Sustainability

Sustainable Surgery, Lasting Impact

Dan has long been an advocate of sustainable healthcare and believes that doctors should be leading the way when it comes to protecting the planet for future generations.

Dan and the Sustainable Surgery in Wales Team have recently been shortlisted for the 2020 BMJ Awards, which have been sadly postponed due to the Covid pandemic.

Dan published the first carbon footprint of cataract surgery and was instrumental in setting up the Sustainability Working Group of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists as part of the Professional Standards Committee

The waste produced from one cataract operation in Cardiff which is incinerated

carbon footprint waste

Retinal photgraphy in a tent at 14,000 feet

Dan was lead author for the first carbon footprint of cataract surgery, published in Eye

Dan continues to raise awareness and push the sustainability agenda, introducing a College Congress academic sustainability prize in collaboration with Bausch & Lomb.

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

Royal College of Ophthalmologists Annual Congress Sustainability Prizegiving

Dan has been on many panels for helping people understand the concept of sustainable healthcare and trying to achieve the goal of a carbon neutral health service.