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Why chose Dr Peter Davies for your care?
Dr Peter Davies is one of Australia's most experienced eye surgeons, having completed more than 35000 sight-saving eye procedures, and over 60 000 eye injections, in his 30 year career.  According to official Medicare data, in 2024 he provided the most medicare-eligible services of any eye surgeon, reflecting his commitment to fighting blindness for patients entrusted to his care.  
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His training as an eye surgeon began as a teenager, when his mother Rosemary suggested he commence Pipe Organ lessons.  This experience taught him the two-hands, two-feet coordination that is so essential for excellence in eye surgery where the surgeon uses all four limbs to manipulate instruments, the machines and the microscope.  Dr Davies is a member of the Royal College of Organists, London UK.  
 
He commenced Ophthalmology work in 1998 at Royal North Shore Hospital.  He completed his Masters of Public Health from Sydney University one year later, and completed his training with the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists in 2003.  He completed fellowships in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Surgery, and Vitreo-retinal Surgery and Macula Diseases in Gloucestershire and at Sussex University Eye Hospital Brighton.  He co-authored a textbook  entitled "Strabisbus Surgical Techniques" which earned second place in the British Medical Association best textbooks awards in 2005, second to Jack Kanski's seminal text book.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Strabismus-Surgery-John-D-Ferris/dp/1416030204
 
In this text book Dr Davies acknowledges Jesus Christ as his mentor.  He takes guidance from Jesus' teaching and Christian principles.  
 
Dr Davies returned to Australia in 2005 to establish home for his wife Hillary and four children in Newcastle Australia.  He established Hunter Eye Surgeons, which has grown to be the largest clinical practice of Ophthalmologists in the Hunter Valley with 5 full-time Ophthalmologists.  Recognising a need for a high-quality surgery facility dedicated to eyes, in 2009 he established Newcastle Eye Hospital.  Combined with the advanced equipment, additional retinal surgical skills and training, and a team of retinal surgeons, Newcastle Eye Hospital is a hospital where patients can obtain emergency sight saving retinal surgery all year round, and is the only hospital exclusively dedicated to eye disease in the Hunter Valley.  
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In 2011 Dr Davies established Newcastle Eye Hospital Foundation, committed to facilitating medical research and training in Ophthalmology, and providing charity assistance locally and abroad.   The foundation has participated in several trials of new treatments, such as femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS), macular degeneration and new drugs for macular disease.  Four major papers have been published by teams that included Dr Davies in the prestigious "Ophthalmology" Journal - three papers on new cataract surgery techniques, and one paper in 2016 on macula disease treatment.    Current research projects include the basic sciences of retinal detachment, new lenses for cataract surgery, new treatments for wet and dry macula degeneration, natural light sources of photobiomodulation and pterygium surgery techniques.  
 
The Newcastle Eye Hospital Foundation supports numerous charities overseas, including the India Eye Openers Project which provides eye sight in India to the poorest communities through cataract surgery.  Annually we raise over $50 000 towards this work.  There are also associated schools and community groups that benefit from our relationship with Eye Openers.
(https://www.eyeopeners.org.au)
 
Dr Davies is registered as a medical practitioner in Nigeria, Africa.  Dr Peter and Hillary Davies visited the Jos University Hospital Ophthalmology department and Wurin Alheri Hospital in Jos, Nigeria in September 2025.  At Wurin Alheri we have helped fund a school for 900 children, a hospital, and a women's refuge accommodation facility.  We are actively raising funds to fulfil commitments to expand the ophthalmology departments at both hospitals in Jos.  We are assisting establishing a new school in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city.  
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Dr Davies regularly travels to support charities and philanthropic works around the world. Together with his wife and a small group of Australian, he supports a school for war orphans in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, where the 700 children regularly achieve the top academic prize for the city.  This project is called hope and care for little souls.  (https://www.hcls.net.au)    He also supports educational colleges in Port Vila Vanuatu, Tarawa Kiribati, and Lilongwe, Malawi.  They also support the villages of Loniel and White Sands on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu.   In 2024 Peter and Hillary visited Tarawa, Kiribati and Fiji and in 2025 the province of Victoria, Phillipines and Nigeria.
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In December 2017 he was awarded the Keys to the City of Newcastle by Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes in recognition of the work of the Newcastle Eye Hospital Foundation. You can read about this here.
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Dr Davies installed the first laser cataract surgery machine for the Hunter Valley in August 2012.  With Professor Brendan Vote, the research team applied the scientific method to this technology, and published ground-breaking insights that have influenced cataract surgery practice around the world.  Newcastle Eye Hospital became the first hospital in Australia to get rid of this technology in July 2013, when it became clear through research that the technology did not benefit the patient, and was not cost effective.  Dr Davies believes that laser cataract surgery is an unnecessary additional laser procedure that lacks evidence for benefit, and should not be offered to patients.  
 
Dr Davies has been an invited guest speaker to overseas conferences, such as the European Cataract and Refractive Society meeting, where in October 2017 he spoke at a symposium on Laser cataract surgery.  It was at this meeting that the results of the best quality clinical trial were presented, confirming Dr Davies' findings that laser cataract surgery was of no benefit to patients.  
 
Dr Davies has public hospital appointments at Royal Newcastle, John Hunter, and Kurri Kurri hospitals.   He is a Clinical lecturer at the University of Newcastle, and teaches medical students and guides them in research work.  
 
Dr Davies is a keen aviator.  In order to reach out to regional communities, he obtained his pilot's license.  Not settling for the standard Private License, he went on to achieve his Instrument rating, night rating, sea-plane rating, and twin engine rating, giving him all the skills he requires to safely reach the patients, in all weather conditions, day and night.  His philosophy in aviation is the same for his surgery.  He gains all the skills necessary to give the patients the safest surgery, and best clinical course of treatment.