Jul
21
Dear patients and professional colleagues, We trust that you are all keeping well. We appear to be turning a corner in this pandemic with restrictions being lifted and the country finally beginning to fully open up again. Despite this, the safety of our patients is our highest priority, and we will continue to implement the… Continue reading »
Feb
05
As you may have read, several of the large NHS London hospitals and Covid centres put out a call for staff volunteers to help out on their Intensive Therapy Units (ITUs) by doing shifts. As a result, many ophthalmologists, myself included, have volunteered. However, we consultants are so specialised in our field of ophthalmology that… Continue reading »
Jan
11
We’d like to wish all our patients and colleagues a happy and healthy New Year in 2018. Some of you may know that Mark has been busy writing a book! Not an action adventure blockbuster, alas, but a primer on uveitis aimed at ophthalmologists in training. Mark runs uveitis clinics at Moorfields Eye Hospital… Continue reading »
Oct
17
During the summer I was privileged to give a couple of lectures at the inaugural meeting of the Argentine Uveitis Society following a kind invitation from a colleague and fellow specialist, Professor Christobal Couto. One of the lectures I gave was on a rare inflammatory disease of the eyes called Birdshot retinochoroiditis. I have a… Continue reading »
Dec
17
We would like to wish all our patients, clinic staff and our optometrist and GP colleagues a very happy Christmas and a healthy New Year! With best wishes from Mark, Sylwia, Avni, Anabela, Sandrine and Chris
Feb
01
Mark was invited to present at a conference at Moorfields Eye Hospital a couple of weeks ago, devoted to the use of femtosecond laser in cataract surgery. This allowed those initial surgeons who’ve spearheaded the use of femtosecond laser in cataract surgery in the UK to share their experiences. The audience were primarily surgeons interested… Continue reading »
Dec
17
We would like to wish all our patients, clinic staff and our optometrist and GP colleagues a very happy Christmas and a healthy New Year! With best wishes from Mark, Sylwia, Avni, Anabela, Sandrine and Chris
Dec
03
Mark attended and lectured at the “Euretina” 2014 meeting in London recently. Held at the ExCel Centre, this is one of the world’s largest congresses devoted to retinal disorders. The aim is to allow specialists with an interest in retinal disorders to share clinical experience, research ideas, and keep up to date with this rapidly… Continue reading »
May
29
Thank you to all the optmometrists and allied health professionals who came to Mark’s lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine. The subject of the lecture was “Femtosecond laser assisted cataract surgery – Is it worth the hype?”. This generated a huge amount of interest as it’s a relatively recent technological advance in cataract surgery… Continue reading »
Feb
08
The Moorfields Macula Course was held in Greece, where I gave two lectures on uveitis.
