Background
Childhood and school in Leicester
Junior house officer posts in renal medicine and neurosurgery and ophthalmology training in Plymouth, London, Singapore and Edinburgh
Appointed Consultant 1991, specialising in cataract surgery and medical retina diseases

Research aims and interests
The purpose of CCBS eye research is to explore how the signs of dysfunction and disease in the eye might yield valuable insight into parallel processes occurring in the brain.

Specifically we plan to utilise advanced imaging tools to dissect and interrogate ocular tissues to test the hypothesis that neurovascular disease detectable in the eye mirrors brain change in chronic neurological disease.

This links to research interests in the common and blinding neurodegenerative disorders affecting the eye, namely glaucoma and macular degeneration which are the focus of our studies of ocular imaging, genetics, stem cell research and visual rehabilitation.