Charles Claoue

Professor Charles Claoué was Senior Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Queen's Hospital, BHR University Hospitals NHS Trust, and is currently in independent private practice in London. He worked in the NHS from 1981 and specialises in advanced cataract surgery, intraocular lens design, corneal transplantation, corneal (Femto-LASIK) and lens refractive surgery (including PRELEX). In 2017 he founded EYE-LAW CHAMBERS to improve standards in medicolegal ophthalmology. He is the only ophthalmologist...See more

Professor Charles Claoué was Senior Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Queen's Hospital, BHR University Hospitals NHS Trust, and is currently in independent private practice in London. He worked in the NHS from 1981 and specialises in advanced cataract surgery, intraocular lens design, corneal transplantation, corneal (Femto-LASIK) and lens refractive surgery (including PRELEX). In 2017 he founded EYE-LAW CHAMBERS to improve standards in medicolegal ophthalmology. He is the only ophthalmologist in the United Kingdom who has been a Clinical Lead for Organ Donation. Professor Claoué trained at the University of Cambridge, St.Thomas' Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, and holds academic links to the Universities of London, Pretoria, Ulster and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has been Secretary to both UKISCRS and the British Society for Refractive Surgery. He is Liveryman Guardant of the Society of Apothecaries Guild, and Freeman of The City of London. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles as well as book chapters and edited an early text-book on refractive surgery. He is a council member of The Academy of Experts and a member of the International Intraocular Implant Club. Amongst his many achievements, he was the first surgeon to describe PRELEX (PREsbyopic Lens EXchange). He was a founding member of the International Society of Bilateral Surgeons (iSBCS) as an early protagonist of ISBCS. Outside of medicine, his interests include classic cars, history and farming. See less