VISIONARY PROFILE

Dr Carolyn Ross is a comprehensive ophthalmologist specialising in cornea, cataract surgery and paediatric eye disease.

Carolyn completed her ophthalmology training at Sydney Eye Hospital and then undertook a Corneal Fellowship at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide.

She works in private practice in Sydney and is a senior consultant at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and head of the Corneal Unit at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney.

Dr Ross also provides outreach to rural and Indigenous communities in Griffith, NSW and Alice Springs, Northern Territory and has volunteered as an ophthalmologist in Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, and Laos.

As a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney, she is active in research, teaching and training future ophthalmologists in Australia and overseas.