Professor Robert Scott qualified from St Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1987, his eye specialist training was at Queens Medical Centre Nottingham and his retinal specialist and cataract specialist training was at Moorfields Eye Hospital London. He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1993, was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist in 1998 and awarded a postgraduate Doctorate of Medicine by the University of Nottingham for his research on eye immunology and wound healing. 

 

He was appointed as a Royal Air Force consultant at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre (BMEC) and Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for 15 years; sub-specialising in eye trauma, advanced cataract and vitreoretinal surgery. He served as the Royal Air Force and Defence Medical Services Consultant Advisor for Ophthalmology for a decade. He was honoured as one of the 'Times UK's top 50 surgeons' in 2011 and was appointed as the Defence Medical Services and Royal College of Ophthalmologists Professor of Ophthalmology in 2012, then honorary Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Birmingham in 2015.

 

He has supervised a generation of military and civilian PhD students and was awarded the RCOphth John Lee MRC Fellowship to study neuroregeneration and two Wellcome trust grants to develop skin and ocular anti-scarring agents. He pioneered artificial vision for totally blind patients, who interpret a video picture of the outside world through stimulation of their tongues. This was featured in the BBC documentary 'Frontline Medicine'. He served as the clinical ophthalmic lead for the National Institute of Health Research in the West Midlands.

 

He is an accomplished medical teacher and trained a large number of consultants in the UK and abroad. He was voted by his peers as President of the Midland Ophthalmological Society in 2009 and honoured by the Royal College of Surgeons of England who awarded him the Lady Cade Medal for meritorious research in 2015. 

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On retiring from the RAF in 2015 he was appointed as the Medical Director for Moorfields Eye Hospital in Dubai for 2 years, returning to the UK as the Medical Director for the cataract provider company SpaMedica. He helped build 6 new eye hospitals over this time, then formed ScottHealth Ltd to work in private practice from April 2018.