David Steel

David Steel is a consultant ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon at Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Sunderland, United Kingdom, Honorary Professor of Retinal Surgery at Newcastle University and Visiting Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Liverpool. He qualified in medicine at Newcastle and completed subspecialty training in retinal surgery at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, before his appointment as a consultant in Sunderland in 1999. His research covers retinal stem cells, complement and inflammation in age-related macular degeneration, gene therapy trials, retinal image analysis and outcomes of macular hole and retinal detachment surgery. He is a past president of the British and Eire Association of Vitreoretinal Surgeons and an executive board member of the Club Jules Gonin, and he chaired the Royal College of Ophthalmologists' guidelines on full-thickness macular hole. He received the NIHR and Royal College of Ophthalmologists Researcher of the Year award in 2018.