In recent years, British ophthalmology has become increasingly sub-specialised in an effort to improve the quality of patient care.
One such sub-specialty within the field of ophthalmology is oculoplastic surgery, which encompasses the fields of orbital and lacrimal surgery.
Oculoplastic surgery was born in the United States during World War II as a result of injuries sustained by service personnel in the Pacific arena.
Oculoplastics has flourished in the USA since then, but is still a very young specialty in Europe, where many members of the public, let alone the medical profession, are unaware of its existence.
My own training in oculoplastic surgery was as Senior Fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and incorporated an exchange to the orbita centrum in Amsterdam. This was followed by sabbatical periods in Manchester, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Melbourne and Vancouver.
If you have any questions about oculoplastics, then please contact me.
I look forward to hearing from you.
John Pitts MB ChB LLM DAvMed MRCP FRCS FRCOphth.
John Pitts is an oculoplastic surgeon in full-time privatepractice in London and Barbados following a substantive NHS consultantposition. He graduated MB ChB from Glasgow University in 1983 and,in 1987, after working in pathology and neurology, he trained in ophthalmologyin Glasgow, Nottingham and London. He has travelled extensively, workingin centres of excellence in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Melbourne, Barbados,Brunei and Vancouver. He has undertaken Fellowship training inoculoplastics at Moorfields Eye Hospital.
