Clare Fraser

Professor Clare Fraser is Professor of Neuro-Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Education at the University of Sydney's Save Sight Institute in the Faculty of Medicine and Health. She earned her MBBS with Honours and Masters of Medicine (MMed) from the University of Sydney, and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (FRANZCO) and an International Fellow of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society (NANOS). Her advanced training includes a neuro-ophthalmology fellowship at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, under Drs. Nancy Newman, Valerie Biousse, and Beau Bruce; a neuro-ophthalmology and strabismus fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London under Drs. Gordon Plant and James Acheson, with Botox training from Ms. Gill Adams and electrophysiology training from Professor Graham Holder; and ophthalmology registrar positions at Sydney Eye Hospital from 2006 to 2009 across multiple sites including Royal North Shore Hospital and Westmead Children's Hospital. She also serves as Clinical Associate Professor at Macquarie University.

Professor Fraser is a clinician-researcher specializing in neuro-ophthalmology, strabismus surgery, and electrodiagnostics, contributing to the Save Sight Institute's clinical care of complex patients and Australia's largest visual electrodiagnostic service. Her research focuses on optic nerve diseases including optic neuritis associated with multiple sclerosis, optic disc drusen—for which she leads an international consortium with the University of Copenhagen—visual snow syndrome in collaboration with Macquarie University, concussion assessment with the Australian Sports Brain Bank and Professor Michael Buckland, and ophthalmic applications to systemic conditions like obstructive sleep apnea. Notable publications include "Retinal thickness measured with optical coherence tomography and risk of disability worsening in multiple sclerosis: a cohort study" (The Lancet Neurology, 2016), "Artificial intelligence to detect papilledema from ocular fundus photographs" (New England Journal of Medicine, 2020), "The investigation of acute optic neuritis: a review and proposed protocol" (Nature Reviews Neurology, 2014), "Diagnosis and classification of optic neuritis" (The Lancet Neurology, 2022), and "The optic disc drusen studies consortium recommendations for diagnosis of optic disc drusen using optical coherence tomography" (Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, 2018). Her scholarly impact includes over 4,800 citations.

Professional Email: clare.fraser@sydney.edu.au