A reckoning with racism

8 February 2023
Winter 2023

Evelyn Mensah, Consultant Ophthalmologist, talks about the steps she is taking to encourage equality.

With a dynamic professional life that includes active interests in research, education and clinical work – not to mention her role as Clinical Lead for Ophthalmology at Central Middlesex Hospital and co-lead for the North West London Clinical Reference Group – it would be hard to imagine how Consultant Ophthalmologist Evelyn Mensah could fit much more into her life. But some issues, she says, are too important to ignore.

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