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Professor Gus Gazzard
Overview
Professor of Ophthalmology at UCL, Director of Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon & Past President of the UK Glaucoma Society.
Gus was made a Consultant in the Glaucoma Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2009. After training at Cambridge University and a 2 year Research Fellowship with Prof Peng Khaw in Singapore, where he managed the 6-year Singapore-5FU surgical trial of trabeculectomy, ran a 110-subject case-control study of Acute Angle Closure and established an RCT looking at early lens extraction in acute angle closure, he received his research degree for a thesis on angle anatomy and visual field loss in angle-closure glaucoma. He was a Surgical Fellow at Moorfields 2006-08.
He is Chief Investigator of the 6-year (£2.5m, 718 subject) multi-centre LiGHT trial of SLT and its sister study the 780-subject LiGHT-China RCT in Guangzhou, and co-investigator on the NEI-funded ($15.2m) ‘COAST’, NIHR-funded (£2m) ‘NAMING’, and ‘GLAUrious’ randomized controlled trials of glaucoma treatments. He is a past President of the UK Glaucoma Society, an active committee member of the European Glaucoma Society, past Director of Moorfields Glaucoma Service and current Director of Surgery at Moorfields. He has published widely on surgical trials including contributions to the Lancet & Cochrane Library, with recent awards at AAO for ongoing research. He has been elected to the 100 member ‘Glaucoma Research Society’ and voted by peers in the top 10 of the global ‘PowerList’ of the most influential ophthalmologists worldwide, 2023, 2024 & 2025.
Academic Appointments
Professor of Ophthalmology (Glaucoma Studies), Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL
2019-present
Non-Academic Appointments
Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon & Director of Surgery, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
2009-present
Degrees
MD (research) University College London
2005
FRCOphth Royal College of Ophthalmologists
1997
MA MBBChir Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
1988-1995