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WVUK was funded in October 2017 by 3 members of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Dr Maryse Bailly, Prof Julie Daniels and Dr Mariya Moosajee, and has since expanded UK wide

In June 2019, the women in vision  elected the first WVUK committee:

President: Sarah Coupland, Senior Consultant Histopathologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, George Holt Chair of Pathology at the University of Liverpool

Vice President: Mariya Moosajee, Consultant Ophthalmologist in Genetic Eye Disease at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Associate Professor and Wellcome Trust Beit Prize Clinical Research Career Development Fellow at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

Secretary: Rebekka Heitmar, Lecturer Aston University

Treasurer: Victoria Kearns, Senior Lecturer in Ocular Biomaterials in the Department of Eye and Vision Science at the University of Liverpool

Early Career representatives: Angharad Hobby, Bethany Higgins and Samantha de Silva

Angharad is a postdoctoral research associate at the School of Optometry and Vision Science at Cardiff University and a practicing paediatric optometrist. Bethany is a PhD student in the Crabb Lab at City, University of London, studying Optometry and Visual Science. Samantha is a medical retina Fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Outreach Relations Officer: Samantha Strong, Lecturer of Vision Science at Aston Optometry School, Aston University

Website manager: Maryse Bailly

Charity Partner: Rubina Ahmed

Future meeting organisers:

WVUK 2019: Tunde Peto, Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Queen's University Belfast, Head, Belfast Ophthalmic Image Reading Centre and Clinical Lead UK National Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Northern Irish programme

WVUK 2020: Lisa Hill, Lecturer in Ocular Inflammation and Fibrosis, NOScar Research, Institute of Clinical Sciences University of Birmingham

And all our helpers and volunteers...

WVUK Founding Members

WVUK founding members
Maryse Bailly, Associate Professor in Cell Biology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London. Mariya Moosajee, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Senior Lecturer, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. Julie Daniels, Professor in Regenerative Medicine & Cellular Therapy, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London

Helen Khan

Helen Khan,  WVUK Media & Communications

3rd degree connectionCommunications Consultant at NIHR BRC at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

Lola_Solebo


Lola Solebo, WVUK twitter

NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Paeditric Ophthalmologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

And also:

Abigail Hopkins (FYI fellow, Cheshire), Women in Vision Successes

Sarah Houston (PhD Student UCL), Wikipedia pages

Samantha De Silva
Samantha De Silva (Medical Retina Fellow, Moorfields Eye Hospital) and Tunde Peto (Professor Queen's University Belfast), WVUK Survey