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Dr Tas Braithwaite is a Consultant Ophthalmologist to The Medical Eye Unit at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. She specialises in inflammatory eye disease (including uveitis and scleritis) and neuro-ophthalmology. She works with a super multidisciplinary team at St Thomas’, where she cares for a lot of patients affected by ocular and multisystem sarcoidosis.

She leads a research team at King’s College London. Through collaboration with colleagues and patients around the UK and internationally, her research seeks new understanding about the risk factors for developing autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases, including sarcoidosis, and the many and complicated impacts of inflammatory eye disease and its treatment on quality of life.

She is passionate about advancing high-quality, evidence-based, personalised medical care. To this end, she has contributed a chapter on, ‘The Eye in General Medicine,’ in the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, published dozens of research papers, and serves as a Contact Editor for Cochrane Eyes and Vision.

Carlos Pavesio

Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

University College London

Carlos Pavesio is Professor of Ocular Inflammation and Infection at UCL in London and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK. He was the Medical Retina Service Director between 2008 and 2016 and is currently Co-Director of the Uveitis Service at Moorfields. He is the Uveitis theme leader for the Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Ophthalmology, London.  He is also Director of the Fellowship Programme at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Chairman of the Infection Control Committee.

Professor Pavesio is a member of many international ophthalmological societies, including IOIS (International Ocular Inflammation Society), IUSG (International Uveitis Study Group). He was a board member for the SOE and EUPO (European Union of Professors of Ophthalmology).

For over 10 years he has been the organiser of the Uveitis Programme for EURETINA and SOE, apart from having organised more than 10 International Uveitis Courses, both in the UK and abroad.

He has given more than 300 lectures both in the UK and Internationally. He was visiting Professor of Ophthalmology in New Zealand in 2009 and HMDP Visiting Expert in Ophthalmology – Uveitis, Intraocular Inflammation, Medical Retina in Singapore in 2014. He has also been a faculty member for the Cole Eye Institute Uveitis Course held in Cleveland, USA.

Professor Pavesio is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection and a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Ophthalmology, Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, International Ophthalmology, and Journal of Ocular Infections and Inflammation and Ophthalmology. He has co-edited five books in Ophthalmology and has authored more than 30 book chapters. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications in the field.

Mark Westcott

Moorfields Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Royal London Hospital

Mark is a consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital specialising in uveitis, and at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the Royal London Hospital where he specialises in glaucoma. His resident training in ophthalmology was in London, and during this time he pursued research leading to a MD thesis in visual function in glaucoma.

In 2000, Mark was invited to spend a fellowship year at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles. Thereafter he returned to Moorfields Eye Hospital to obtain specialist fellowship experience in uveitis, glaucoma and cataract surgery.

Mark has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific papers and presented over 30 times at international meetings. He is an honorary Reader at Queen Mary University, London.

He continues to play an active role in research at Moorfields, particularly in uveitis.

Mark lives in Central London with his wife and two sons. In his spare time he indulges a passion for amateur astronomy. He also used to coach junior rugby.