Expert Care
for Diseases
of the Retina

A Surgeon at the
Forefront of Retinal Care

Mr Robert Henderson is a Consultant Vitreoretinal Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital — two of the world’s most distinguished centres for ophthalmic care. He has been a consultant at both institutions since 2014, following a training pathway that took him from University College London through fellowships on three continents.

After completing his medical degree at UCL and his core ophthalmology training in London, Mr Henderson undertook fellowships at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, and a final advanced vitreoretinal fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital. This international training gave him an exceptionally broad surgical foundation, spanning both complex adult vitreoretinal surgery and the highly specialist field of paediatric retinal disease.

Mr Henderson founded the Vitreoretinal Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which is now the UK’s national referral centre for paediatric vitreoretinal surgery. He is the lead surgeon for the GOSH Highly Specialised RPE65 Ocular Gene Therapy Programme — the first approved gene therapy for inherited retinal disease in the UK — and has been Principal Investigator on the world’s first CLN2 ocular gene therapy trial.

Alongside his surgical practice, Mr Henderson serves as Clinical Lead for Ophthalmology at Great Ormond Street Hospital and is Honorary Associate Professor at the UCL–GOSH Institute of Child Health. With over 112 peer-reviewed publications, he is one of the most published vitreoretinal surgeons in the United Kingdom.

In his private practice, Mr Henderson offers the full range of adult vitreoretinal surgical and medical care, bringing world-class expertise to the treatment of conditions including retinal detachment, macular hole, diabetic eye disease, and age-related macular degeneration.