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EDUCATION

1992 - 1997 MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery)

Medical School

University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

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2007 - 2013 MRCOphth and FRCOphth

Specialty Registrar Ophthalmology

Eastern Deanery (Cambridgeshire and Essex), UK

2013 - 2015 Vitreoretinal Fellowships

University Hospitals of Leicester and Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, UK

Patel Gordon-Bennett MBBS, FRCOphth

Mrs Gordon-Bennett is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon at Nuffield Health Chichester, Goring Hall Hospital BMI, Panacea Medical Centre Worthing. She has worked in the NHS since 2003 and at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust from 2015 to 2023.

 

Her areas of expertise are cataract, macular hole, macular epiretinal membrane, macular degeneration, retinal detachment, vitreous floaters, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular occlusion and general ophthalmic conditions.

 

At University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, she was the Clinical Lead for the West Sussex Diabetic Eye Screening Program and Clinical Laser Expert. She also performed screening of premature babies for Retinopathy of Prematurity. 

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Mrs Gordon-Bennett completed her ophthalmology training in Cambridgeshire as Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London in 2013. She then completed two Vitreoretinal fellowships in Birmingham Midland Eye Centre and Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2015. She possesses a wealth of experience in Ophthalmology having worked in a number of hospitals across the UK and also in Jamaica. 


She has published on a range of topics in Ophthalmology, including macular hole, retinal detachment, central serous chorioretinopathy, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and endophthalmitis. 


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MEMBERSHIPS

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Royal College of Ophthalmologists

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American Academy of Ophthalmology

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British and Eire Association of Vitreoretinal Surgeons

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British Medical Association

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PUBLICATIONS

“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”

- Claude Bernard -

  1. Maguire MJ, Laidlaw A, Hammond C, Muqit MMK, Steel D, Dinah C, Lee E, Hillier R, Almeida G, Hussain R, Gordon-Bennett P, Hughes E, Alexander P, Vaideanu-Collins D, Jackson T.
    Vitrectomy as an Adjunct to Treat-and-Extend Anti-VEGF Injections for Diabetic Macular Edema: The Vitrectomy in Diabetic Macular Oedema (VIDEO) Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA Ophthalmol. 2024 Sep 1;142(9):837-844. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2024.2777.PMID: 39115867 Clinical Trial.
     

  2. Ibanez-Bruron MC, Solebo AL, Cumberland PM, Rahi JS; Diabetic Eye Disease in Childhood Study (DECS) group. Vulnerabilities in diabetic eye screening for children and young people in England. Pediatr Diabetes. 2019 Nov;20(7):932-940. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12887. Epub 2019 Jul 11. PMID: 31270908.
     

  3. Soon Wai Ch'ng, Patel Gordon-Bennett, Guzaliya Safiullina, Partha Ray Chaudhuri. Anatomical and visual outcomes of phacoemulsification and 23-gauge pars plana vitrectomy assisted with perfluorocarbon and 27-gauge twin-chandelier endoillumination for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment  Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research, Year 2018, Volume 6, Issue 3
    [p. 99-103]. DOI: 10.4103/jcor.jcor_99_17. 
     

  4. Patel Gordon-Bennett, Sara Padroni, Shamfa Peart, P Ray Chaudhuri. Reoperation for unclosed large macular holes following primary vitrectomy with wide internal limiting membrane peel. Journal of Clinical Ophthalmology and Research, Year 2018, Volume 6, Issue 1 [p. 26-29] DOI: 10.4103/jcor.jcor_19_17.
     

  5. Peart S, Ramsay A, Khan QA, Leong T, Gordon-Bennett P. Large, Spontaneous Macular Hole with Posterior Pole Detachment in a Patient with Best Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy. Case Rep Ophthalmol. 2019 Aug 6;10(2):221-226.
    doi: 10.1159/000501845. PMID: 31692623; PMCID: PMC6760364.
     

  6. Gordon-Bennett P, Poyser A, Voyatzis G, Ramirez-Florez S. Is there an association between Vogt-Koyonagi-Harada syndrome and intracranial meningioma? BMJ Case Rep. 2012 May 26;2012:bcr1120115262.
    doi: 10.1136/bcr.11.2011.5262. PMID: 22669216; PMCID: PMC3369398.
     

  7. ​Gordon-Bennett P, Rimmer T. Central serous chorioretinopathy following oraltadalafil. Eye (Lond). 2012 Jan;26(1):168-9.
    doi: 10.1038/eye.2011.250. Epub2011 Nov 4. PMID: 22056864; PMCID: PMC3259586.
     

  8. Gordon-Bennett P, Misra A, Newsom W, Flanagan D. Registration of visual impairment due to diabetic retinopathy in a subpopulation of Cambridgeshire. Clin Ophthalmol. 2009;3:75-9. Epub 2009 Jun 2. PMID: 19668547; PMCID: PMC2709029. 
     

  9. Gordon-Bennett PS, Ioannidis AS, Papageorgiou K, Andreou PS. A survey ofinvestigations used for the management of glaucoma in hospital service in the United Kingdom. Eye (Lond). 2008 Nov;22(11):1410-8.
    doi: 10.1038/sj.eye.6703089.Epub 2008 Jan 25. PMID: 18219340.
     

  10. Gordon-Bennett P, Karas A, Flanagan D, Stephenson C, Hingorani M. A survey of measures used for the prevention of postoperative endophthalmitis after cataractsurgery in the United Kingdom. Eye (Lond). 2008 May;22(5):620-7.
    doi:10.1038/sj.eye.6702675. Epub 2006 Dec 15. PMID: 17173008.
     

  11. Gordon-Bennett P, Ung T, Stephenson C, Hingorani M. Misdiagnosis of angleclosure glaucoma. BMJ. 2006 Dec 2;333(7579):1157-8. doi:10.1136/bmj.39024.570313.AE. PMID: 17138997; PMCID: PMC1676140.

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