Tim Cole has over 19 years' experience in ophthalmology, beginning as an ophthalmic photographer at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital before transferring to Blackpool Victoria. He left the NHS in 2011 to join the clinical team at Topcon eventually becoming the OCT product manager and part of the European swept-source OCT angiography research team. Tim joined Heidelberg Engineering in September 2017 and is currently head of the clinical affairs, where he drives and manages research in ophthalmology across the UK.