Speakers

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  Professor Rahi Jugnoo

  Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist, GOS UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital

  I am an ophthalmologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital and an epidemiologist with a joint appointment at the GOS Institute of Child Health UCL (ICH) and the Institute of Ophthalmology (IoO) UCL. After clinical training in London in paediatrics and in ophthalmology, I undertook academic training, completing masters and doctoral studies in epidemiology supported by sequential Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellowships held jointly between the UCL GOS ICH and IO. In 2010 I was promoted to become the UK’s first chair in Ophthalmic Epidemiology. This unique joint post, straddling GOS ICH and IoO, reflects the integration of my academic & clinical roles and the cross-disciplinary and translational nature of my research. I lead the Vision and Eyes Group andt he Ulverscroft Vision Research Group (UVRG) at GOS ICH (the latter is an inter-disciplinary initiative supported by a major ongoing charitable donation from the Ulverscroft Foundation). Other current and recent roles: Council Member, Academy of Medical Sciences 2023- Chair, Academic Committee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) 2019- Chair, British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit Executive Committee 2019- Member, Paediatric Subcommittee RCOphth 2007- Head of Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department GOS ICH 2019-22 Panel member for various grant giving bodies including MRC, NIHR and Fight for Sight.

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  Dr Lola Solebo

  NIHR Clinician Scientist and Consultant Ophthalmologist, GOS UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital

  I fell in love with Epidemiology at medical school after hearing about John Snow, fancying myself as a future medical detective. I was a PhD student at UCL GOS ICH, and have stayed because of the warmth, generosity and cross-disciplinary nature of the staff and students here, and the quality and impact of our output – as well as the strong relationships between ICH, GOSH and the other UCL partners such as the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields. The GOS ICH Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, PPP, of which I am Deputy Head of Department, is home to research, teaching and translational activities which aim to improve the health of children and young people now and throughout their adult lives. As lead of the Institute's Race Equity Group, I'm also proud to be part of a team which formulates and supports the implementation of actions which address the challenges of inequity in academia. My partner and I are parents to two elemental forces disguised as human girls. You can find out more about my work, and the impact made by our team in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03234-9

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  Dr Lucie Teoh

  Honorary Research Fellow GOS UCL Institute of Child Health and Research Fellow UCL Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology

  I hold a Masters degree in Public Health (Health Economics stream) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and have a BSc in Pharmacology. In 2015 - 2018, prior to becoming a PhD student, I worked within the Vision and Eyes Team as a research assistant for the British Childhood Visual Impairment and Blindness Study 2 (BCVIS2). In September 2018, my PhD project started, which aims to explore the health, education and social outcomes of children with visual impairment and blindness, from the point of diagnosis, across childhood and into early adulthood. The study will use linked administrative hospital and school records of children identified in two nationally representative surveillance studies (BCVIS). This project will provide novel, longitudinal data on healthcare use, costs and survival for this rare group of children and enable future cost-effectiveness analyses of emerging treatments and inform service provision. This project is funded through the UCL-Birkbeck MRC doctoral training programme.