Australia
Fiona is a clinical scientist with expertise in basic and translational research in the fields of contact lens related disease, corneal infection and dry eye. Her research aims to improve understanding of the epidemiology and pathophysiology of sight-threatening ocular diseases. She has participated as chair and steering committee member in several TFOS workshops including DEWS II.
She is the Immediate Past President of the International Society for Contact Lens Research and has received several international awards for her research in the last 5 year. These include the American Optometric Association Don Korb award, the American Optometric Foundation Glen A Fry Award and the Australian Optometry HB Collin Medal in 2018 and in 2019 the UK Hospital Optometrists Woodward Medal. In 2020, 2021 and 2022, she was recognized as the top Australian researcher in the field of research of ophthalmology and optometry by the Australian Newspaper by publications and citations. In 2021 she delivered the Bireswar Chakrabarti Oration at ARVO-India and in 2022 delivered the Richard and Leonara Hill named lecture at Ohio State University. In 2023 she was nominated in the to the Order of Australia.
She was nominated to the Australian Academy of Science, Technology and Engineering in 2018, to Life Fellowship of the British College of Optometrists in 2019, is a Diplomate in the Cornea, Contact Lens and Refractive Technologies Section of the AAO and Fellow of the Cornea and Contact Lens Society of Australia and British Contact Lens Association. She is an international advisor to the Asia Cornea Society Infectious Keratitis Study.
