Biography

Miss Yusrah Shweikh is a consultant ophthalmologist at the Sussex Eye Hospital.

She is the co-founder and director of Eye Heroes, which is an award-winning national initiative to raise awareness about eye health in the UK. She specialises in the medical and surgical management of glaucoma and has completed two surgical glaucoma subspecialist fellowships at the internationally renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

In addition, Yusrah has active interests in research and training. Her major current interest is in avoidable blindness.

In her spare time she enjoys volunteer work in West Africa where she delivers surgical training courses.

Yusrah has recently returned from a research sabbatical in Boston, Massachusetts, where she worked with collaborators at Harvard University on enhancing glaucoma risk prediction using genetic analysis and machine learning.