Alan Charles Bird (born 4 July 1938, in
Bromley, Kent
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011.
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, UK) is an English ophthalmologist, famous for his work on degenerative and hereditary diseases of the retina.
Bird was educated from 1949 to 1956 at
Bromley Grammar School and from 1956 to 1961 at
Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he studied neurology and neurosurgery and received his
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...
(equivalent of MD in the United States). From July 1961 to January 1965 he held successive appointments at several hospitals in London. From January 1964 to December 1967 he served his ophthalmic residency at
Moorfields Eye Hospital, then worked from December 1967 to June 1968 as senior registrar at the
Royal London Hospital and the
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. From July 1968 to August 1969 he held a clinical fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, working with Lawton Smith, MD. Dr. Bird returned to Moorfield's in August 1969 and from 1969 to 1976 held successive appointed to the Institute of Ophthalmology as lecturer, senior lecturer and reader and then from 1976 to 2006 as professor, simultaneously serving as consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital.
Dr. Bird is the author or co-author of more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has given numerous named lectures in Europe and North America.
He is married and the father of two children.
Awards and honours
*1981 — Duke-Elder Medal of the Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom
*1981 — Prix Chauvin, la Société Française d'Ophtalmologie
*1990 — Doyne Medal of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress
*1994 — Jackson Memorial Lectureship of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
*1994 — Kayser Award of the International Congress of Eye Research
*1997 — Donders Medal of the Netherlands Ophthalmological Society
*1997 — Gass Medal of the Macular Society
*1998 — Jules François Medal of the International Council of Ophthalmology
*2002 — Bowman Medal of the Royal College of Ophthalmology
*2004 — Helen Keller Prize of the Helen Keller Foundation
Alan Bird - Helen Keller Foundation
(with video)
*2004 — Alcon Research Award
*2008 — Laureate Recognition Award of the American Academy of Ophthalmology[
*2010 — ]Gonin Medal The Gonin Medal is an international award given to one ophthalmologist every four years by the International Council of Ophthalmology. The award is named in honor of Swiss ophthalmologist Jules Gonin. It has been said to represent "the highest achie ...
of the International Council of Ophthalmology
References
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1938 births
Living people
British ophthalmologists