Mark Westcott

Small incision cataract surgery, complex cataract surgery (with coexisting glaucoma / uveitis). Toric IOLs. Inflammatory eye disease

English and French

1989

St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London

Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles

Advanced training in cataract surgery and glaucoma surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Expertise in Medical retina fellowship in uveitis at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Won national scholarship to undertake clinical training in glaucoma at Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles. In this time undertook postdoctoral research in techniques to identify visual field progression in glaucoma.

Fellow 1994, Consultant 2003

FRCOphth. American Academy of Ophthalmologists (international member). Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Member)

Consultant Ophthalmic surgeon. St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Royal London (full time 2003). Moorfields Eye Hospital (Honorary, part time start 2003). Senior lecturer Honorary, Institute of Ophthalmology (Start 2007)

Glaucoma research: Visual function in glaucoma: Improving the early diagnosis of glaucoma using novel tests of visual function. This research led to a doctorial thesis (MD) awarded in 1999, and is ongoing. New techniques to detect visual field deterioration. Uveitis research: Diagnosis and management of viral retinitis. Uveitic glaucoma.

Advanced training in cataract surgery and glaucoma surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

He has an interest in complex cataract,  Medical retina fellowship in uveitis at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Won national scholarship to undertake clinical training in glaucoma at Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles. In this time undertook postdoctoral research in techniques to identify visual field progression in glaucoma.