About Us

Alan is a consultant ophthalmologist in Glasgow. His clinical interests include shared care service delivery and complex glaucoma surgery.

Andy works at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) and holds an honorary Professor appointment at Plymouth University. He has published in excess of 50 papers and has contributed to three books. He has also recently been involved in a novel glaucoma surgery training initiative using plastic simulated eyes.

Andy trained at The Royal London Hospital, St Thomas’ Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital and St Marys Hospital (Western Eye), and also completed a MD on visual function in glaucoma at Moorfields/Institute of Ophthalmology. He undertook a clinical fellowship in glaucoma at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Infirmary, Melbourne, Australia, and also worked as a clinical researcher with the Glaucoma Inheritance Study in Tasmania (GIST), under Prof David Mackey. He is a Trustee of the Gloucestershire Eye Therapy Trust charity, and a referee for a number of journals.

Chris is a former teacher who, having studied at London and Cambridge Universities, worked at schools in both the US and UK. Moving into the advertising industry he was previously the CEO of McCann Erickson London, the biggest agency network in the world at the time. He now works for WPP, the marketing services organisation, helping to manage some of their largest international Clients. He has always tried to engage in pro bono work alongside his full-time employment and was a consultant to the Guide Dogs for the Blind on their 75th anniversary. He is now also the Chair of a small homeless charity (The Simon Community). Chris has had glaucoma for over 20 years and is really keen to try to help boost awareness of all the great things offered by Glaucoma UK to sufferers of the disease.

Chris has glaucoma and has been a Lay member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and Vice Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges patient-lay committee.  More recently, she has been our representative on the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) looking at capacity in eye hospitals.

David is a Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in glaucoma and cataract in South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Following his medical and ophthalmology training in North East England, he completed a Clinical Glaucoma Fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London. Working alongside world-leading glaucoma experts, he learned innovative surgical techniques and approaches to outpatient care. The local population of Teesside and North Yorkshire are already benefitting from this.

David passionately believes patient education is the cornerstone of successful management of the individual with glaucoma, through engagement and mutual understanding between the clinician, the patient and their loved ones. As such, he is honoured and humbled to become a Clinical Advisory Panel member for Glaucoma UK and looks forward to contributing to this on a wider scale than the day job allows.

A Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (MREH), UK since 2002, Cecilia is the lead for Glaucoma Services which comprises a specialist tertiary referral service for complex adult and paediatric glaucoma.

Her research interest is mainly clinical, including diagnostic and treatment methods for glaucoma in adults and children.

Nationally, Cecilia has a number of roles: NICE Fellow (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) for Glaucoma, and was part of the NICE Guideline Development Group for the Glaucoma Guidance of 2009 and 2017; Royal College of Ophthalmologists External Advisor; Expert Advisor to the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Authority (MHRA); and Advisor for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. In 2011 she Chaired the UK and Eire Glaucoma Society and is a founder member of the UK Paediatric Glaucoma Society. Cecilia has no commercial affiliations or interests.

Roxanne is a nurse researcher and a research nurse at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility, Moorfields Eye Hospital, and also sits on the board of the Royal College of Nursing Ophthalmic Nursing Forum. She is passionate about all aspects of ophthalmic patient care, including self-management, research and patient and public involvement/engagement.

Roxanne led on the RCN Eyes Right! Publication, aimed at increasing the knowledge of non-ophthalmic healthcare professionals. She is the PPE (Public & Patient Engagement) lead for the research department and has been involved in several projects to increase research awareness locally and nationally.

Roxanne won a Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholarship and is one of 70 nurses nationwide to be funded by the NIHR’s 70@70 Senior Nurse and Midwife Research Leader Programme to embed research into clinical practice.

Susan qualified as an optometrist in 1986. In addition to her optometry degree and professional certificates in glaucoma and medical retina, she has an MA in medical ethics and law and a PhD. Susan was awarded the Fellowship of the College of Optometrists for her contribution to the profession in 2008.

Susan has practised in a variety of community optometric settings and was Clinical Adviser for the College of Optometrists for 19 years. She currently works as Optometric Adviser for NHS England South East, and as a Case Examiner for the General Optical Council.

James is Professor of Ophthalmology at Cardiff University and Consultant Ophthalmologist at the University Hospital of Wales. He leads the OpenEyes electronic patient record development group. His laboratory research is focused on developing treatments to reverse vision loss in glaucoma.

I have been a Consultant Ophthalmologist in the Glaucoma Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust for over 10 years. I have a research interest in clinical trials of new drug treatments and drug delivery. Awarded a Doctorate in Medicine for work in wound healing after glaucoma surgery and review the outcomes of trabeculectomy surgery for the Trust.

Julian was diagnosed with glaucoma over 30 years ago and has been a member of Glaucoma UK since the early 1990s.

Until 2010 Julian worked as an independent economic consultant for the United Nations in Ukraine, the Board of Europe and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Before that, he worked for the Bank of England and the Civil Service, and as an economist with the Ministry of Overseas Development advising on the feasibility of UK aid projects.

Laura Crawley is a consultant ophthalmologist and Head of Specialty at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust with specialist interests in glaucoma and cataract surgery.

Leon is a consultant ophthalmologist at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.

His major areas of expertise are glaucoma, cornea related problems and cataract.

Yolanda Laybourne has served on the Board of Trustees since March 2014 and is standing for re-election. She also serves on the charity’s Finance and Governance Committees and was appointed as Trustee Fundraising Advocate in 2015. She is a committed champion of patients’ interests.

A graduate of the Institut Francais (Universites de Lille et de la Sorbonne) in London, she moved to France and the United States to work with international legal and financial institutions before returning to England.

For the past 25 years Yolanda has project-managed community regeneration programmes in Kent and East Sussex and has served as a trustee for regional charitable and not-for-profit organisations, with responsibility for managing budgets consisting of grants and member contributions. She has also been an active charity fund-raiser, co-ordinating a team of volunteers.

Yolanda holds executive positions and is currently working with four MPs to deliver a regional strategic rail project. She chairs a group of area Local Authorities delivering an imaginative regional heritage project and has chaired her area Police Panel.

She is concerned with inclusion and access, especially for younger people and those with visual and hearing impairments. With a family history of glaucoma, she was diagnosed with ocular hypertension in 2010.

 Nick is consultant ophthalmologist and director of medical services at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Pankaj is a consultant ophthalmologist in Edinburgh.  His main interest is shared care glaucoma services and patient awareness in glaucoma. He started the first patient support group meeting in Scotland with Glaucoma UK, and works for patient support and awareness not just in the UK but across the world.​

Prabhakar Sundaresan joined the Board of Trustees in 2022. Prabhakar is an ex-financial services professional experienced in Treasury and Capital Markets. Having worked in Standard Chartered bank for over 20 years in India, Singapore and London, he is currently the Director of Finance and Resources at Barts Charity London. Prabhakar was actively involved with preventable blindness while at Standard Chartered Bank as a member of the Executive Management team of Seeing is Believing, a partnership between the bank and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. Until recently, Prabhakar was the Director of Finance and Facilities at St Luke’s Hospice London. Prabhakar also served as Chair of West Hampstead Community Association until 2018.

Anthony is currently a consultant ophthalmologist with a subspecialist interest in glaucoma at Nottingham University Hospital, and an Honorary Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Nottingham. He runs a tertiary referral glaucoma service and a glaucoma fellowship program.

His primary research interest is in the clinical management of glaucoma, particularly advanced glaucoma, and he is particularly interested in patients’ preferences for the management of their condition. Anthony is the Royal College of Ophthalmologists clinical lead for the development of a glaucoma surgery audit tool, which will lead to the establishment of a National Ophthalmic Database of all practising glaucoma surgeons.

Gus is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. He is Professor of Ophthalmology (Glaucoma Studies) at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London and is currently Director of the Glaucoma service at Moorfields.

Roshini Sanders graduated from Glasgow University and undertook her ophthalmology training in Glasgow, Dundee and London. She has one of the largest cohorts of glaucoma patients in south east Scotland. She was Chair and founder member of the Scottish Glaucoma Club in 2004 and ran the Scottish Glaucoma Symposium from 1999 to 2020. She chaired the SIGN referral guidelines for Scotland in 2015. Besides glaucoma, her main interests and research are in training and digital ophthalmology. In 2010 she chaired the Eyecare Integration Programme (Scottish government) that electronically connected all community optometry to health boards to enable rapid referral with image information. The images from this programme enabled the global MSc and ChM ophthalmology programmes through the University of Edinburgh. She is the co-programme director for these courses. She is also an Ophthalmology Advisor to NHS Education and is Ophthalmology Research Lead at the Chief Scientist Office, Edinburgh.

Rani is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Bristol Eye Hospital with special interest in glaucoma and neuro ophthalmology. Her current area of interest is in uveitis associated glaucoma, non-penetrating glaucoma.

Rashmi Mathew is a Consultant Ophthalmologist with a special interest in glaucoma. She is heavily involved in Medical Education and is the Deputy Director for Undergraduate Education at  Moorfields and is the Glaucoma Module Lead for the MSc in Ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology. She is also the Lead for New Consultant and Resident Leadership Training.  She has a huge advocate for patient education and has been running Glaucoma Patient Information Days since 2011.

Ray has been a member of Glaucoma UK for many years having received good advice from the association followed by successful laser treatment for acute angle glaucoma. He retired in February 2014 after 20 years as Managing Director of the Farmers Co-operative Kent Wool Growers (KWG) and as a non-executive director of Novagas an LPG bottling and distribution company in which KWG had a shareholding.

Robert is an Optometrist Consultant at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, an Honorary Professor of Optometry in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester and a Visiting Professor in Optometry at City, University of London.

Shabbir is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon based at the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation trust. His main sub-specialist interests include medical, laser and surgical management of patients with glaucoma.

Having had both a career in optometry spanning more than 40 years and the personal experience of being a glaucoma patient for the last 10 years, Stephen is well placed to make a valuable contribution as a trustee of Glaucoma UK as well as a member of the Clinical Advisory Panel.

Stephen worked as an optometrist and co-owner of a group of six practices in the North West of England, and particularly valued his involvement in their shared-care activities in Diabetic Eye Screening, Cataract Direct Referral and Ocular Hypertension Refinement. Retirement has provided Stephen with an excellent opportunity to commit more time to Glaucoma UK.

Teresa has glaucoma and wants to both understand and be involved with glaucoma in a broader sense and at a more strategic level.

Teresa is an architect with over 35 years’ experience and can bring professionalism, leadership and diplomacy to the board. She has a keen interest in the underlying issues that influence the design, planning and delivery of better homes and places. She believes that good design, coupled with an intelligent use of money and a commitment to social and environmental change is a force for good – and that these are valuable and relevant transferable skills.

Winnie is a consultant ophthalmologist working in the glaucoma service at Moorfields Eye Hospital. In her clinical practice, she manages patients with complex primary and secondary glaucoma who often need surgery and are at a high risk of losing vision due to glaucoma.

Winnie is active in research focussing on diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma in low-income populations and is Honorary Associate Professor at the International Centre for Eye Health which is based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is helping develop a program of glaucoma research in West and East Africa and was the glaucoma lead for the trabeculectomy training course in Korle bu Hospital, Ghana.

Wojciech is a Consultant Ophthalmologist with a special interest in Glaucoma at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He has an interest in the processes of commissioning and payment for health care, supporting the RCOphth and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.