Professor Ian Pearce

About me

Professor Pearce is Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon at St Paul’s Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital providing specialist services for AMD, Vitreo-Retinal surgery (including macular hole, vitreomacular traction and epiretinal membranes), Diabetic Eye Disease, Uveitis and Cataract surgery.

My personal website www.northwesteyecareconsultancy.co.uk gives more details.

He is Honorary Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Liverpool and Director of the Clinical Eye Research Centre which is an international renowned centre for national and global clinical trials of novel treatments for ocular disease.

As well as delivering numerous invited international and national lectures Professor  Pearce has authored 3 National Guidelines, > 60 publications and 3 Book Chapters.

He sits on both the Council and Professional Standards Committees for the  Royal College of Ophthalmologists and represents the college at the DVLA’s Honorary Medical Advisory Panel on Driving and Visual Disorders. He is Past-President of the Ophthalmic Imaging Association.

Professor Pearce is the nominated Specialist Clinical Expert Advisor to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the appraisal of novel technologies including Lucentis, Eylea, Ozurdex , Ocriplasmin (Jetrea) and intraocular radiotherapy. For the Department of Health he was chair of  the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens TSE Ophthalmic Sub-group.