Brian Leatherbarrow
BSc MBChB DO FRCS FRCOphth
Consultant Ophthalmologist & Ophthalmic Plastic Surgeon
Mr Leatherbarrow has a busy medicolegal practice, undertaking 50-100 specialist medical reports for solicitors each year. He was awarded the Cardiff University Law School Bond Solon Civil Expert Certificate in May 2015. His medicolegal website is: www.medicolegalophthalmology.co.uk
He graduated from Manchester Medical School in 1982, training in general ophthalmology at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital before undertaking subspecialty training fellowships in oculoplastic and orbital surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, and the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA, where he also trained with plastic surgeons, maxillofacial surgeons, dermatological surgeons and neurosurgeons.
Click here to see list list publications in the medical literature.
He is the author of a major textbook ‘Oculoplastic Surgery’ (published by Martin Dunitz, 2002). The second edition of this major textbook was published by Informa Healthcare in Dec 2010 (http://www.eyelidsurgery.co.uk/blb-book.htm). The 3rd edition was published in October 2019:
https://www.thieme.co.uk/opthalmology/oculoplastic-surgery
https://www.eyenews.uk.com/reviews/book-reviews/post/oculoplastic-surgery-third-edition
His book was translated into Chinese in 2023
Achievements
He was the Section Editor for oculoplastic and orbital surgery for EYE, the scientific journal of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, for over 10 years. He has been an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was the founder Treasurer of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society (www.BOPSS.co.uk) 2001-2006 and was the President of the society until June 2014. He is a fellow of the Royal College or Ophthalmologists and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
He is a member of:
- The British Oculoplastic Surgery Society (BOPSS)
- The European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons (ESOPRS)
- The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)
- The Faculty of Expert Witnesses for Doctors (FEW)
Areas of Medicolegal Expertise
- Cosmetic Eyelid/Brow Surgery – Blepharoplasty (eyebag removal and eyelid lift), Eyebrow Lifts including Endoscopic Brow Lifts, Structural Fat Grafting (Coleman Fat Injections), Microfat and Nanofat Grafting, and Fat Pearl Grafting
- Blepharoptosis Surgery (ptosis surgery – for droopy upper eyelids)
- Entropion/Ectropion Surgery
- Eyelid/Periocular Tumour Surgery
- Eyelid/Facial Skin Lumps
- Eyelid Reconstruction following Trauma
- Eyelid and Eyebrow Surgery following Facial Palsy
- Reconstruction of Mohs Micrographic Surgery defects
- Enucleation/evisceration/orbital exenteration
- Eye socket reconstructive surgery following loss of an eye
- Orbital wall fractures
- Watery eye surgery – endoscopic and external dacryocystorhinostomy
- Ophthalmic management of facial palsy
- Thyroid eye disease
