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Bill Aylward

Bill Aylward MA, MB, BChir, FRCS, FRCOphth

Ophthalmology
London, England, United Kingdom

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Mr Bill Aylward MA MB BChir FRCS FRCOphth MD is a senior vitreoretinal surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He studied at Cambridge University and trained in ophthalmology at the Western Eye Hospital in London, before writing his MD thesis in Sydney, Australia. He obtained further residency training at Moorfields, then trained as a fellow in vitreoretinal surgery with Peter Leaver and in medical retina with Don Gass at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami.He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and nine book chapters. He is the lead author of the highly regarded The Video Atlas of Eye Surgery – Vitreoretinal.Bill has been a consultant at Moorfields since1994, and was medical director from 2002-10. He is chairman of the informatics and audit committee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, and a member of their professional standards committee. He is vice president of the Club Jules Gonin and was president of the European Society of Retinal Specialists (Euretina) from 2009-11. He is currently leading the OpenEyes collaborative development of a state-of-the-art electronic patient record for ophthalmology.
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