Thomas Gordon Campbell, MBBS, DPhil, FRANZCO
Professional Affiliations
Academic Appointments- Associate Professor University of the Sunshine Coast
- Research Fellow, Centre for Eye Research Australia
- Medical Retina Lead, Sunshine Coast University Hospital
Education and Training
- Retinal fellowship
- Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Biography
I am an associate professor and clinician scientist at the Coastal Eye Centre, Sunshine Coast University Hospital, and the University of the Sunshine Coast. I am also a honorary consultant to the Medical Retina and Ocular Genetics units at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and a researcher at the Centre for Eye Research Australia at the University of Melbourne. I am a director of the NQ Eye Foundation. I am passionate about trying to improve outcomes in ophthalmology through the integration of research and clinical practice.
My research has three main themes:
Improving surgical results through an evidence-based approach to the development of professional expertise,
Using statistics to optimize decision making in medicine through the optimal use and interpretation of tests, and
The logistical and scientific obstacles to the delivery of world-class ophthalmic services to regional, remote, and Indigenous communities
The incredible physiology and anatomy of visual systems (both human and non-human) is beautiful and I am fascinated by the myriad ways in which this delicate system can be disrupted by pathological processes. In particular, I am intrigued by inherited disorders and their potential treatment using gene therapies.
I completed an undergraduate degree in ecology at the University of Queensland before moving to the UK, where I completed an M.Sc and D.Phil in neuroscience at Oxford University. I then worked at St Cross College and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford as a research fellow in medical genetics. I then returned to Australia and completed my medical degree at the University of Queensland. My junior doctor years were spent in Brisbane and the Gold Coast before I undertook specialty training in ophthalmology through the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital.
My subspecialty training in ocular genetics and electrodiagnostics, medical retina, and ocular inflammation was carried out at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, the Centre for Eye Research Australia, and the Royal Children's Hospital.