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Practical Medical Retina: Navigating the Net is the third instalment in the ‘practical’ range to complement Practical Uveitis and Practical Emergency Ophthalmology books. Medical Retina is one of the largest and most important subspecialties of ophthalmology. Many new and exciting treatments are happening at breakneck speed, making it difficult for ophthalmologists to keep up with developments and understand the best way to treat patients. This book, as with the other two, will provide an easy-to-understand breakdown of developments, a description of current and future therapies, and an accessible assessment of evidence, of which there is currently a bewildering amount. Key Features: Uses algorithms and flowcharts to help with decision-making processes Describes evidence and all relevant papers to understand connections to clinical scenarios for trainees and ophthalmologists Features multiple optical coherence tomography images to better illustrate disease features in an easy-to-understand manner

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Dr. Christiana Dinah is the macula service and research lead at Central Middlesex Hospital. She is the Director for Research and Innovation at LNWH and the Director for the newly established NIHR North West London Commercial Research Delivery Centre. She is also an honorary senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College, London. She completed her medical retina fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital and then became a consultant at Central Middlesex Hospital, where she set up the award-winning research department. Dr. Dinah has served as chief investigator or principal investigator in over 25 clinical trials, from Phase I to Phase IV. She has been involved in writing national guidelines, including the NICE guidelines for diabetic retinopathy. Her research interests are in AMD and retinovascular diseases, and she is passionate about patient-centric research design and inclusion in clinical research. Professor Gwyn Samuel Williams attended medical school at King’s College London and completed his ophthalmology training on the Wales circuit. He undertook a year’s fellowship in medical retina and uveitis at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, and from June 2016 onwards, he has been a consultant in Swansea, specialising in medical retina and inflammatory eye disease. He is an honorary Associate Professor at Swansea University, and from 2020 to 2023, was Llywydd of the RCOphth in Wales and Clinical Lead for Ophthalmology to the Welsh Government. At present, he is Associate Dean and Head of the School of Ophthalmology in Wales. He has a keen interest in reading, writing and hiking through the beautiful Welsh countryside, and was Plaid Cymru’s candidate for the 2019 and 2024 elections in his constituency of Swansea West.

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