Download PROFESSOR JOHN MARSHALL (UK)

PROFESSOR JOHN MARSHALL (UK)
MBE, BSc (Hons), PhD, FMedSci, FRCPath, FRSB, DSc2(Hon) FRCOphth (Hon), FCOptom (Hon),
FARVO, FLIA, FRSA
Professor John Marshall is the Frost Professor of Ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology in
association with Moorfield's Eye Hospital, University College London. He is Emeritus Professor of
Ophthalmology at Kings College London, Honorary Distinguished Professor University of Cardiff, Honorary
Professor the City University and Honorary Professor Glasgow Calendonian University. His research over
the past forty years has ranged over a number of ocular problems but has concentrated on the interrelationships between light and ageing, the environmental mechanisms underlying age-related, diabetic
and inherited retinal disease, and the development of lasers for use in ophthalmic diagnosis and surgery.
This work has resulted in over four hundred research papers and 41 book chapters and 7 books. He
invented and patented the revolutionary Excimer laser for the correction of refractive disorders with in
excess of 50 million procedures now having been undertaken worldwide. He also created the world’s
first Diode laser for treating eye problems of diabetes, glaucoma and ageing. He is editor and co-editor
of numerous international journals. He has successfully trained 60 students for higher doctorates. He has
been awarded the Nettleship Medal of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, the
Mackenzie Medal, the Raynor Medal, the Ridley Medal, the Ashton Medal, the Ida Mann Medal and the
Lord Crook Gold Medal of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, the Doyne Medal of the Oxford
Congress, the Barraquer Medal of the International Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, the Kelman
Innovator Award of the American Society for Refractive and Cataract surgery, the Lim Medal of the
Singapore National Eye Centre and the Junius-Kuhnt award and Medal for his work on AMD. In 2014 he
was awarded the Zivojnovic award by the European Vitreo Retinal Society, a lifetime achievement award
by the UK & Irish Society for Cataract & Refractive Surgery and delivered the Bowman Lecture and
received the Bowman Medal. He was also voted 17th in The Ophthalmologist Power List 2014 of the most
influential people in world ophthalmology. He has been visiting professor at numerous universities on
every continent.
He has more than thirty patents and has held posts chairing the medical advisory boards of many
international companies and was a director of Diomed for some years, this being the leading supplier of
diode laser systems for surgery. He has sat on and chaired many national and international committees*
concerned with protecting the public against the possible damaging effects of lasers and other artificial
light sources and played the leading role with the ICRC and addressed the United Nations to obtain a
Geneva Convention banning the use of anti-personnel laser weapons. He was the Chairman of the
Medical and Scientific Advisory Board and Trustee of the British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society 1973-2011,
and until 1995 he was Co-Chairman of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of the International
Retinitis Pigmentosa Association. He is the scientific adviser and Vice President of the National Eye
Research Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, a Fellow of the Association for
Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of
Ophthalmologists, an Honorary Fellow of The College of Optometrists, a Fellow and Director of the Laser
Institute of America, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University.
He has a Senior Achievement Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Euretina Award
of the European Society of Retinal Surgeons. In 2009 he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement
Award by the International Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the
American Academy of Ophthalmologists. He is a Fellow of several national ophthalmological societies, as
well as being elected to the European Academy of Ophthalmology. During 2011-2012 he was the Master
of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. In 2013 he was awarded the MBE in the 2013 New Year
Honours List for services to Ophthalmology and an honorary DSc from Glasgow Caledonian University. In
2015 he was awarded an honorary DSc by the London Metropolitan University.
* World Health Organisation (WHO), Non-ionizing Radiation Committee of the International
Radiological Protection Association, International Electro-Technical Commission (IEC), British Standards
Institution (BSI) European Community (EC), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Natio