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Ananth C Viswanathan

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English
 
1989
 
St. Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, London
Moorfields Eye Hospital
 
BSc(Hons) in Neuroscience
Previously Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital
MD in Visual Psychophysics in Glaucoma
PhD in Genetic Epidemiology
 
1991
 
Chairman of EGS GlaucoGENE (European Genetic Epidemiology network).
Chairman of UK Glaucoma Early Diagnosis Programme.
Co-chair of World Glaucoma Association Promulgation Committee
Member of Honorary Medical Advisory Panel to the Secretary of State on Visual Disorders and Driving.
Member of Asia Pacific Glaucoma Guideline International Review Committee
Member of Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 Management Committee (and Principal Applicant for Glaucoma)
Member of Medical Research Council Steering Committee on Glaucoma Screening Feasibility Study (and Study Collaborator)
Member of UK Genetic Testing Network Working Group
Member of the British Eye Study Group
Member of World Glaucoma Association Guidelines for Reporting and Publishing Committee
Editorial Board Member, International Glaucoma Review
Member of UK & Eire Glaucoma Society
Member of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Member of Statistical Genetics Group, Institute of Psychiatry. London
Member of the International Perimetric Society
Invited expert, Lasker Foundation / International Retinal Research Foundation Initiative for Innovation in Vision Science.
 
Consultant Surgeon (Glaucoma), Moorfields Eye Hospital. Honorary Visiting Professor, City University, London. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Institute of Ophthalmology, London. Starting year 2003
 

Overall Winner, Medical Research Council Translational Research Innovation Award 2008 (with Mr. David Garway-Heath, Dr. Gay Mary Verdon-Roe and Professor Fred Fitzke)

Part of the team which contributed to the winning of the Hospital Doctor Clinical Excellence Award for the Moorfields site at St. George's Hospital.

Active in Clinical Research: Major Grants, book chapters, papers, organising symposia as detailed in CV

Active in Teaching: local, national and international e.g.

Organising South West Thames Regional Teaching Day

Regular lectures to Moorfields residents

Regular lectures on Moorfields MRCOphth Pt III refresher course

Regular lectures on Moorfields GP course

Examining MPhil students

Examining PhD students

Supervising PhD students

Supervising pre registration optometrist observers in clinic

Supervising undergraduate medical students in clinic at St.George's

Lecturing to North London Optometrists Group

Lecturing to Orthoptists' Glaucoma Special Interest Group

Invited speaker at local (e.g. Moorfields Bicentennial Symposium) other UK (e.g. Oxford Congress Centenary Symposium) and international (e.g. Yale Glaucoma Symposium) meetings.

 
Vision (visual psychophysics) in glaucoma: early detection, progression
Quality of life / disability in glaucoma
Complex genetics in common eye disease