Jonathan Yu is a full-time Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in Glaucoma and Cataract surgery at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2010 and subsequently undertook higher specialty training in Ophthalmology in the West Midlands and North West region. He has undertaken two further years of sub-specialist fellowship training in Glaucoma surgery at both Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and is a member of the UK and Éire Glaucoma Society (UKEGS) and the European Glaucoma Society (EGS).

He has expertise in managing all types of glaucoma and anterior segment problems including complex cataract and all aspects of general ophthalmology. He runs a specialist glaucoma service for North West and beyond and his areas of interest include the surgical management of glaucoma including trabeculectomy, aqueous shunt devices, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) and glaucoma laser procedures. He performs micro-incision cataract surgery, premium lens implantation and the latest combined cataract and glaucoma stent surgery.

In his daily practice, Jonathan is heavily involved with teaching and training of junior doctors, fellows, optometrists, specialist nurses and medical students. He undertakes clinical sessions in the Emergency Eye Centre at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital where he oversees the ophthalmic team treating a wide variety of acute and emergency eye pathology. 

He is passionate about education and preventing blindness, and is involved with a global initiative to educate junior ophthalmologists (GERSO), where he chairs international webinars of experts to help educate the next generation of eye specialists. In addition, he has been on out-reach cataract programs to other countries (for example, Cambodia) to help treat patients and train fellow ophthalmologists.