Ulrich Meyer-Bothling

Who is Ulrich Meyer-Bothling?

Ulrich Meyer-Bothling is a founding member and also the Clinical Director of the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening service for Surrey in England. The service was established in 2007 and now provides diabetic retinopathy screening to over 40,000 patients in Surrey.

Meyer-Bothling is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon who practises in the South East of England, United Kingdom. He has a research background in glaucoma and specialist training in retinal diseases. He specialises in complex cataract surgery and in the 1990s was already publishing the advantages of performing small incision cataract surgery under topical anaesthesia.

Education

Meyer-Bothling spent his childhood in France, where his parents were accredited with the diplomatic service, and later in Germany. In 1980 he won a scholarship to attend the sixth form United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, UK. In 1982 he graduated from Atlantic College with the International Baccalaureate. Meyer-Bothling then attended the University of Hamburg to study Medicine. He studied Haematology at the University of Rochester, Neurology at the University of Oxford, Infectious diseases at Yale University and General Surgery at the University of Melbourne. He completed his dual MD/PhD degree in 1989.