Researcher Home Page : John Dart

John Dart is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital where he is a member of the Corneal and External Disease Service and Cataract Services. He is also an honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Dept of Clinical Ophthalmology at University College London. His clinical and research interests are in ocular inflammatory and ocular surface disease and anterior segment surgery. He has published widely in these fields (80 peer reviewed papers, 9 chapters, 1 book (editor), and over 20 other publications).

Following a first degree in zoology at Oxford he studied medicine at Cambridge and the Oxford University Medical School. His early publications were on tropical sea urchin ecology resulting from studies in the Sudanese Red Sea. His specialist training was undertaken at the Oxford Eye Hospital under the direction of professor Tony Bron and then at Moorfields Eye Hospital with periods as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ophthalmology and visiting Fellowships in Houston with Dr's Dan Jones and Kirk Wilhelmus and in Adelaide with Professor Doug Coster. Before his current appointment he was a Lecturer in Clinical Ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology from 1984-1989 with a special clinical responsibility to the Contact lens and Prosthesis Dept.

He is married to Alison Mathews and they have two sons at Highgate and a daughter at Channing.