GMC No. 3544189

John Greenwood is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon
The North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and also sees private patients at the Matheson Optometrists practices in Alton and Four Marks.

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Qualifications

MB.BS (University College London)
FRCOphth

Awarded CCST January 2003
Entry on Specialist Register February 2003

FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENT

Cornea and Anterior Segment Fellow to Mr JD Stevens and Mr JKG Dart at Moorfields Eye Hospital (2002)

Specialist Anterior Segment training encompassing Cornea, Cataract and Refractive surgery

Cornea Medical and surgical aspects of corneal pathology with an emphasis on penetrating keratoplasty. Management of post graft astigmatism (including by LASIK), the management of corneal infective conditions and corneal dystrophies.Familiar with topography, wavefront and other emerging technologies increasingly used in the management of corneal disease.

Cataract Experience in small incision phacoemulsification, refractive cataract surgery and advanced phacoemulsification techniques. Involved in wavefront for both therapeutic and primary treatments and also in the management of post surgical astigmatism. Competent in both LASIK and LASEK.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Greenwood AJ, Stanford MR, Graham EM
EYE (1998) 12, 783-788
The role of Azathioprine in retinal vasculitis
Study examining the efficacy of Azathioprine in the management of retinal vasculitis, particularly with regard to its effectiveness in permitting a decreased steroid dose and in reducing relapse rate. Examination of the disease outcomes of patients with a variety of etiologies of retinal vasculitis.

Greenwood AJ, Stanford MR, Graham EM
ARVO 1997 CMV retinitis symposium
Soluble adhesion molecules in patients with AIDS with or without CMV retinitis
Prospective study of the changes in plasma levels of sICAM-1 and sVCAM-1 in patients with AIDS and their relation to activation or development of CMV retinitis.Evaluation of possible role as a marker of retinitis in order to anticipate and treat reactivation.

Greenwood AJ, Graham EM
International journal of STD and AIDS 1997;8:358-365
The ocular complications of HIV and AIDS
Review paper detailing the clinical findings, natural history and modern management of the large number of HIV related ophthalmic diseases.

Greenwood AJ, Stanford MR, Graham EM
International journal of STD and AIDS 1998;9:713-714
Soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1(sVCAM-1) in patients with HIV and AIDS with and without CMV retinitis
Further results from initial paper presented at ARVO. Results of prospective two year follow up period.

PRESENTATIONS

Moorfields Alumni Greenwood J, Stevens JD, Smith l, Williams K
February 2003 Wavefront therapeutic treatment of poor night visionResults of a prospective trial of wavefront guided therapeutic custom ablation to reduce subjective and objective night vision problems following previous LASIK refractive surgery.ESCRS

Stevens JD, Williams K, Smith L, Greenwood J
Nice September 2002 Subjective results of VISX Wavescan StarS3 wavefront guided re-treatment of previous refractive surgery

ESCRS Nice - Société Francaise.

Stevens JD, Williams K, Smith L, Greenwood J

Correcting night vision: prospective study of wavefront guided re-treatment of previous LASIK refractive surgery

Greenwood J, Stevens JD, Williams K
D'Ophtalmologie May 2002

The effect of pupil size on refraction as determined Paris by wavefront aberrometry in patients
undergoing LASIK

Moorfields Alumni - Stevens JD, Williams K, Greenwood J
February 2001

Wavefront Scanning and refractive surgeryThe principles and applications of the wavefront scanner and results of initial prospective trial of wavefront guided custom ablation in LASIK re-treatments.

Royal College of Ophthalmologists - Greenwood AJ, Stanford MR, Graham EM
The role of Azathioprine in Retinal Vasculitis

Royal College of Ophthalmologists Annual Congress Poster Presentation May 1997
Greenwood AJ, Rassam S
Autoregulation at the Optic Nerve Head

Annual Congress Poster Presentation
May 1996
Examination of optic nerve head blood flow autoregulation using fluorescein angiography and the Digital Imagenet System with subjects breathing oxygen and re-breathing carbon dioxide.

Royal College of Ophthalmologists Annual Congress Video Presentation March 1994

Greenwood AJ, Keightley SJ
A new Capsulorrhexis instrument in cataract surgery
Presentation of a new swivelling blade diamond instrument to facilitate capsulorrhexis in cataract surgery, manufactured to own design by Micra Instruments Ltd.

INTERESTS

Recreational aviation. Gained Private Pilot's licence at the age of 18.
Patents and inventions. Has several ideas for new devices and designs and one patent. These include several in the medical field.
Skiing and Squash.
Speaks good conversational French.

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