Dr Ben Connell
BMBS, FRANZCO, MPH
Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, VIC

Dr Connell provides a cataract, refractive and corneal surgery service at Eye Surgery Associates.  Dr Connell performs Laser-Assisted and Conventional Cataract Surgery.  He also performs Laser Vision Correction (LASIK) and TransPRK and Corneal surgery to correct keratoconus and other corneal disease.

Dr Connell’s undertook ophthalmology training at the Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital Melbourne, and was engaged as a Senior Registrar in his final year.  He then went on to complete Advanced Subspecialty Surgical training at the Manchester Royal Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, specialising in cataract surgery, laser vision correction and corneal transplantation.  He also held an Honorary Consultant Position at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.
Dr Connell has a strong academic interest in medical auditing, in particular working on the development of tools to enable surgeons to audit their surgical outcome.  He believes this is a significant tool in enabling best possible patient outcomes.  Dr Connell has a particularly thorough and detailed approach to auditing his own surgery.  This allows him to regularly present his results to his peers at conferences and offer his own patients realistic expectations regarding their own surgery.

He holds an appointment at the Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital as a Consultant with the Corneal Unit.