Professor Dodson qualified at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK, in 1974. He spent his early years training at Southampton General Hospital and the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. He returned to Sr. Bartholomew’s and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London in 1979 to research diabetes, hyperlipidaemia and retinopathy, which led to his MD. He moved to Dudley Road Hospital (now City Hospital) in Birmingham as a Senior Registrar in Diabetes and Endocrinology, and completed studies on the nonpharmacolgoical treatment and epidemiological aspects of hypertension in patients with diabetes, diabetic retinopathy and retinovascular disease. He was appointed Consultant Physician in Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinology, and Medical Ophthalmology to the academic unit of Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Birmingham in 1989, in one the biggest diabetes clinics in the country. He has published 130 papers on diabetes, hypertension, lipids and retinopathies. He has written and edited books entitled ‘Hypertension and Diabetes’, Diabetes, Lipids and Vascular Disease’, ‘Shared Care in Diabetes’, ‘Clinical Retinopathies’, ‘Lipids in Primary Care’ , ‘Target Organ damage in Hypertension’, and ‘Diabetic Microvascular Disease’.
His editorial board memberships have included Journal of Human Hypertension, Eye, Modern Diabetes Management and Modern Hypertension Management. He is founder and Honorary Secretary of the Medical Ophthalmological Society (UK), and is BBC SHA clinical lead for diabetic retinopathy screening, chair of the education and training committee, and member of the project advisory board for the diabetic retinopathy screening programme.
His current research interests include, diabetic retinopathy (screening, and medical therapies for, PKC inhibition, and octreoctide therapy), retinal vascular disease and diabetic management (hypertension, lipids CHD risk assessment).
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