Meet the team Who's behind the Moorfields Reading Centre?

Clinical Trials & Image Grading

Image of Dr Konstantinos Balaskas

Expertise: Image Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Trials, Digital Eye Health.

Dr Konstantinos Balaskas

Director of Reading Centre
Image of Khadra Adan

Expertise: Virtual Clinics, Managing Clinical Trials.

Khadra Adan

Senior Virtual Clinics Grader and Failsafe officer
Image of Dr Dun Jack Fu

Expertise: Geographic Atrophy, Molecular biology, Gene therapy, Genetics, Large data analysis

Dr Dun Jack Fu

Investigator
Image of Dr Estelle Ioannidou

Expertise: Clinical Research, OCTA, NLP

Dr Estelle Ioannidou

Clinical Research Fellow
Image of Rosana Lia Lima

Expertise: Grader

Rosana Lia Lima

Senior Ophthalmic Science Practitioner/Grader

Expertise: Clinical Research.

Dr Ana Paula Ribeiro Reis

Clinical Research Fellow
Image of Dr Cathy Egan

Diabetic Retinopathy, Macular Telangiectasia type II, Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Clinical Trials

Dr Cathy Egan

Diabetic Retinopathy Lead/ MacTel study Lead

Expertise: Grading, Clinical Trials, Nutrition.

Dr Daniela Florea

Image Grader

Expertise: Ophthalmic Research, Grading.

Georgina Wignall

Senior Ophthalmic Science Practitioner and Grader

Expertise: Grading.

Nisha Shah

Image Grader

Medical Retina, MacTel, Clinical Trials, Image Analysis

Tjebo Heeren

Research Fellow

Image Analysis, Big Data Science, Artificial Intelligence

Dr Philipp Müller

Honorary Research Fellow

Image analysis, optical coherence tomography angiography

Dr Hagar Khalid

Visiting Research Fellow

Expertise: Grading.

Irene Leung

Senior Expert Grader

Expertise: Virtual Clinics.

Alexandra Winston

Senior Virtual Clinics Grader

Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

Expertise: Data Science, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Genetics & Bioinformatics.

Dr Nikolas Pontikos

Deputy Director and Data Science Lead

Expertise: Data Science, Software Development, Image Analysis, AI, Deep Learning.

Dr Ismail Moghul

Senior Computer Scientist

Expertise: Medical Retina, Clinical Trials, Image Analysis, AI, Deep Learning.

Dr Gunjan Naik

Senior Computer Scientist

Expertise: Multi-modal Imaging, Image Analysis, AI, Deep Learning.

Dr Pallavi Bagga

Senior Computer Scientist

Expertise: Deep Learning, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence.

Gongyu Zhang

AI Computer Scientist

Rishi Ramessur

Fellow in Clinical Artificial Intelligence, AI Centre for Value-based Healthcare and Moorfields Eye Hospital

Expertise: Data Science, Software Development, Image Analysis, Computer Vision and Ophthalmologic applications with AI/ML.

Dr Alan Sousa da Silva

Senior Scientific Programmer and Data Scientist

Expertise: Deep Learning, Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence

Robbert Struyven

AI Computer Scientist

Expertise: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Genetics & Bioinformatics.

Timing Liu

AI Computer Scientist

Expertise: Epidemiology, biostatistics, image analysis, oculomics, data science

Dr Siegfried Wagner

MRC Clinical Research Training, Specialty Registrar in Ophthalmology

Operational Management & Business Support

Project Manager for the Reading Centre

Craig Mc Leisch

Project Manager

Digital Innovation Programme Manager

Claire Lovegrove

Project Manager

External collaborators & advisers

Big Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Diabetic Retinopathy, Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Adnan Tufail

Professor of Ophthalmology
Image of Cathy Egan

Macular Telangiectasia type II, Diabetic Retinopathy, Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Cathy Egan

Consultant Ophthalmologist, Diabetic Retinopathy Lead

Expertise: Image Interpretation and Diagnosis, Retinal Disease, Applied Clinical and Translational Research

Pearse Keane

Professor of Medical Artificial Intelligence

International Glaucoma Association Professor of Ophthalmology for Glaucoma & Allied Studies

Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK

Ted Garway-Heath

International Glaucoma Association Professor of Ophthalmology for Glaucoma & Allied Studies

Inherited Eye Disease, Diabetic Eye Disease, Clinical Trials, Gene Therapy

Michel Michaelides

Professor of Ophthalmology

Electrophysiology, inherited eye disease, clinical trials

Tony Robson

Professor of Ophthalmology