As Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, he pioneered cobalt plaque radiotherapy for the treatment of ocular tumours, particularly in children.
In retirement, he became chairman of the Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Heath Authority and then chairman of the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
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In a procedure first attempted at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, researchers at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford have used gene therapy to attempt to curtail the condition which is caused by a faulty gene labelled REP1 and causes the light sensitive cells in the eye to gradually die.
The establishment of this institution preceded by several months the 1805 founding by John Cunningham Saunders of the much better known London Dispensary for curing Diseases of the Eye and Ear on Charterhouse Square, which later became the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields Eye Hospital).