About Professor Gus Gazzard, MBBChir MA MD FRCOphth

Gus is the Director of Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital, Professor in Ophthalmology, Glaucoma Studies at UCL London, a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon (Glaucoma and Cataract) and Chief Investigator of the LiGHT Trial of Laser Treatment for Glaucoma.

Based in Moorfields London (one of the world’s leading eye hospitals) as well as other private clinics in London, Gus has considerable experience in his chosen field, developed through decades of work and research both within the UK and internationally.

His primary areas of expertise are Cataracts, Glaucoma and the medical, laser and surgical treatment of glaucoma, including small incision and complex cataract surgery. Professor Gazzard is the recipient of the prestigious, competitively awarded “NHS National Silver Merit Award” and is both organiser and lecturer at The Moorfields International Glaucoma Symposium (MIGS).

Gus’s research has included clinical trials of Glaucoma surgery and currently he is the Chief Investigator of the LiGHT Trial of Laser Treatment for Glaucoma, a major study into the most effective use of selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT).

Research and projects

Gus has run several clinical trials in glaucoma surgery. His research interests include angle closure glaucoma, randomised controlled trials of glaucoma treatments, and anterior segment imaging.

Google Scholar link

Find a collection of Professor Gus Gazzard’s articles and research on Google Scholar here, including citations and h-index

For a comprehensive listing of Professor Gazzard’s research and publications see his listing on the ORCID website here.

Professor Gazzard is on the advisory board for the FOREVER Project (see: https://forever.ku.dk/) :Finding Opthalmic Risk and Evaluating the Value of Eye exams and their predictive Reliability (FOREVER)
Professor Gazzard was part of the world’s first randomised controlled trial to prove the effectiveness of the PRESERFLO™ MicroShunt Glaucoma Drainage System. Read more
He has the largest amount of experience in the U.K. and Europe with Hydrus micro-stent procedures, with over 350 devices implanted. Read more
Professor Gazzard in a leading author of multiple publications on Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) including influential Cochrane meta-analyses of all the available studies. Read more
He led the world’s largest, pivotal and highly influential study proving laser can be safely and effectively used for newly diagnosed open angle glaucoma patients as in the ground-breaking Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty (SLT) study. Read more
He has authored over 110 publications, and is currently working as the chief investigator on the LiGHT SLT Trial.
Prof. Gazzard is the author of ’this definitive review of the data on the main treatment for angle closure. You can read this ground-breaking paper on his research here
His particular areas of research are the diagnosis and surgical management of glaucoma and cataracts, with a particular interest in randomised controlled trials of treatment as well as the epidemiology and prevention of myopia.

Research experience includes:

Research into laser alternatives to drop treatments (laser trabeculoplasty, SLT), angle closure glaucoma and randomised controlled trials of treatment.
Two years research into the diagnosis and management of glaucoma ~ Institute of Ophthalmology, London and Singapore National Eye Centre leading to MD Thesis (2006, UCL)
Two year Surgical Glaucoma Fellowship ~ Moorfields

Professional profile

Gus is the Director of Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was made a Consultant in the Glaucoma Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2009 following a Surgical Fellowship at Moorfields (2006-08) and a Research Fellowship with Prof Peng Khaw in Singapore (1999-2002), where he ran several clinical trials in glaucoma surgery. He pursues research interests in angle closure glaucoma and randomised controlled trials of glaucoma treatments with particular focus on drop-free therapies for glaucoma. Professor Gazzard currently trains other surgeons in the Hydrus, iStent, InnFocus and other innovative minimally invasive surgical procedures at Moorfields.

He is the Chief Investigator of the LiGHT Trial (a large multi-centre £2 million NIHR-HTA funded trial of Selective laser Trabeculoplasty), a member of the EAGLE Study Group (an international multi-centre randomised controlled trial of early lens extraction in angle-closure glaucoma) and a co-founder of the European Glaucoma Society Special Interest Group in angle closure.

In addition to his NHS and University posts, Professor Gazzard is available to see private patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital Private Clinic, The London Claremont Clinic or the King Edward VIIth Hospital, Marylebone (contact information available here).

Current NHS / University posts

Director of Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital
Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Glaucoma and Cataract – Moorfields Eye Hospital
Professor of Ophthalmology, Glaucoma Studies ~ Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London
Honorary Research Associate ~ Singapore Eye Research Institute

Medical Practice – Current

CI for NIHR-funded LiGHT Trial of SLT for Glaucoma
Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Fellow
University College of London Clinical Ophthalmology MSc – Clinical Lead
Moorfields Gonioscopy course Clinical Lead

Medical Practice – Previous

King’s College Hospital, London
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, London
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

Education

Initial medical training: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
Ophthalmology training: King’s College Hospital, St Thomas’ Hospital & Moorfields
UCL, University of London
Year of first medical qualification: 1993

Other Professional Achievements

National Silver Merit Award 2020
National Bronze Merit Award 2015
Active national and international lecturer and educator in glaucoma and myopia.
Produced more than 120 published scientific articles, book chapters and videos.

Fellowships & Memberships

Royal College of Ophthalmologists (Fellow)
GMC Specialist Register
European Glaucoma Society (Organising Committee Member)
UK & Eire Glaucoma Society
UK Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS)
European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS)
American Academy of Ophthalmology
Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Royal Society of Medicine
Oxford Ophthalmological Congress
British Medical Association

Academic Profile (UCL Iris website)

Gus Gazzard ResearchGate Listing

Professor Gazzard has over 183 publications listed on ResearchGate: you can see the full list here

ResearchGate is a social networking site and collaboration tool aimed at scientific researchers from all disciplines of science. The website allows scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators and its members are encouraged to share raw data and failed experiment results as well as successes, in order to avoid repeating their peers’ scientific research mistakes. ResearchGate members are ranked on their overall activity, interaction with other scientific projects and how often they themselves (or their projects) are cited or referred to.

Professor Gazzard is ranked higher than 98.5 per cent of the members of ResearchGate. You can view the basic ResearchGate profile on Professor Gazzard here which includes his research publications, citations of his work, latest articles and journals and more.

In this video, Gus discusses his role and background at UCL