Curriculum Vitae

I was born in 1956 in Glasgow and studied and worked in Scotland until 1986. Home was Troon in Ayrshire where I went to school at Marr College and then to the University of Glasgow, qualifying with MB ChB in 1979. My early clinical training in ophthalmology was based in Gartnaval General Hospital and the Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow. I gained fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 1984 and fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1988.

During my clinical training I obtained a Medical Research Council training fellowship and worked in the Medical Research Council Virology Unit at the University of Glasgow. The work undertaken there led to a PhD in 1988.

I moved to Bristol at the end of 1986 to take up a Senior Registrar post in Bristol Eye Hospital and was appointed to a Consultant post in the Bristol Eye Hospital in October 1990. I undertook a further period of clinical and laboratory training in the Louisiana State University in New Orleans.

I served as a Council member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists between 1994 and 2000 representing the South West region. I was elected Vice-President in the year 2000 and became Senior Vice-President for the year 2004/2005. My principal area of responsibility was in the training of ophthalmologists within the UK.