Rupert Bourne

Glaucoma – medical and surgical treatment, Cataract surgery

• The John Saunders Suite
  Practice Manager - Ana Santos - 020 7566 2698

English / French / Russian

1994

The London Hospital Medical College

Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford & Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Royal United Ho

2004 – International Clinical & Research Fellow to Professor Robert Weinreb, University of California San Diego
2005 – Glaucoma Fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
2005 – MD (University of London)

2007

Fellow of Royal College of Ophthalmologists
ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) member
ISGEO (International Society of Geographic and Epidemiological Ophthalmology) member

Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Moorfields Eye Hospital Bedford – Clinical Lead for Glaucoma (from 2007)
Professor of Ophthalmology, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (part-time from 2007)
Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Huntingdon Glaucoma Diagnostic & Research Centre, Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire (from 2005)
Honorary Senior Lecturer, International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London (from 2003)

Regular presentations at international research meetings, over 35 peer reviewed publications in international medical journals, newspaper and radio comment on research in glaucoma care

Glaucoma – epidemiology, clinical management

Visual impairment and blindness – national surveys of eye disease (most recently Pakistan, Bangladesh)

Altitude research in ophthalmology

Cataract surgery

Married to a GP with three sons. Keen interest in travel, mountaineering and history