Mr Eric Barnes is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Newcastle Eye Centre, Royal Victoria Infirmary specialising in cataract surgery, watery eyes and diseases of the eyelid.
Mr Barnes graduated from St George’s Hospital Medical School (1988) and trained at Chelsea and Westminster, Charing Cross, St Thomas’s Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, including an extended oculoplastic fellowship.
He was appointed as a Consultant at the RVI in 2001 and has a clinical interest in cataract surgery, peri-ocular tumours, eyelid malposition and watery eyes.
With an equally keen interest in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, Mr Barnes has been responsible for delivering the undergraduate ophthalmic course at Newcastle University since 2002.
He is involved in developing and delivering national courses in peri-ocular tumours and hosted the British Oculoplastic Surgeons Society annual conference in Newcastle (2008). Ophthalmic Audit Clinical lead since 2012.
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