Squint forum 2022

Mr Peter Thomas is the Chief Clinical Information Officer and Director of Digital Medicine at Moorfields Eye Hospitals. His primary interest is in digital transformation of clinical care, and creation of a hospital environment that can embed and sustain technologically enabled and automated services. To achieve this, he has recently founded the UK’s first Department of Digital Medicine. In 2022 he was named as “CCIO of the year” in the annual Digital Health Awards. By clinical training he is a paediatric ophthalmologist. He is national clinical lead for eyecare at NHS Digital and sits on the NHSE Remote Monitoring Board. Prior to medicine Peter undertook his PhD in computational neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and spent time working in research and development at IBM.

Professor Anna Horwood has been a practising orthoptist since the 1970’s and since 1997 has also been involved with research at the University of Reading, working with Prof. Tricia Riddell on accommodation, convergence and their linkages. These fundamental processes impinge on many aspects of concomitant strabismus, as well as accommodative anomalies. Working with colleagues in a School of Psychology, a recent interest has been psychological aspects of accommodative and functional problems, which seem to be more prevalent since the pandemic.