Dr. Anthony Khawaja

Anthony Khawaja PhD FRCOphth is Professor and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK. He is currently a UK Research & Innovation Future Leaders Fellow and a Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Fellow. Anthony completed a Wellcome Trust funded Epidemiology Masters and PhD programme at the University of Cambridge, and a Berkeley Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. His research concerns the genetic and environmental causes of glaucoma. Anthony’s ultimate aim is to develop prediction models that enable efficient population screening of glaucoma and personalised glaucoma care in the clinic, as well as identifying novel biological pathways amenable to treatments. Recent awards include American Academy of Ophthalmology Senior Achievement and Secretariat Awards and a National Health Service (NHS) National Clinical Excellence Award. Anthony is currently Chair of the SNOMED International Eye Care Clinical Ref