She completed her medical training at Aberdeen University where she published several papers on angle closure glaucoma and was awarded the Royal Society of Medicine Essay prize and the SOC Pfizer travel grant. She secured the highly competitive post of Welsh Clinical Academic Trainee to complete her specialist training in Ophthalmology and was awarded The Royal College of Ophthalmologist Bayer Educational Grant to attain a PhD in Stem Cell Mediated Retinal Repair at Cardiff University.
At the prestigious Moorfields Eye Hospital she completed her 18 months fellowship in surgical glaucoma where she trained in managing complex glaucoma and implanting novel surgical devices. Currently she is an honorary senior lecturer at Cardiff University and her research interests include glaucoma surgical adjunct therapies such as anti VEGF wound modulation,angle closure glaucoma and neuroprotection.
Siene
A bit more about me
- Cataract Surgery
- Cataract with minimally invasive glacoma surgery(MIGS)
- Glaucoma management(medical, surgical and laser)
- Complex glaucoma management (surgical Glaucoma Drainage Device insertions and surgical repairs)
- Improving trabeculectomy survival after cataract surgery
- Surgical Glaucoma adjuvant therapy
- Wound Modulation
- Angle closure Glaucoma
- Neuroprotection
- Stem Cell migration
- Royal College of Ophthalmologists
- European Glaucoma Society
- World Glaucoma Association
- Association for research in vision and Ophthalmology
- University Hospital of Wales Consultant Ophthalmologist specialising in Glaucoma
- Honorary Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University
- Welsh Glaucoma Lead
- Senior Examiner and Subcommittee Member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologist
In her spare time she enjoys regular volunteer work at a cataract camp with Khmer Sight Foundation in Cambodia, Festival Medical Services at Glastonbury and is a national visual impairment classifier for the Paralympics and the FA.
