Contributors

Dr Janti Shah graduated in Medicine at Birmingham University in 1961. After completing his preregistration house jobs, he took up a post in anaesthetics as a taster. After a while he found anaesthetics an interesting speciality and pursued his career in it. Most of his early years in anaesthetics involved learning from observation and from books. In 1968 he took up a registrar post in a teaching hospital where he completed his anaesthetic training in cardiovascular and neurosurgical anaesthetics.

Mr Imran Masood is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and Director of the Glaucoma service at the prestigious Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (a tertiary referral centre). He deals with the full range of general ophthalmic conditions He has a subspecialist interest in the assessment, diagnosis and medical and surgical management of all forms of Glaucoma.

He holds the fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and has undergone training in the management of routine and complex eye diseases at the world renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

Dr Heiko Philippin graduated from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2000 and completed his postgraduate ophthalmology training there afterwards. Since January 2007 he worked at the Sabatia Eye Hospital, Kenya, before moving in 2009 to the KCMC Department of Ophthalmology in Moshi, Tanzania. Currently, Dr Philippin is the Head of Postgraduate Training and the glaucoma consultant at KCMC Department of Ophthalmology. In 2011, Dr Philippin did an international glaucoma fellowship with Professor Peter Shah at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Professor Graham Lee is one of a few specialists in the world who have completed both corneal & external diseases (Moorfields Eye Hospital, London) and glaucoma fellowships (Birmingham and Midlands Eye Hospital, Birmingham).

  Dr George Kong is a comprehensive ophthalmologist and Glaucoma subspecialist with a particular interest in cataract surgery, comprehensive glaucoma management, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery, and complex glaucoma caused by angle closure and inflammatory eye diseases.

Freda Sii is the Senior Glaucoma Fellow at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and is part of the Supra-regional Complex Glaucoma Team. She is also part of the 'ReGAE' (Research into Glaucoma And Ethnicity) team led by Professor Peter Shah. The 'ReGAE' project is a multi-phase, multi-disciplinary and ethnically-sensitive project which aims to prevent avoidable glaucoma blindness in the diverse ethnic populations in Birmingham and the UK. She has worked as part of the charity “Sight for East Africa” in Tanzania to assess ways of helping to develop glaucoma resources.

Luke is an Anterior Segment Surgeon who completed his advanced ophthalmic training in Brisbane in 2007. In 2008 he performed a corneal, cataract, and refractive surgical fellowship at The Queen Victoria Hospital and Centre for Sight, United Kingdom.

His special areas of interest are cataract and intra-ocular lens surgery, corneal transplant, pterygium surgery, and keratoconus; he also manages medical retinal disease such as diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration.

Dr Desirée Murray is an Ophthalmologist and Lecturer in Ophthalmology at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She was awarded a scholarship by the Commonwealth Eye Health Consortium to study Masters in Public Health for Eye Care (MPHEC) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Dr Murray is the chairperson of The Volunteers for World Sight Day, a not-for-profit nongovernmental organization which was formed in Trinidad and Tobago in 2006 and which is dedicated to raising awareness about the causes of preventable blindness.

Dr Manning undertook internship and residency in the Hunter New England Area Health Service before commencing specialist eye training. Dr Manning’s Eye Training commenced in Orange at the Orange Eye Centre, then continued formally at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne. Fellowship training followed,  both at The Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne and Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester England.

MBBS (Hons I), BSc, CertLRS, FRANZCO

Dr David Gunn is a Brisbane based ophthalmologist specialising in medical and surgical diseases of the cornea, routine and complex cataract surgery and laser and refractive eye surgery.

Glaucoma and Neuro-ophthalmology Senior Fellow.

Dr Chris Bradshaw is a Specialist Anaesthetist who has a very successful Anaesthetic Practice in Queensland. Chris studied Medicine at the University of Queensland, winning, by academic merit, the Wynne scholarship . Dr Bradshaw then spent two years at the Royal Brisbane Women’s and Children’s Hospitals as a general Hospital Doctor. Chris was then offered a highly sought after position at the Princess Alexandra, Mater and Greenslopes Hospitals as an Anaesthetist in training.