Jane Ashworth

Jane Ashworth has been a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and Paediatric Ophthalmologist at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital since 2007, and has specialist expertise in disorders of the eye in childhood and metabolic disease and the eye. Jane qualified in medicine in 1992 from the University of Oxford, and has a PhD from the University of Manchester. She trained in Ophthalmology at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, and became clinical Lecturer in Ophthalmology in 1999. She is an Honorary MAHSC Professor at the University of Manchester. She is very involved in training Ophthalmologists in the North West region, and is Head of School of Ophthalmology for Health Education North West. She regularly teaches and trains junior doctors and paediatric Ophthalmology fellows from the UK and abroad. Jane leads the regional Paediatric Uveitis service in Manchester. She is actively involved in research in Paediatric Ophthalmology and has written over 80 research publications, 5 book chapters and a book on Genetics and Ophthalmology.