Mr Peter Constable

I provide a broad general ophthalmic service at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, running specialist glaucoma and cataract services, as well as running specialist clinics for medical retina problems and glaucoma, and a specialist cataract service. I am also establishing an active glaucoma research programme in the eye unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

My special clinical interests include micro incision cataract surgery (phacoemulsification) and medical and surgical treatment of glaucoma.

After studying medicine at Cambridge and Oxford universities, I completed my higher specialist training at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, gaining comprehensive clinical and surgical experience in all of the major specialities within ophthalmology.

I spent two years as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Ophthalmology, researching into treatments that regulate how eyes heal after surgery, gaining my doctorate in 1998.

In addition I completed a clinical Fellowship in the Glaucoma Unit at Moorfields, gaining extensive experience into all aspects of the surgical and medical management of glaucoma. I have had a broad surgical training, including the use of modern small incision phacoemulsification and refractive surgery techniques to give improved outcomes after cataract surgery.

I worked for two years as a fellow in the Glaucoma Unit at Moorfields Eye Hospital, during which time I successfully completed a period of research into the effects of focal beta radiation on ocular fibroblast wound healing functions.

During my training and research I have been awarded many prizes including: Open Exhibition to Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; Samuel Edwards Exhibition to Stamford School; Reddaway Prize, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge; I.C.I. Pathology Bursary; T.F.C.Frost Fellowship to Glaucoma Unit, Moorfields Eye Hospital and Institute of Ophthalmology; Ian Fraser Prize, Oxford Congress 1996.