Mr Robert Scott

Professor Robert Scott is a consultant ophthalmologist with subspecialist clinical interests in cataract surgery, retinal disease and ocular trauma. He qualified from St Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1987 and specialised in ophthalmology at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He attained dual Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1993. He served for 26 years in the Royal Air Force and was the lead military consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham for 15 years. He served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and managed the majority of eye cases from these conflicts. During this time, he has served as the Royal Air Force and Defence Medical Services Consultant Adviser in Ophthalmology and was deployed on active duty for a number of missions. His work with artificial vision for the war-blinded was featured on the acclaimed BBC documentary ‘Frontline Medicine’. His Doctorate in Medicine was from the University of Nottingham and he is widely published in the scientific press, authoring around 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is the inventor of the Cell Penetrating Peptide and is developing its use as a platform to deliver new generation medicines. He is also developing new treatments for keratoconus, proliferative vitreoretinopathy and optic nerve gliomas. He remains an honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham.He was honoured to be elected as President of the Midland Ophthalmological Society in 2008, appointed as the Defence Medical Services and Royal College of Ophthalmologists Professor of Ophthalmology in 2012, then honorary Professor of Ophthalmology by the University of Birmingham in 2014. He was named as a Times newspaper top UK surgeon for all specialties in 2011 and awarded the Lady Cade Medal for research by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2014. On leaving the RAF, he served as Medical Director for Moorfields Eye Hospital in Dubai, where he led the service to profitability for the first time and built a new clinic in Abu Dhabi. He returned to the UK in 2017 as Medical Director of SpaMedica Ltd the cataract provider company helping its expansion from 4 to 10 units, until 2018 when he left to set up his own clinic, Edgbaston Eye Consultants in Birmingham. He is now working in private practice between Birmingham and Harley Street in London.

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