Sports Medicine

Keeping Athletes’ Eyes in the Game

Dan is an international authority on sporting eye and facial trauma, serving as match ophthalmologist for the Welsh Rugby Union and working with leading sporting bodies. His expertise supports elite athletes and enhances care for patients in the wider community.

Principality Stadium

Dan has experience of general sport and exercise medicine but in the last decade has concentrated on sporting trauma to the eye and face, becoming an international authority, publishing peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.

He is the match ophthalmologist for the Welsh Rugby Union and is a Council Member of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK).

Dan sorting out the oxygen cylinders at Everest base camp in Tibet (16,000 feet)

Dan is a Council Member of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK), here seen with other Council members and HRH the Princess Royal, Faculty Patron

He was also part of the medical team for the 2014 Rugby World Cup treating players from all around the world.

Retinal photgraphy in a tent at 14,000 feet

Rugby World Cup 2015

Dan was part of the eye team that helped deliver medical care to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.

High altitude retinopathy- Dan’s eye at 19,000 feet

Treating elite athletes and keeping them safe in the field of play has knock-on effects of being able to provide enhanced care for other patients in the community

Testing a new automatic defibrillator at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff

Sadly eye injuries and facial lacerations are not uncommon in contact sports such as rugby and football and are routine in full contact sports such as boxing.