Thyroid Eye Disease: A Comprehensive Guide
暫譯: 甲狀腺眼病：全面指南

Rebecca Ford MA BMBCh MEd MRCP MRCSEd FRCOphth is a consultant oculoplastic surgeon at Bristol Eye Hospital, where she also previously served as Clinical Director. After studying at Cambridge & Oxford Universities, she trained in acute medicine in Plymouth before 'seeing the light' and switching to ophthalmology. Her specialist training was in London, including Moorfields Eye Hospital, followed by oculoplastics fellowship training in Birmingham. Her current research interests include inflammatory orbital diseases such as thyroid eye disease and IgG4 related orbital disease, transorbital approaches to skull base surgery, and best practice in common eyelid surgeries. She has published more than 30 papers and four book chapters.

Rebecca has a special interest in medical education; she was a London Deanery Fellow in Medical Education and completed her Masters in Surgical Education at Imperial College London. She was Chair of the Education Committee at the UK Royal College of Ophthalmology from 2021-25 and is Head of School for the Severn Ophthalmology Training program. She is the lead examiner for the IOFF visual sciences exam and has been an examiner for ICO and the UK College of Optometrists. She is a committee member of Women in Vision UK.

Early in her career, Rebecca noticed the immense impact of thyroid eye disease on affected people. She runs a specialist clinic for these patients in Bristol and in 2011 became involved with the Thyroid Eye Disease Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to supporting patients with thyroid eye disease and promoting research into this condition; she has now been chair of this charity since 2017. Outside work, she loves travel and scuba diving, and her charitable ophthalmology work has taken her as far afield as China, Indonesia, and Cambodia.

Rebecca Ford MA BMBCh MEd MRCP MRCSEd FRCOphth 是布里斯托眼科醫院的顧問眼整形外科醫生，並曾擔任臨床主任。她在劍橋大學和牛津大學學習後，在普利茅斯接受急診醫學的訓練，然後「看到了光明」，轉向眼科。她的專科訓練在倫敦進行，包括摩菲爾德眼科醫院，隨後在伯明翰接受眼整形的專科訓練。她目前的研究興趣包括甲狀腺眼病和IgG4相關眼病等炎症性眼窩疾病、經眼窩進行顱底手術的方法，以及常見眼瞼手術的最佳實踐。她已發表超過30篇論文和四章書籍。

Rebecca 對醫學教育特別感興趣；她曾是倫敦醫學教育院的研究員，並在倫敦帝國學院完成外科教育碩士學位。她於2021年至2025年擔任英國皇家眼科醫學院教育委員會主席，並是塞文眼科訓練計劃的學校負責人。她是IOFF視覺科學考試的主考官，並曾擔任ICO和英國驗光師學院的考官。她是英國女性視覺委員會的委員。

在職業生涯早期，Rebecca 注意到甲狀腺眼病對受影響者的巨大影響。她在布里斯托為這些患者開設專科診所，並於2011年參與甲狀腺眼病慈善信託，這是一個致力於支持甲狀腺眼病患者並促進對該病研究的慈善機構；自2017年以來，她一直擔任該慈善機構的主席。在工作之外，她熱愛旅行和潛水，她的慈善眼科工作使她走遍中國、印尼和柬埔寨等地。