Thomas Desmettre, MD, PhD, is a Retina specialist mainly working in the north of France with a clinical activity developed since 1998. Since May 2013 his main activity takes place in Marquette-Lez-Lille at the Centre de Rétine Médicale.

This practise is fuelled by regular lectures, an editorship activity with the non-peer reviewed journal Réalités Ophtalmologiques. Dr Desmettre has recently published with Elsevier, France the 3rd edition of a comprehensive book about Age-related Macular Degeneration, emphasizing changing trends in macular practice/knowledge and using OCT-angiography among the other imaging techniques.

Dr Desmettre has also been practising in Paris for 17 years at Lariboisière’s hospital (Pr Ramin Tadayoni) and more recently in London, UK at the London International Medical Centre.