Mr Robert Henderson

About Mr Robert Henderson

Mr Robert Henderson is a leading London-based adult and paediatric retinal specialist who specialises in retinal detachment surgery, paediatric ophthalmology, cataracts, cataracts in children, macular hole, and epiretinal membrane. He is currently at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. He also runs the LUXTURNA gene therapy programme at both hospitals. Notably, Mr Henderson is one of only three specialist vitreoretinal surgeons in the country that performs surgery in infants and neonates for retinopathy of prematurity, and is one of the only surgeons worldwide who can perform endoscopic vitreoretinal surgery. Mr Henderson's main research areas of interest include retinal genetics and paediatric retinovascular disease. Mr Henderson successfully undertook his fellowship training at the world-renowned Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, and Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. Mr Henderson has, to date, also published multiple book chapters, peer-reviewed papers, and is an external reviewer for several international journals.