Andrew Ramsay is a specialist in complex cataract surgery
currently performing approximately 3,000 operations every year. He is on the Specialist Register in
Ophthalmology of the General Medical Council (GMC). He graduated in Medicine
from the London Hospital Medical College, University of London in 1991 having
won the final year prize in Medicine. He has an honours degree in Psychology.
Mr Ramsay began his ophthalmic training at the Tenant
Institute of Ophthalmology, Glasgow before moving on to the North East of
England registrar rotation in Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. He completed his Senior Registrar training in
ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and the National Hospital for
Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen’s Square, London. He is the holder of two fellowships in both
Cornea and External Eye Disease as well as Medical Retina and Inflammatory Eye
Disease from Moorfields Eye Hospital where he undertook further subspecialist
training.
He was a Consultant in Bury St Edmunds and Cambridge from
2001-2014. Here he set up and ran a corneal service specialising in corneal
transplantation and new forms of keratoplasty. He also ran a busy retinal
service and introduced new forms of retinal laser surgery and injection
therapy. During this time he set up and ran a refractive laser service which
introduced LASIK to the region.
Since 2014, Mr Ramsay has worked in the community where he
believes that eye care can better be delivered. At ACES he has helped introduce
new laser treatments for glaucoma and ran busy general ophthalmology and
glaucoma clinics from 2014-2020.
During this time Mr Ramsay has been an international and
national examiner for the post graduate Fellowship exams of the Royal College
of Ophthalmologists and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Glasgow. He has lectured and published
nationally and internationally, and was clinical sub-dean at the University of
Cambridge. He currently operates every day, primarily as a cataract surgeon.