Professor Willoughby is a Professor of Ophthalmology in Ulster University and a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust where he practices in the management of anterior segment diseases (cornea and external eye), glaucoma, cataract surgery and adult motility.
Professor Willoughby has trained in Liverpool and Canada and has worked as a clinical-academic in Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Liverpool, and Ulster University. He runs an active laboratory programme which uses genomic information and technologies to understand ocular biology and mechanisms, in health and disease states. The main aim of his research is to improve the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of two major worldwide blinding disorders: corneal blindness and glaucoma.
He was the Joint Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Open Ophthalmology (May 2016 – April 2019), is currently an Editorial Board Member (Glaucoma) for Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology and review publications for the leading international ophthalmic journals.
He is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the International Society for Eye Research and lectures nationally and internationally on glaucoma, corneal diseases and genetics.
Professional Qualifications
BSc, MB ChB, MD, FRCOphth.,
Professional body registration with number (eg. GMC/GDC)
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