Winfried M.K Amoaku

Winfried Amoaku is an Associate Professor/Reader in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Nottingham, and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. His subspecialty interest is medical retina diseases and uveitis. His research complements his clinical practice, and focuses on the occurrence, pathogenesis and treatments of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) diabetic retinopathy, and other retinal vascular diseases. He has a range of national and international research collaborations.

He has advised on previous Health Technology Assessments in retinal diseases. He has also served on ad hoc Advisory Boards of different pharmaceutical companies on different aspects of AMD, diabetic retinopathy and macular oedema, non-infectious uveitis, and retinal vein occlusions. He has served on the Editorial Boards of a few learned Ophthalmology journals.

He chaired the VISION 2020 UK Macular Interest Group until 2017, and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Macular Society UK (until 2015). He previously served the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) in different positions, including Senior Examiner for the Undergraduate Duke-Elder Examinations Committee, Examiner in different diets of MRCOphth/FRCOphth examinations, member of Council, Executive Committee, Training, Education, Professional Standards and Finance Committees, Chair of the Medical Retina Service Provisions Subcommittee, Vice-President and Chair of the Scientific Committee (2007-11), and President (2010-11), and has contributed to several College guidelines.