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Henry Smith, aka ‘Barney’, studied Earth Sciences at Hertford College, Oxford, and ran the Oxford University Wine Circle. After graduating he chose wine over geology, joining the firm Lay & Wheeler and gaining the Wine & Spirit Education Trust Diploma. After noticing that most of his best clients were doctors, and for the sake of his liver, he decided to retrain in medicine, qualifying in 2001 (Guy’s & St. Thomas’). Throughout medical school he pursued his twin passions of wine and politics, working at Lay & Wheeler at the weekends and as a parliamentary researcher in the evenings, his last two years as an aide to Ann Widdecombe MP.
After house jobs in London, he was an SHO on the Oxford rotation and an SpR at Moorfields, followed by oculoplastics fellowships at Maidstone, Moorfields and Glasgow. Always a lover of Scotland he was appointed as a consultant at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in February 2014, where he is the oculoplastic service lead. In addition to his clinical practice he is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Aberdeen University School of Medicine, where he is the ophthalmology teaching co-ordinator.