Professor Johnny Moore is a well respected Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, specializing in ocular surface reconstruction, laser refractive surgery, cataract and other intra-ocular eye surgery and has personally completed over 5,000 treatments.

In addition to performing surgery, Professor Moore is actively involved in teaching, training and helping to run an online cataract and refractive MSc course through the University of Ulster. This course is designed to train both surgeons, optometrists, laser technicians and others involved in this area from around the world in the intricacies of laser and refractive cataract surgery.

Johnny has spent time training and researching in various parts of the world including Australia where he trained in ocular surface reconstruction. He also carried out research for his PhD thesis in Harvard Medical School, Boston and trained under Professor Dimitri Azar.

Johnny helped to found the Ocular Surface Research Group in the University of Ulster, Coleraine and continues to be actively involved in this research both clinically and through the laboratory, regularly publishing in international journals and successfully acquiring grant funding for this work.

Currently Johnny is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Clinical Director in the Cathedral Eye Clinic and a Consultant Ophthalmologist in the Mater Hospital, Belfast.

Mr Colin Willoughby left Northern Ireland to attend medical school at the University of Liverpool, qualifying in 1988 with a BSc First Class in Anatomy, and a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with Honours (MBChB Hons) in 1991. He commenced ophthalmology clinical training in 1993 in Liverpool and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth) in 1996. His subsequent training continued in Liverpool and included a corneal fellowship for one year and training as a Specialist Registrar in ophthalmology until 1999, when he became Lecturer in Ophthalmology at the University of Liverpool.

Colin completed a fellowship programme in Ocular Genetics at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. His initial research focused on the ectodermal dysplasias, inherited disorders of the skin and cornea, gaining his Doctorate in Medicine (MD) in 2004 from the University of Liverpool. Colin now has a clinical and lab-based programme of research on the genetics of cataracts, glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, keratoconus and other corneal diseases. He has published numerous high-ranking scientific papers in ophthalmology and genetics, written 3 book chapters, acts as a referee for twelve international ophthalmology journals as well as reviewing research grants for government and charitable funding bodies.

Currently, Colin is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast.

Mr Richard Best is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast. He qualified from Queen’s University Belfast Medical School in 1988 with Distinction in Medicine and Surgery and an Honours degree in Biochemistry. He started training in ophthalmology in 1990 at the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast and obtained the Fellowship of Ophthalmology (FRCOphth) from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 2004. During his training he developed an interest in retinal surgery and in 1996 undertook a fellowship in advanced vitreoretinal surgery at the University of Michigan in the USA, one of the leading centres for retinal surgery in the world. In 1997 he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast where he currently practices. He was Clinical Director for Ophthalmology at the Royal Victoria Hospital from 2004-2008.

His areas of special interest are diseases and surgery of the retina, including retinal detachment, diabetic retinopathy and macular diseases including age related macular degeneration. He also has an active interest in small incision cataract surgery. He was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine (MD) from Queen’s University Belfast in 1997.

Currently, Richard is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast.

Andrew Spence is the Principal Optometrist at Cathedral Eye Clinic. He is a fully qualified Ophthalmic Dispenser and Optometrist.

Andrew is also a member of the Optometry Northern Ireland Executive which promotes excellence and influences developments in the provinces optometric services.

A further role he undertakes is acting as the Optometry Northern Ireland representative to Northern Ireland GPs.