Professor Alistair Fielder

Professor of Ophalmology: Leader Visual Development and Amblyopia stream

0207 0403406
a.fielder@city.ac.uk

Academic and Professional Qualifications / Membership

1966   MBBS Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery, London University
1974   FRCS, Royal College of Surgeons, London
1993   FRCOphth, Royal College of Ophthalmologists
1994   FRCP, Royal College of Physicians of London

Brief outline of Career History

Consultant ophthalmologist, then professor of ophthalmology over the past 20 years in Leicester, Birmingham and Imperial College London, moving to City University in 2005.  Honorary consultant to St Mary’s and Hillingdon Hospitals.

Programme-related teaching responsibilities

  • Contributor to the year 3 paediatric programme

Professional Activities outside the University

  • Medical Research Council, member of College of Experts
  • The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, Institutional Reviewer
  • Vision 2020 UK, Vice Chairman
  • Royal National Institute of the Blind, National Assembly member
  • Royal College of Ophthalmologists, examiner
  • British Orthoptic Journal, Editorial Board
  • Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, Subject Editor

Research Interests

The developing visual system with particular emphasis on preterm birth and its effects on the visual system, retinopathy of prematurity, amblyopia and vision impairment in childhood

Details of 3 recent publications

  • Gilbert C, Fielder A, Gordillo L, Quinn G, Semiglia R Visintin P, Zin A, on behalf of the International NO-ROP Group.  Characteristics of babies with severe retinopathy of prematurity in countries with low, moderate and high levels of development: implications for screening programmes.  Pediatrics 2005; 115: e518-e525
  • Haines L, Fielder AR, Baker H, Wilkinson AR.  UK population based study of severe retinopathy of prematurity: screening, treatment and outcome. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005; 90: 240-244
  • Stewart CE, Fielder A R, Stephens DA, Moseley MJ, on behalf of the MOTAS Cooperative. Treatment of unilateral amblyopia: factors influencing visual outcome.
    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2005; 46: 3152-3160