词条 | Alan C. Bird |
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Bird was educated from 1949 to 1956 at Bromley Grammar School and from 1956 to 1961 at Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he studied neurology and neurosurgery and received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (equivalent of MD in the United States). From July 1961 to January 1965 he held successive appointments at several hospitals in London. From January 1964 to December 1967 he served his ophthalmic residency at Moorfields Eye Hospital, then worked from December 1967 to June 1968 as senior registrar at the Royal London Hospital and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. From July 1968 to August 1969 he held a clinical fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, working with Lawton Smith, MD. Dr. Bird returned to Moorfield's in August 1969 and from 1969 to 1976 held successive appointed to the Institute of Ophthalmology as lecturer, senior lecturer and reader and then from 1976 to 2006 as professor, simultaneously serving as consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital.[2] {{blockquote|In order to contribute fully to research, Dr. Bird spent a sabbatical period with Dean Bok, MD, at UCLA in 1985. In addition to his work in London, he has also spent time in Africa undertaking research into river blindness. Most notable was the finding that retinal and optic nerve disease was the main cause of blindness, rather than corneal scarring, and that the standard treatment of diethyl carbamizine citrate caused rapid onset of blindness. This led to the institution of ivermectin as the preferred treatment, which has been highly successful. He has also worked in Jamaica recording the retinal changes in sickle cell disease over a 20-year period in a well-studied cohort generated by Graham Serjeant, MD.[3]}}Dr. Bird is the author or co-author of more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has given numerous named lectures in Europe and North America. He is married and the father of two children. Awards and honours
References1. ^{{cite book|author=Goes, Frank Joseph|title=The Eye in History|chapter=Alan C. Bird|year=2013|publisher=Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers|pages=10–11|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0oL8xDJ0VEC&pg=PA10}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bird, Alan C.}}2. ^Alan Charles Bird, Curriculum Vitae, vision-research.eu 3. ^1 2008 Laureate Award: Alan C. Bird, MD 4. ^Alan Bird - Helen Keller Foundation (with video) 3 : 1938 births|Living people|British ophthalmologists |
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