Keith Barton

About Keith Barton

The motivation behind my work in the last 12-18 months has been the same as the last 28 years, i.e., to be an advocate for the many patients with advanced and or complex glaucomas requiring surgical management, but who, in the past, have been ignored by commercial innovation and who have only been served with relatively crude surgical techniques, as this group of patients is not perceived to represent a large enough unmet need to be commercially attractive.

Additionally, I find it worrying that I seem to see increasing numbers of patients who are told that their problems are "too complicated" or that "nothing can be done,” in situations where that is not the case.

While I have been using surgical videos to illustrate my points for almost as long as I've been doing trabs and putting in tubes, social media, especially youtube, has made it possible to reach a much wider audience and with greater detail in surgical methods and techniques than has ever been possible with conferences. The ability to do this has provided a massive incentive to try and reach this wider audience, in the hope that others will take up the challenge.

Resulting from this I have been greatly honoured in 2026, having been invited to give four named lectures in Rome, Madrid, Galway, and Copenhagen by four prestigious societies.