David Garway-Heath

About David Garway-Heath

David Garway-Heath

IGA Professor of Ophthalmology for Glaucoma and Allied Studies, University of London; Consultant Ophthalmologist, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London

Research by David (Ted) Garway-Heath has provided many new tools that are in widespread use today. These include the Moorfields Motion Displacement Test; The Moorfields Regression Analysis, a software program for imaging performance in tomography; and the Garway-Heath Map, used in research to establish the correlation between visual field and optic nerve hypoplasia changes. In addition, his work on the UK Glaucoma Treatment Study showed that it was possible to reduce considerably the period needed to identify treatment effects, thus increasing the likelihood of bringing new drugs more quickly and more cost-effectively to patients.