Derek Sherwood MBChB, FRCS, FRANZCO

Dr Derek Sherwood Was born in Nelson and attended Nelson College before leaving to complete his Medical degree at Otago University. He did his Ophthalmology training in the UK passing his FRCS final exam in Edinburgh in 1987. He returned to NZ in 1990 as a consultant ophthalmologist and returned to Nelson in 1996 where he has practiced at Nelson Public Hospital and Privately.

As well as General Ophthalmology and Eye Surgery he has maintained a special interest in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus surgery.

He has previously been involved in providing eye surgery in Nepal and the Pacific Islands but over the last 10 years in addition to his busy clinical practice he has been preoccupied with improving Eye Health Services in New Zealand firstly in his role Chairing the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Group and then Chairing the Save Sight Society and more recently Chairing the NZ Branch of the Royal Australian and NZ College of Ophthalmologists.