David Spalton is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, London, and is Honorary Consultant to the Royal Hospital Chelsea (the Chelsea Pensioners) and King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers, London. He is also the Civilian Advisor in Ophthalmology to the Metropolitan Police.

He qualified at Westminster Medical School, London, where he won the Undergraduate Prize for Ophthalmology. He progressed to do his ophthalmic training at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Following this, he did a Fellowship in uveitis and neuro-ophthalmology at St Thomas' Hospital and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London. He was appointed Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital in 1980, and then moved back to St Thomas' Hospital in 1983, being Clinical Director of Ophthalmology from 1990-2000. He has Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

He is known internationally for his interest in cataract surgery, uveitis and neuro-ophthalmology. At St Thomas' Hospital, he runs the largest research group on cataract surgery in the United Kingdom. The research is focused on posterior capsular opacification, intraocular lens design and biocompatibility. He has published over 130 papers in academic journals, and his book, An Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology, won the prize for the best medical textbook of the year when it was published in 1985. It is now in its third edition and is published in seven languages, being one of the five most widely read ophthalmic textbooks worldwide.

He is a member of the board, and President Elect, of the United Kingdom Cataract and Refractive Surgery Society, and a member of the Program & Scientific Research Committees for the European Cataract and Refractive Surgery Society, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He lectures widely around the world. In the recent past, this has included invitations to speak in Saudi Arabia, the USA, Australia and Germany, and he was one of eight eye surgeons worldwide (the only one from the UK) to receive an 'Innovation Award' from Alcon Laboratories in the USA for his research on intraocular lens design. Recently, he has been a guest lecturer at the DGII in Germany, the Pakistan Ophthalmological Society and the Swedish Ophthalmic Society, the Japanese Cataract Society, and the South African Ophthalmological Society. He gave the 'Partnership Lecture' at Optometry 2001, and the Choyce Medal Lecture at the annual United Kingdom Cataract and Refractive Surgery Society Meeting. He is cited in Who’s Who Worldwide and Debrett’s Distinguished People of Today.

Specific details of Mr Spalton’s work, qualifications, and publications may be seen below.

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