Prof. Billy Power

Professor Power graduated from Trinity College Medical School in 1984 . He obtained his membership of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland 1996. He then commenced training in ophthalmology completing his residency and specialist registrar training in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. He was awarded fellowships of the Royal College in Surgeons, Glasgow and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 1989. He completed his postgraduate thesis and was awarded the degree of Masters in Surgery (TCD) in 1993. In 1993 he travelled to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), Harvard Medical School, Boston and completed a fellowship in cornea and laser refractive eye surgery. He was appointed assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School and consultant eye surgeon in the MEEI in 1995. He was appointed Chief of Ophthalmology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston in 1996. In 1998 he returned to Dublin and took up the post of consultant ophthalmologist in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, St. Vincent's University Hospital and the Blackrock Clinic. He was President of the Irish College of Ophthalmologists from 2015 to 2017 and in currently Clinical Lead, National Clinical Programme in Ophthalmology.