Prof keith martin

Prof. Keith Martin is the Ringland Anderson professor and head of ophthalmology at the University of Melbourne. Keith Martin was the Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Cambridge. He was also Clinical Director for Ophthalmology and Lead Clinician for Glaucoma at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Keith Martin graduated with first class honours in Neuroscience from Cambridge University in 1990 and from Oxford University Clinical School in 1993. He trained in general medicine and neurology at the Hammersmith Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery in London and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. His Higher Specialist Training in Ophthalmology was undertaken in Cambridge before three years of Research and Clinical Fellowship Training in glaucoma with Harry Quigley at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA and Peng Khaw at the Institute of Ophthalmology, London. He established the Glaucoma Research Laboratory at the Cambridge University Centre for Brain Repair in 2005 to study the mechanisms of retinal ganglion cell death in glaucoma and to develop new treatment approaches using stem cells, gene therapy and other techniques. Professor Martin was awarded the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research / Carl Camras Translational Research Award for 2010 and the National Centre for the Refinement, Replacement and Reduction of Animals in Research Prize 2009. He also received the World Glaucoma Association Senior Clinician Scientist Award in 2011. Clinically, he specialises in the medical and surgical management of complex glaucoma in adults and children, particularly uveitic glaucoma. He is the Basic Science Section Co-Editor of the Journal of Glaucoma and the Treasurer of the World Glaucoma Association.