RESTORING AND MAINTAINING EYESIGHT. Professor Sheng Lim is an internationally renowned ophthalmologist and consultant at St Thomas' Hospital in London. He was trained in the UK and also spent one year as the International Glaucoma Association's postdoctoral fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. He was promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology (Glaucoma Studies) at King's College London in 2020, in recognition of his contribution towards ophthalmology research. He is currently the head of ophthalmology research at St Thomas', and founder of their KCL Frost Eye Research Department, one of the largest ophthalmology clinical trial units in the UK. "My ultimate goal, as a professor in glaucoma research, is to find a cure for glaucoma and prevent blindness." "Vision is probably one of the most intimate and important sensory organs that a human being has." "In the UK and Europe we have more choices, better suited for the patients, than they have in America."
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