Consultant Geneticist, Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Birmingham; honorary Consultant, Dept of Ophthalmology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and Professor in Medical Genetics, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
Nicola Ragge trained in Paediatrics before entering Ophthalmology. After her general Ophthalmology training, she undertook Fellowships in Paediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-ophthalmology, Adnexal Surgery, Ophthalmic Genetics at centres including: UC, San Francisco, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Great Ormond St Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. She started to specialise in understanding the genetics of congenital eye anomalies, mainly anophthalmia and microphthalmia in 1999 whilst working in the Adnexal Dept at Moorfields Eye Hospital with Professor Richard Collin and set up a joint multidisciplinary clinic. In 2003, she was awarded a Senior Surgical Scientist Fellowship to establish a research programme in developmental eye genetics in Oxford whilst working as Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist in Moorfields and Birmingham Children’s Hospital. She undertook specialist training in Clinical Genetics to become dual accredited in Genetics and Ophthalmology, and now works as a consultant geneticist, with a special interest in developmental eye genetics and runs a national laboratory research programme on Eye Genetics in Oxford. She has identified new genes and syndromes involving eye anomalies and has established new rapid diagnostic testing for these genes. She has wide-ranging research interests, has published over 80 papers, and a book ‘Immediate Eye Care’. She has worked as Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Genetics and is on the Committee for Eye Genetics Group (UK). She is medical advisor to the Microphthalmia, Anophthalmia, Coloboma support group.
