Mr Mark Westcott
Private
NHS
Conditions I treat
Locations I work from
Age ranges treated
- Adults (age 16 and above)
Qualifications / Professional memberships
- Fellow Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth)
- American Academy of Ophthalmologists (International member)
- Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (Member)
Current NHS / University Post
- Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust (since 2003) )
- 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.
Languages spoken
- English
- French
Last updated
15th March 2024