Carrie MacEwen: Champions vision and visibility

Biography

Carrie MacEwen, president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, is a consultant at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee and honorary professor of ophthalmology at the University of Dundee. She stuck her neck out in a BMJ editorial (with Andrew Lotery) by saying that the use of bevacizumab (Avastin) for macular degeneration by the NHS was being held up by “bureaucratic hurdles.” She runs a tertiary referral service for eye movement disorders, is ophthalmology adviser to the Scottish government, and was a founding council member of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine. She recently tweeted that she loves The Beatles—“a sign of my age, I suppose.”