John Dart

Cataract and Corneal transplant surgery External eye diseases

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English

1976

Pre-clinical at Trinity College, Cambridge University
Clinical at the Oxford University Medical School

The Oxford Eye Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital

Fellowships in ocular infection, corneal and external diseases at the Cullen Eye Institute, Houston (Dr Dan B Jones) and Flinders University, Adelaide (Prof Doug Coster) 1983/4.
Lecturer at the Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital from 1984-1989.

1989

American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO),
The Association of Ophthalmologists (UK),
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO),
British Medical Association (BMA),
European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER),
European Society of Ophthalmology,
International Ocular Surface Society (IOSS),
The KPro (keratoprosthesis) society,
Oxford Ophthalmological Congress (Committee member),
Medical Contact lens and Ocular Surface Association (MCLOSA),
The New Zealand Contact Lens Society,
Royal Society of Medicine (RSM),
United Kindom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS)

Consultant Ophthalmologist (Corneal and External Disease Service) at Moorfields (maximum part-time) since 1989.
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Clinical Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, since 1998.

ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS:

Deputy Director of Research at Moorfields Eye Hospital since December 2000.

Chairman of the Infection Control Committee since 1997.

Corneal and External Disease Service Research Lead since 1991.

Medical Assessor (General Medical Council, Professional Performance Procedures) since 1998.

Member Drugs and Therapeutics Committee since 2004.

Member Joint Strategy and Policy Development Group (Institute of Ophthalmology & Moorfields) since 2000.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:

Editorial Board British Journal of Ophthalmology 1998-2004.

Member Study Leave Committee 1989-2004.

NAMED LECTURES:

Distinguished Visiting Lecture at the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists 1993,

Annual Meeting, Las Vegas 1995, The Gerald Dunn Memorial Lecture, 1996

British Contact Lens Association Gold Medal Presentation Lecture, 1998

Ridley Memorial Lecture, 2000

Middlemore Lecture, Birmingham & Midland Ophthalmological Society, 2002

Alta Lecture Proctor Foundation University of California San Francisco, 2003

Gerald Dunn memorial Lecture 2004.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

University of Melbourne, September 1996.

Australia & NZ College March 2001,

Chang Gung Hospitals Taiwan 2001,

Harvard University 2002,

Proctor Foundation UCSF 2003.

I have active programmes of research into ocular infections (principally keratitis) and inflammatory diseases of the anterior segment (particularly mucous membrane pemphigoid). These studies utilize epidemiological, clinical and laboratory techniques and I currently have a research optometrist and a PhD student in my research group working in these fields.
In addition I supervise clinical research into corneal transplant surgery and ocular surface disease with several of the junior staff and colleagues at Moorfields and with other collaborators.
PUBLICATIONS: Over one hundred and eighty publications (over 120 peer reviewed) including 13 chapters and 1 book have resulted form this work

Married with 3 children. My first degree was in Zoology (Christ Church, Oxford University 1971). My Doctorate (Doctor of Medicine) was from Oxford University in 1992.