Berkshire surgeons

	Mr Peter Constable, MA MD FRCOphth, undertook his medical training at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and Worcester College, Oxford, before moving to Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Western Ophthalmic hospital for his higher specialist ophthalmic training. He spent two years in clinical research at the Institute of Ophthalmology for his higher degree in the management of glaucoma, as well as completing a clinical Fellowship in the Glaucoma Unit at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Berkshire hospital in 1999. He provides general and specialist ophthalmic services at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading , and West Berkshire Community Hospital in Newbury, and consults privately at the Dunedin hospital in Reading. He has a specialist interest in the diagnosis and management of all types of glaucoma, and he also established and runs a dedicated modern day case cataract service at Newbury hospital. More information and contact details are available at his website: www.constables.gb.com
	Mr Martin Leyland, BSc (hons) MB CHb (hons) MD FRCOphth. I hold NHS consultant posts at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, the West Berkshire Community Hospital in Newbury and the Oxford Eye Hospital. Private Consultations are available at Dunedin Classic Hospital, Reading (please see website www.berkshireeyesurgery.co.uk for contact details). I trained in London, including 3 years at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and specialise in anterior segment ophthalmology, including cataract, corneal, conjunctival and eyelid disease. I also care for patients with all kinds of ophthalmic disease, including glaucoma, diabetic eye disease, macular degeneration and strabismus (squint). I am a member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, the Oxford Ophthalmologic Congress and the Cochrane Collaboration for Evidence-based Medicine. I regularly speak at regional and national meetings on corneal disease and keratoplasty techniques. I am the College Tutor for Berkshire and Clinical Director of Research and Development at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. My research interests have concentrated on visual outcomes of cataract surgery leading to a Doctorate of Medicine (MD) for a thesis on the use of multifocal intraocular lenses in cataract surgery.
	Mr Andrew Pearson MA MRCP FRCOphth holds Consultant Ophthalmologist posts at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor and consults privately at the Dunedin Hospital, Reading, the Princess Margaret Hospital, Windsor and Thames Valley Nuffield, Wexham. Contact details can be found at www.eyesurgeryinberkshire.co.uk. Mr Pearson trained at Cambridge University and St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, qualifying in 1989. Higher training in internal medicine led to the award of Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. Training in ophthalmology commenced in 1993 with a first post at the Prince Charles Eye Unit, Windsor. Extensive experience in cataract surgery and further training posts in each of the sub-divisions within ophthalmology led to the award of Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1996 and full specialist accreditation in 2001. Mr Pearson has undertaken two advanced higher specialist training programmes in oculoplastic surgery at both Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham and Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, London. He is a founder member of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society, and a member of the United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons and European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons. He regularly presents research at national and international scientific meetings. Further information on Mr Pearson’s specialist ophthalmic practice, which focuses on cataract surgery, oculoplastic surgery and general ophthalmology, can be found at www.eyesurgeryinberkshire.co.uk.
	Mr Vaughan Tanner holds NHS Consultant positions at The Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor. Private consultations are available at The Princess Margaret Hospital, Windsor and the Dunedin Classic Hospital, Reading His contact details can be found at www.tanner-eyes.co.uk. During his higher surgical training at the Oxford Eye Hospital he gained extensive experience in small incision, cataract surgery. His research interests and publications include cataract surgery, vitreo-retinal surgery, macular disease, macular hole repair and retinal imaging. His fellowships included three years of advanced sub-specialist training at Moorfields Eye Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital, London in the surgical and medical management of retinal disease. He regularly gives regional and national lectures and has co-authored “Diseases of the Ocular Fundus ”. This textbook was awarded first prize as "Best Authored Textbook in 2005" by the Royal Society of Medicine and Royal Society of Authors.