Niall Patton is a Consultant Ophthamologist, Cataract and Vitreoretinal Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Manchester in 1996. He completed his ophthalmic surgical training at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, Edinburgh. In addition, he undertook four years of specialist Vitreoretinal surgical fellowship training at the Lions Eye Institute, Western Australia, Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion, Edinburgh, Tennant Eye Institute, Glasgow and Moorfield's Eye Hospital, London. He was appointed as a Consultant at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in 2008. He has a very busy private clinical practice based at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, and HCA Hospital, Wilmslow, where he treats patients from all over the world, who have sought his surgical expertise and clinical experience, particularly in the fields of complex cataract surgery and vitreoretinal surgery.

His surgical expertise encompasses all aspects of vitreoretinal surgery and he is at the forefront of the latest micro-incisional vitreoretinal and cataract techniques. He has particular expertise in macular hole surgery, retinal detachment surgery, epiretinal membrane surgery, diabetic eye disease, age-related macular degeneration and successful treatment of floaters.

In addition to his clinical expertise, he has an excllent record of pioneering ophthalmic research. His research culminated in the award of a MD (research) Doctorate from the University of Manchester in 2006. He has spoken at national and international ophthalmology meetings, including the United States, Australia, and Europe. In addition to 92 peer-reviewed publications in ophthalmic journals, he has also co-authored a chapter of a textbook and has served as a reviewer for major international ophthalmology journals, including Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Ophthalmology, Archives of Ophthalmology & Journal of Applied Physiology. He has also served as a grant reviewer for the Wellcome Trust.  His Google scholar index indicates 4239 citations, and a h-index of 28, and i-10 index of 57, indicative of very significant contributions to the ophthalmic and retinal research field, particularly wihtin retinal image analysis. His review paper on homology between retinal and cerebral vasculatures has been cited over 900 times.