Brian Little : Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, London

                          

Mr Brian Little, Bsc MA DO FRCS FRCOphth, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, specialises in cataract surgery and the treatment of glaucoma.

 

 

He sees private patients at the London Medical London Diabetes Centre, 49 Marylebone High Street, London W1U 5HJ. and operates at King Edward VII’s Hospital (Sister Agnes), Beaumont Street, London W1G 6AA.

Mr Little trained as an ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London and was appointed Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at London University in 1993. His NHS practice is based at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. He also provides a service at the Whittington Hospital in Highgate.

 

 

He has always been involved in undergraduate and postgraduate training, and has extensive experience in this field. He contributes to the organisation and delivery of many surgical training courses in the UK, Europe and USA.

 

His award winning Video Atlas of Eye Surgery has recently been released to high international acclaim. The atlas is a collaborative venture involving ophthalmologists from the UK, Europe and the USA. Its purpose is to provide a high quality video-based structured training programme in Eye Surgery. 

 

Since 1996 he has been a member of the Volunteer Faculty of ORBIS, the international eye charity that has, as its flagship, the DC10 "Flying Eye Hospital". Through this work he trains doctors and nurses in developing countries. He has undertaken programs in Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Philippines, Jamaica and Ethiopia. He is also one of the three ORBIS UK ambassadors, and works, in this capacity, to promote ORBIS both in the UK and abroad.

He has established a registered charity called the Eye Movies Foundation that produces medical and surgical training material for the developing world through his links with international eye charities. 

 

For many years he has been involved in the invention and modification of ophthalmic microsurgical instruments that are in use in the UK and abroad. He is the principal UK expert on the International Working Group on Standards for Ophthalmic Surgical

Equipment.