Consultant Ophthalmologist, Barts and the Royal London NHS Trust (since 2003)
Senior Lecturer (Honorary), Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL (since 2007)
Medical training
St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles
Doctoral Thesis (Doctorate of Medicine) from the Institute of Ophthalmology awarded 1997
Research interest / experience
Mark has published over 55 scientific papers and is a regular presenter at international meetings. His research interests cover infectious and non-infectious uveitis and visual loss in glaucoma.
Regular reviewer for the British Journal of Ophthalmology, Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, Journal of Ocular Infection and Immunity, and Ocular Immunology and Inflammation.
Expert reviewer of major grant submissions for the French Ministry of Health – Groupements Interrégionaux pour la Recherche Clinique et l’Innovation (GIRCI).
Co-author of a popular textbook on uveitis “Practical Uveitis: Understanding the Grape”. Authors G S Williams, M Westcott. Published by CRC Press 2017. ISBN 1138035750.
Surgical Trainer for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists where he trains surgeons in microsurgery and phacoemulsification cataract surgery.