Peter Mccluskey

Biography

   Peter McCluskey is Director of the Save Sight Institute at Sydney Eye Hospital and Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at the University of Sydney. Professor McCluskey is an inflammatory eye disease specialist with more than 25 years experience in the field. His primary clinical focus is vision-threatening chronic inflammatory eye disease and he has a large clinical practice as well as being actively involved in clinical research and clinical trials. Peter McCluskey graduated with first class honours from the University of NSW. He completed his ophthalmology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital. During his MD studies in ocular immunology at UNSW, he completed a fellowship in uveitis and HIV ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London in 1993-94. As Director of the Save Sight Institute at Sydney Eye Hospital, he is responsible for an Institute containing 11 research groups involved in both clinical and basic eye research that encompasses the common causes of blindness such as ARMD, diabetic retinopathy, cataract and corneal disease. Additional research groups target glaucoma, electrophysiology, genetic eye disease, uveitis and ocular cancer. He has received distinguished service awards from APAO, RANZCO and AAO for his teaching contributions. Most recently he has received the Mark Tso Golden Apple award from the International Council of Ophthalmology and Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology as the outstanding teacher in the Asia Pacific region for 2012.

Research Interest

 His laboratory research focuses on mediators of inflammatory eye disease and he has ongoing clinical and laboratory collaborations in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Vietnam and the United States.op