Qualifications

• Certificate for Completion of Specialist Training 2001

• MD 2003 (Manchester University)

• Refractive Surgery accredited: Hansatome Microkeratome 2001, Visx S4 laser 2004, Wavefront-guided treatment 2004

• FRCOphth 1996

• MB ChB with Honours 1992(Manchester University Medical School) Awarded Hewlett Packard Prize for Overall Best Student at Final MB examination and Amit Atmul Shah Memorial Prize for Overall best student at pre-clinical examination.

• 1st Class Honours Degree (BSc) in Physiology 1989 , supported by a Joseph Holt Foundation Scholarship.

Current Position

Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and West Berkshire Community Hospital, Newbury

Honorary Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Oxford Eye Hospital, Oxford.

I was appointed to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading in 2001, working in Reading and at the West Berkshire Community Hospital, Newbury. I specialise in anterior segment ophthalmology, including cataract, corneal, conjunctival and eyelid disease. I also care for patients with all kinds of ophthalmic disease, including glaucoma, diabetic eye disease, macular degeneration and strabismus (squint). I have an Honorary Contract with Oxford Eye Hospital at the Radcliffe Infirmary, providing sub-specialist anterior segment expertise.

I am Clinical Tutor for the department, responsible for the training of our junior doctors. I am a member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress and the Cochrane Collaboration for Evidence-based Medicine.

I graduated with honours from Manchester University Medical School in 1992, and started my ophthalmology career in 1994 at Stoke Mandeville Hospital Aylesbury, moving to the Western Eye Hospital, London in 1995. From 1998 to 2001 I trained at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, becoming Senior Resident and culminating in a Fellowship in Anterior Segment ophthalmology (cataract and corneal disease).

My research interests have concentrated on cataract surgery, and in particular, on the best means of ensuring excellent unaided (glasses-free) vision following surgery. I was awarded my Doctorate of Medicine (MD) by Manchester University in 2003 for a thesis on the use of multifocal intraocular lenses in cataract surgery.