Ophthalmology

The Department of Ophthalmology is part of the School of Clinical Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Its research strengths lie in glaucoma genetics, anterior segment disorders, ocular oncology, infectious uveitis and paediatric ophthalmology. Work in genetics includes polygenic risk, exome sequencing and population-specific disease profiling.

Further themes include biomaterials engineering, computational modelling of surgical devices and non-invasive diagnostics, alongside global surgery and health systems research. The focus is on African populations and eye care across sub-Saharan Africa.