Doctor on a mission to reinvent eye examination wins prestigious award
15 June 2016
Moorfields doctor Pearse Keane has won a prestigious National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Clinician Scientist award. The first ophthalmologist in the UK to receive this award.
Pearse聽 intends聽 to reinvent the聽 way eye examinations are currently performed in hospitals聽 by using a new form of ocular imaging device, called binocular optical coherence tomography (OCT). The NIHR award which is just under one million pounds will fund this research work for the next five years.
Doctor Keane was also recently featured in the 鈥淧ower List鈥 of The Ophthalmologist magazine; in this worldwide list, he was ranked number four of the 鈥淭op 40鈥 ophthalmologists 鈥淯nder 40鈥.
Binocular OCT provides extremely high-resolution images of the eye in a completely non-invasive manner. For comparison, this imaging is much greater resolution than CT or MRI scanning, and can be obtained in only a fraction of a second.