Roger Buckley

bmj;382/jul21_8/p1679/FAF1faRoger Buckley’s first ophthalmology appointment was as house surgeon at St Thomas’ before becoming registrar at Moorfields in 1975 and consultant in 1981. Two years later he became the director of the contact lens and prosthetic department, breaking new ground in dealing with medical indications for contact lens wear.He was also one of the first ophthalmologists to encourage optometrists to work in his clinics in Moorfields, a practice that is now commonplace. In 1997 he was appointed the Bausch and Lomb professor of ocular medicine at City University—the first ever chair of its kind within an optometry department—and transferred his chair to Anglia Ruskin University when he moved to Cambridge in 2004. At the same time, as he missed seeing patients, he worked as an honorary consultant at Addenbrooke’s alongside his former Moorfields’ colleague Malcolm Kerr Muir.Roger also made huge contributions as president of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA),…
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