Mr Christopher Heaven
FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCOphth, FCOptom
Mr Chris Heaven is a Consultant Eye Surgeon (ophthalmologist) to Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust and based at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan. He has also held a similar position at Palmerston North Hospital in New Zealand. He spends his time in private practice as a consultant ophthalmologist performing laser eye correction & CK (conductive keratoplasty) at Visualase Laser Eye Clinic, Bolton.
His childhood and school days were spent in Nailsworth, South Gloucestershire. He qualified at Birmingham Medical School where he won the Undergraduate Prize for Ophthalmology. Following junior posts in the south of England his higher surgical training was undertaken at The Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester. This included a secondment to The Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, for specialist training in diseases of the ocular surface and cornea. He has a particular interest in small incision suture-less cataract surgery. These form the majority of his surgical practice cases.
He is also a qualified optometrist in the UK and also registered as such in Australia and New Zealand. He has produced a book for those working in ophthalmic primary care entitled "Ocular Disorder - A Series of Case Studies".
His interests outside medicine include railway history and preservation and he has aesthetically restored an ex BR guards van in his front garden.
Visit Mr Heavens own website Lens Exchange.
