Dr. Arthur Cummings is a South-African born and trained ophthalmologist who relocated to Ireland in 1998. He practices as a cataract and refractive surgeon at the Wellington Eye Clinic in Dublin. Arthur is involved in clinical studies as investigator and serves on the medical advisory boards of more than 10 ophthalmic companies. He is the immediate past-President of AECOS Europe and the Global Ambassador of the Refractive Surgery Alliance, a group dedicated to growing refractive surgery through collaboration. He serves as associate chief medical editor of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today Europe and is a reviewer for numerous journals including JRS and JCRS. He has published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed and trade journals, 12 book chapters, co-edited 2 textbooks and delivered more than 350 lectures at international meetings. In 2018 he was ranked in the Top 100 most influential ophthalmologists worldwide by readers of The Ophthalmologist.

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