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2023/2024 Highlights
Highlights of
our year
UKRI (UK Research and
Innovation) awarded £13
million for 22 AI health
Ophthalmologist Power List
2023 highlights the 100
most influential people in
Friends of Moorfields
research projects including for
volunteering service funded by
Professor Pearse Keane’s AI
the charity featured in
research at Moorfields.
landmark NHS Volunteering
Taskforce report.
The Ophthalmologist’s
inaugural Hall of Fame - two of
the world of ophthalmology
Summer appeal launch for a
the ten people honoured were
including Louisa Wickham,
Spectralis scanner for
from Moorfields: Professor
medical director at Moorfields
Moorfields to help accelerate
David (Ted) Garway-Heath and
and trustee of the charity.
clinical research.
Professor Sir Peng Khaw.
Apr
Jun
May
Aug
Jul
Sep
Charity moves to new offices
New integrated centre for
Moorfields’ Stars 2023 – Sarah
in Provost Street close to
advancing eye health breaking
Canning, head of optometry at
Moorfields Eye Hospital.
ground celebration to mark
Moorfields, won the Charity
the start of construction with
Champion award for her year
leadership donors attending.
of challenges fundraising for
Mental Health Awareness
Week – the charity is funding
a new health and wellbeing
Charity sponsored a keynote
advisor position in
speaker and prizes at the Child
collaboration with NHS
Vision Research Society
Charities Together supporting
conference at Great Ormond
Moorfields staff.
Street Hospital.
Charity staff
Breaking ground
the charity! The Moorfields Eye
Charity award for innovation
and service improvement was
won by Dr Aadil Kazi, NIHR
Moorfields biomedical research
centre manager.
Landmark review of glaucoma
research led by Moorfields and
UCL researchers Professor Gus
Gazzard and Dr Hari Jayaram
is published in The Lancet
[8]
.
