Mr Ulrich Meyer-Bothling

Ulrich Meyer-Bothling  is an ophthalmic surgeon and research scientist. He is founding member and past Clinical Director of the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening service for Surrey. Meyer-Bothling is a senior consultant eye surgeon who practises in the South East of England, United Kingdom. He has a research background in glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy and specialist training in retinal diseases. He specialises in complex cataract surgery and already in the 1990s he began publishing the advantages of performing small incision cataract surgery under topical anaesthesia. Meyer-Bothling spent his childhood in France, where his parents were accredited with the diplomatic service, and later in Germany. In 1980 he won a scholarship to attend the sixth form United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, UK, from which he graduated with the International Baccalaureate. Meyer-Bothling then attended the University of Hamburg (Germany) to study Medicine. He studied Haematology at the University of Rochester (USA), Neurology at the University of Oxford (UK), Infectious diseases at Yale University (USA) and General Surgery at the University of Melbourne (Australia). He then completed his dual MD/PhD degree. For his research on T-Lymphocyte subsets in Myasthenia gravis Meyer-Bothling received a PhD (magna cum laude) from the University of Hamburg. From 1990 to 1992 Meyer-Bothling was a research fellow at the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology in Oxford. He was awarded a Master of Science from the University of Oxford for exploring the role of serotonin and related substances in the regulation of intraocular pressure. His clinical residency was spent at the University of Hamburg, where he left in 1997 as a specialist in retinal surgery. He became one of three partners in a large day surgery centre in Hamburg. In 2000 Meyer-Bothling left Hamburg to do further clinical work and research as a fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. In 2002 he was appointed Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon by Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust, where he runs speciality services in cataract, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Meyer-Bothling has a wide referral base for his private practice, which operates from various locations in Surrey, Middlesex and West London. in 2008 Meyer-Bothling was appointed Clinical Director of the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service in Surrey, a post which he held for several years. Meyer-Bothling has published his scientific research, in his early years predominantly glaucoma related (Neurobiology of Serotonin), later he published mainly clinical research. He co-authored the standard textbook "Emergency Medicine" (ophthalmology section), and the OPHDA Ophthalmology databank.

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