Prof Marcela Votruba
University Education
1981-1984 Undergraduate Pre-Clinical Studies:The Queen’s College, University of Oxford
1984-1987 Clinical Studies: Green College, University of Oxford Medical School
Academic And Professional Qualifications
1984 BA Hons 2:1 (Oxon)
1987 MA (Oxon)
1987 BM BCh (Oxon)
1989 Primary FRCS
1990 Optics & Refraction, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London
1991 MRCOphth, London
1992 FRCOphth, London
1999 PhD, University College, London
2000 CCST (December 2000), Royal College of Ophthalmologists, London
Awards And Honours
Undergraduate Distinctions
1981 Open Scholarship, The Queen’s College, Oxford
1984 First Class Hons. Dissertation, Oxford University
1987 Final Year Clinical Prize: Green College, Green College, Oxford
Postgraduate Prizes
1996 The Royal Society of Medicine: Ophthalmology Section- Registrars’ Meeting: First Prize (Awarded for the Best Paper at Annual Training Meeting)
Research Fellowships
1994 Guide Dogs for the Blind Association Research Fellowship
1998 Wellcome Trust Vision Research Training Fellowship
2002 Frost Research Fellowship
2003 MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship
Appointments
Present Substantive Appointment
Aug 2011 Professor and Hon. Consultant in Ophthalmology, Cardiff University and The Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust, University Hospital of Wales.
Previous Substantive Appointments
April 2003- October 2003 Full-time Consultant in Medical Retina, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Service Lead for Audit & Clinical Governance, Service Lead for ARMD Research.
Oct 2003- Sept 2007 MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow & Hon. Consultant
Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University and The University Hospital of Wales.
Teaching
Undergraduate Optometry Teaching
I lecture to final year Optometry students on the Abnormal Ocular Conditions Course.
Postgraduate Teaching in Ophthalmology
2009
- Neuro-ophthalmology case. Visual recovery in Leber’s hereditary Optic Neuropathy. Ophthalmology Postgraduate Teaching, University Hospital Wales, Cardiff
2010
- Practical genetics of optic atrophy. Ophthalmology Postgraduate Teaching, University Hospital Wales, Cardiff
- Invited Judge for Vision Research Day, Cardiff.
2011
- Retinal ganglion cell dendropathy. Ophthalmology Postgraduate Teaching, University Hospital Wales, Cardiff.
- Invited Judge for Vision Research Day, Cardiff.
2012
- Mitochondrial eye disease, Ophthalmology Postgraduate Teaching, University Hospital Wales, Cardiff.
Administration
I sit of the School of Optometry & Vision Sciences Research Committee (2007- present). Since 2012 I have been Deputy Director of Research and am Chair of the REF Working Group. I am also a member of the Equality & diversity /SWAN ATHENA Committee in OPTOM.
Other Academic Activities
Principal Investigator on the MRC Mouse Eyes & Vision Consortium.
Editorial Board of Acta Ophthalmologica
Editorial Board of the World Journal of Neurology
Guest Editor for Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models (with Prof Ian Jackson, Edinburgh)
External Committees:
UK Eye Genetics Group Steering Committee,
Lead Principal Investigator and co-ordinator of the MRC Mouse Eyes & Vision Consortium.
I am Programme Secretary (2011-2016) of European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER). I was the Vice President, 2009-2010, and past Section Chair for Molecular Biology/ Genetics/ Epidemiology on the Board of EVER (2004-2009). I was also the Editor of the EVER eNewsletter, which is published four times per year (2005-2009).
Innovation and Engagement:
I am STEM Net Ambassador and have been into local schools in Bristol to give talks about science and careers in science and medicine (e.g., Redland High school, Bristol, March 2013).
I am a Mentor for two research fellows.