Rupert Bourne (Prof)

Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon

Coordinator, Vision Loss Expert Group and Global Vision database (GVD); Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Hinchingbrooke/Addenbrookes Moorfields Eye Hospital; Professor of Ophthalmology, Vision & Eye Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.

Latest Contribution

Cataract incidence rates in patients from the UK suffering with diabetes mellitus

1 October 2018 | | Cataract and Refractive, Ophthalmology

The authors summarise the main findings from a recent study which investigated the incidence rates of cataract in patients with or without diabetes mellitus (DM). Background to the study Worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 253 million people...

The Global Vision Database

1 December 2015 | | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Oculoplastics, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous

The overall goal of the Global Vision Database (GVD) [1] is to develop and deploy new and improved evidence on the prevalence of blindness and vision impairment (VI) globally. It is a repository which allows us to assess the causes...