Mr Simon Madge is a consultant ophthalmologist in Hereford in the beautiful Welsh Marches area of England. He originally studied medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge graduating with a Double First Class degree in Medical Sciences in 1994, before studying clinical medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford. After gaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, he then started specialist training in ophthalmology, initially working in Bath and Nottingham, before completing his Higher Surgical Specialist Training on the Peninsular Rotation (Devon), gaining Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in 2007.
He undertook two Fellowships in Eyelid, Lacrimal and Orbital Surgery, firstly with Ok Thaller in Plymouth and then with Dinesh Selva, Garry Davis & James Muecke in Adelaide. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow and is Fellowship Director of the Hereford international clinical Fellowship in ophthalmology & oculoplastics, now in its tenth year.
He is the author of two successful ophthalmic textbooks and over 60 scientific ophthalmic papers, with a private practice based at The Wye Clinic in central Hereford. He is married with three daughters and is consequently highly unlikely ever to be able to retire.
