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Dr Fiona Rowe

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Fiona Rowe PhD, DBO, CGLI Cert. Ed

 

 

Senior Lecturer

NIHR Fellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Rowe qualified as an Orthoptist in 1990 at Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, London. She worked in London at Moorfield’s Eye Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital until 1992, in Australia at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinder’s Medical Centre, and in Ireland at Waterford Regional Hospital until 1993 before taking up post as Senior Orthoptic Clinical Teacher at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. She has worked at the University of Liverpool since 1998.

 

Research

My specific research interests include visual impairment following acquired brain injury and stroke, visual field assessment, neurological impairment of raised intracranial pressure, fusion and binocular alignment, botulinum toxin and neuro-ophthalmology.

 

Teaching

Incomitant strabismus and ocular motility, neuro-anatomy, visual field assessment, ophthalmic equipment, cerebro-vascular disorders, head injury/trauma, lids, pupils, supranuclear and internuclear anomalies, nystagmus, neuro-imaging.

 

Professional

Associate Editor-in-Chief: Strabismus

Chair: Cheshire & Merseyside Allied Health Professions research                      network

Expert Advisory member: The Stroke Association and RNIB

Mentor: NIHR Health Services Research

President ex-officio: UK and Ireland Society for Ophthalmic Nurses                and Technicians

Representative: North West People In Research Forum

Representative: North West Stroke Research Network

Research Lead: British and Irish Orthoptic Society

 

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