Dr Victor Hu

Clinical Assistant Professor (HCC)

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

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Clinical academic with dual appointments of Clinical Assistant Professor at the LSHTM and Consultant Ophthalmologist at Mid Cheshire Hospitals. Academic and clinical interests include diseases and research in Cornea, Glaucoma and Vision Screening.

Act as the Medical Editor for the Community Eye Health Journal.

Studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin and completed specialist ophthalmology training in the UK. Successfully completed his PhD on the pathogenesis of trachomatous scarring with the LSHTM under the supervision of Professor Matthew Burton.

Affiliations

Department of Clinical Research

Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Teaching

Co-supervisor of proposed PhD to be undertaken by Dr. Einoti Matayan on Improving Glaucoma Care in the Kilimanjaro Region, to start 2024.

Completed PhD co-supervisor: of

Jeremy Hoffman - Managing Fungal Keratitis in Nepal: A Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing Chlorhexidine 0.2% to Natamycin 5%, 2022.

Simon Arunga - The epidemiology and management of Microbial Keratitis in South Western Uganda: The Mbarara Akavurugye Eye Study, 2016.

MSc module organiser for Ocular Infections and Childhood Eye Diseases 3403 of the Public Health for Eye Care MSc. Supervision of 4 MSc students for their research projects since 2019.

Clinical Supervisor for Ophthalmology Specialist Trainees since 2017.

Research

Blindness and Visual Impairment.

Glaucoma.

Corneal Diseases

Biosynthetic Alternatives for Corneal Transplant Surgery.

Trachoma.

Selected Publications

Traditional eye medicine use in microbial keratitis in Uganda: a mixed methods study

ARUNGA, S; Asiimwe, A; Apio Olet, E; Kagoro-Rugunda, G; Ayebazibwe, B; Onyango, J; Newton, R; LECK, A; MACLEOD, D; HU, VH; SEELEY, J; BURTON, MJ;

2019

Wellcome Open Research

Non-Chlamydial Bacterial Infection and Progression of Conjunctival Scarring in Trachoma.

HU, VH; MACLEOD, D; Massae, P; Afwamba, I; WEISS, HA; MABEY, DC W; BAILEY, RL; BURTON, MJ;

2018

Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

Immunohistochemical Analysis of Scarring Trachoma Indicates Infiltration by Natural Killer and Undefined CD45 Negative Cells.

HU, VH; Luthert, PJ; DERRICK, T; Pullin, J; WEISS, HA; Massae, P; MTUY, T; Makupa, W; Essex, D; MABEY, DC W; BAILEY, RL; HOLLAND, MJ; BURTON, MJ;

2016

PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Pathogenesis of progressive scarring trachoma in Ethiopia and Tanzania and its implications for disease control: two cohort studies.

BURTON, MJ; RAJAK, SN; HU, VH; Ramadhani, A; Habtamu, E; Massae, P; Tadesse, Z; Callahan, K; Emerson, PM; Khaw, PT; JEFFRIES, D; MABEY, DC W; BAILEY, RL; WEISS, HA; HOLLAND, MJ;

2015

PLoS neglected tropical diseases

Towards a safe and effective chlamydial vaccine: lessons from the eye.

MABEY, DC W; HU, V; BAILEY, RL; BURTON, MJ; HOLLAND, MJ;

2014

Vaccine

Diagnosing ocular surface squamous neoplasia in East Africa: case-control study of clinical and in vivo confocal microscopy assessment.

Nguena, MB; Van den Tweel, JG; Makupa, W; HU, VH; WEISS, HA; GICHUHI, S; BURTON, MJ;

2013

Ophthalmology

In vivo confocal microscopy and histopathology of the conjunctiva in trachomatous scarring and normal tissue: a systematic comparison.

HU, VH; HOLLAND, MJ; Cree, IA; Pullin, J; WEISS, HA; Massae, P; Makupa, W; MABEY, DC W; BAILEY, RL; BURTON, MJ; Luthert, P;