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Career and Research Award highlights:
UK Novartis retina research award, from Moorfields Hospital, and UCL gene therapy research doctorate
International lecturer at global conferences:
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS)
World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC)
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) European EU Retinal Research Meeting
Moorfields Alumni Meetings
Royal College of Ophthalmologists Congress (RCOphth)
NHS and Social Care Award nominated, for smoking and vision research; lobbying the “smoking causes blindness” warning - now visible on tobacco products in the UK
The prestigious Karolinska Institute (Nobel Prize Institution), Erasmus Academic Award
Macula Society “patient advocacy” role for schools campaign and macula degeneration
Ophthalmic Public Health Group (Royal College of Ophthalmologists) An international schools and UK campaign with the Macula Society
International invited “Keynote Speaker” at South African Vitreoretinal Society and a Royal College of Ophthalmologists approved conference at the King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh
Birmingham University Ophthalmology Prize - intercalated BSc research year; publication as undergraduate
Consultant Eye Surgeon
Award winning blindness research at Moorfields Hospital
UCL published research doctorate
International invited lecturer, to eye surgeons globally
NHS Social Care Award nominee
NHS Clinical Lead and Head of Department
Fellow of Royal College of Ophthalmology (FRCOphth)
Founding Member of the Ophthalmic Public Health Group (at RCOphth)
Organised national campaign for “Smoking causes blindness” on tobacco products
National patient advocacy with the Macula Society
Over twenty years of ‘caring and compassionate’ patient feedback
Regular patient and optician lectures and updates as a Patient Advocate