Work

Research Interests

Clinical
Intraocular inflammation (uveitis) - diagnosis and treatment - medical and surgical. Patients are seen in two dedicated uveitis clinics/week, and a clinic every four months for patients suffering from Behçet's Disease with two Consultant Rheumatologists and Senior Lecturer in Oral Medicine. Also a clinic every six months looking at children with arthritis and uveitis with a Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist and Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist. I specialise in cataract surgery in patients with uveitis.

 Laboratory
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Other Activities
Member of the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
 Research & Development Committee
Medical Education Committee
Undergraduate Teaching Group
Discretionary Points Committee.

Royal College of Ophthalmologists
Examiner for Part II Fellowship examination and Fellowship Assessment
(previous Part I examiner)
Chairman, Specialist Training Committee for Medical Ophthalmology and
member Specialist Advisory Committee for Medical Ophthalmology
Member Education Committee, in charge of Undergraduate
Education and Foundation Curriculum, and member International Medical
Graduate, E-learning and Equivalence of Training subcommittees
Member Examinations Committee
Assessor for Article 14 applications.

University of Birmingham
Member University Senate
Deputy Head, Graduate School, College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Member Graduate Studies Committee, College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Member AV2 Committee, College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Member Clinical Academic Training Group, College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Member School Executive, School of Immunity and Infection
Member School Teaching Forum, School of Immunity and Infection

Courses
I am an organiser for:
Basic Sciences Course for Ophthalmologists for Part I FRCOphth held yearly
Oculus, a weekend course for Part II FRCOphth held twice-yearly.

Other
Secretary of the International Uveitis Study Group
Member Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Foundation Programme Committee
Section Editor, British Journal of Ophthalmology
Reviewing Editor, Ocular Immunology and Inflammation
Editorial Board Member, BMC Ophthalmology
Responsible for ophthalmological teaching of University of Birmingham medical students
External Examiner for Middlesex University
Referee on panel of experts for HEFCE-DoH Clinical Senior Lectureship Awards
Member Fight for Sight Grant Allocation Panel
Adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom
Member Professional Panel Uveitis Information Group
Adviser to the Behçet's Syndrome Society
Member Vision 2020 Eye Research UK Group.

Previous Duties
Secretary and Vice President of the Section of Ophthalmology of the Royal Society of Medicine
External Examiner for University of Nottingham and Aston University
Member Sandwell and West Birmingham Local Research Ethics Committee
Editor of Eye News
Section Editor of Ophthalmic Literature and eye
Adviser to the Toxoplasmosis Trust.


My life seems to be split between seeing patients, Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching, undertaking clinical and laboratory research, writing papers, books and research grants, serving on numerous committees, playing the saxophone and occasionally seeing my family.