Mr Roger Baer

Roger Baer is a Consultant Eye Surgeon at Sulis Hospital Bath. He has over 30 years' experience in the speciality.

Roger Baer completed general medical training at St. Mary’s Hospital, London before training as an eye surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Moorfields is the largest eyecare centre in the world with an international reputation for clinical and research excellence. In 1995 he worked in Cape Town as a clinical fellow prior to taking up his Consultant post at the Royal United Hospital in Bath the following year.

He sees private patients at Sulis Hospital Bath, a recently built ‘state of the art’ hospital situated just outside the city. His areas of expertise include cataract surgery and the management of glaucoma.

Mr Baer has performed over 22,000 of these operations since 1987. He has a particular interest in ‘premium’ lens implants such as toric implants to correct astigmatism and multifocal lenses which enable distance intermediate and near vision to be corrected simultaneously.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

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