Prof Lyndell Lim is a Specialist Ophthalmologist with dual sub-specialty training in the areas of Ocular Inflammatory Diseases and Medical Retina.  After completing her ophthalmology training at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH), Prof Lim embarked on a two year Medical Retina Fellowship at RVEEH and then went on to complete a Uveitis Fellowship at the Casey Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Prof Lyndell Lim has authored over 110 peer reviewed published articles and 7 book chapters.  She has also been the recipient of an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship in support of her research work, in addition to competitive grant funding from the Ramaciotti Foundation, Diabetes Research Trust, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Alfred Felton Bequest and the Ophthalmic Research Institute Australia.

She is currently a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, where she also heads the Clinical Trials Research Unit. Prof Lim also is a Consultant Ophthalmologist sub-specialising in the fields of Medical Retina and Ocular Inflammatory Disease at both the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and is Head of the Ocular Immunology Clinic at RVEEH.  Her main passion is in clinical research, particularly in the areas of Ocular Inflammatory Disease and Diabetic Retinopathy, where she is continually searching for better treatments for these diseases – but these are a distant second to being mum for her two growing sons.

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