Professor Roshini Sanders

Roshini Sanders graduated from Glasgow and undertook her ophthalmology training in Glasgow, Dundee and London. She has one of the largest cohorts of glaucoma patients in southeast Scotland. She was Chair and founder member of the Scottish Glaucoma Club in 2004 and ran the Scottish Glaucoma Symposium from 1999 to 2020.She chaired the SIGN referral guidelines for Scotland in 2015. Besides glaucoma her main interests and research are in cataract, ophthalmology  training and digital ophthalmology.In 2010 she chaired the Eyecare Integration Programme (Scottish Government) that electronically connected all community optometry to healthboards to enable rapid referral with image information.The images from this programme enabled the global MSc and ChM  ophthalmology programmes through the University of Edinburgh.She is co- programme director for these courses. She is also Ophthalmology advisor to NHS Education and  Community Glaucoma Service (Scottish Government),Trustee for Glaucoma UK (London) and  was Ophthalmology research lead at the Chief Scientist Office, (Edinburgh) up to 2023.