soweto.
Very people-orientated,
our busy mum of 3, has been in administration for 14 years.
She has spent 12 years in health administration including 4 years in Ophthalmology.
She endeavours to make the office experience as smooth as possible with her sheer dedication and caring nature. We are a digital practice and her tech-savvy nature make this a pleasure. We are in the digital age and Jabu's technical ability and growing knowledge keep us current and up-to-date.
She keeps herself healthy and fit by jogging regularly with her daughter, and going to gym.
She loves interacting with our patients and ensuring that they are comfortable and at ease. -even if that means making them a cup of tea!