Consultant Profile

Mr Joe Devereux BSc Hons, MBBS, FRCOpth

Practising at: Ashford and Margate

Specialties: Cataract Surgery, Lacrimal Disorders, Oculoplastic Surgery, Ophthalmology

Special clinical interests: Small incision phacoemulsification, cataract surgery, Blepharoplasty, Botox®, Ptosis Entropion and ectropion correction

Current NHS and /or university posts: Consultant Ophthalmic and Oculoplastic Surgeon, East Kent Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies: The British Oculoplastic Surgeons Society, The Royal College of Ophthalmologists

Background Information

Mr Devereux qualified as a doctor from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London and trained in London where he worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital and the University of London.

Part of Mr Devereux's fellowship was spent in Mongolia and then two years running a glaucoma surgery trial in Singapore.

His higher surgical training was completed at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where he also undertook a fellowship in Oculoplastic and lacrimal (tear duct surgery).

While at Cambridge Mr Devereux trained in the surgical management of functional and cosmetic abnormalities of the eyelid and lacrimal system.