OSWI Sponsors’ Newsletter September 2016
READ MOREDr. Nigel Barker FRCOphth., MBA.
Medical Director and CEO Consultant Ophthalmologist & Specialist in Cornea, External Diseases and Refractive Surgery.
With an emphasis on continuing education, seeking out safe, new medical developments, service delivery and patient care, Dr. Barker is acknowledged as an outstanding practitioner in his medical field in Barbados and the Caribbean.A Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, he is a consultant ophthalmologist, whose subspecialty is Cornea, External Diseases & Refractive Surgery.The principal of Warrens Eye Care Centre, (WECC), and Corneal Services Barbados, (CSB), he also holds an MBA, with distinction, from Durham Business School, UK.Dr. Barker received his MBBS from the University of the West Indies, (UWI). Following postgraduate training at the University of Glasgow, he completed two fellowships: at the Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia and Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia.Dr. Barker established WECC in 2001. It offers a full range of ophthalmic services to patients in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.
At this time the only corneal specialist in Barbados, Dr. Barker is also only one of two trained CXL specialists in the English speaking Caribbean.
READ MOREDr. Leon Vaughan
- Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon
- Head, Department of Ophthalmology Bustamante Hospital
- Director Winchester Surgical and Medical Institute
- Director Glaucoma Diagnostic Unit. Areas of interest include : Adult Anterior segment surgery, Cataract
- Vice President (Ophthalmological Society of Jamaica) – 2015 -Present
Dr. Rajrishi Sharma UK MB ChB, BSc (Hons), FRCPS (Glas), FRCOphth
He is a UK trained Ophthalmologist specializing in Vitreretinal Surgery. During his specialist training at the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavillion in Edinburgh, Scotland, he helped set up the first Vitreoretinal service in Lillongwe, Malawi. On completion of this he returned home to set up the first Hospital Vitreoretinal service in Trinidad and Tobago. He continues to provide Vitreoretinal care to patients on both islands as well as being involved in training junior doctors and allied health care professionals at both the undergrad and post graduate levels.
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