Dr. Stella Hornby

Clinical Director of Ophthalmology and Consultant Ophthalmologist

Oxford Eye Hospital

Miss Stella Hornby is a Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in urgent and primary care ophthalmology. She is the lead for the Eye Emergency Department of the Oxford Eye Hospital and the Clinical Lead for Ophthalmology. She also has clinics in Banbury and Wantage.

Originally from the North East she studied at Clare College Cambridge and was a registrar in the Oxford region. For her MD thesis she conducted clinical research studies on childhood blindness in India which won a Noble Prize from Cambridge University.

She is an experienced clinical educator, mentor and appraiser. She was awarded prizes for teaching including an ‘excellent teacher’ award for transforming the undergraduate medical education programme.

She was the Primary care Ophthalmology representative on the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ Professional Standards Committee and later the Lead for GPs and other specialties for the RCOPhth Education Committee. She wrote clinical commissioning guidelines on Primary Care Ophthalmology and another on urgent eye care and is involved in local and national Ophthalmology service redesign of services.

Since 2011 she has regularly organised training courses for GPs and other health professionals through Primary Care Ophthalmology LLP which she runs with two GP colleagues.