Prof. Fiona Rowe is Professor of orthoptics at the University of Liverpool and Director of the VISION research group. She is an editorial board member for the British and Irish Orthoptic Journal, and lead orthoptic editor for the Cochrane Library Eyes and Vision group. Fiona is the orthoptic representative on the Council for the International Strabismological Association and a member of the European NeuroOphthalmology Society Low Vision group. She is the Past President of the Society for Research in Rehabilitation and a mentor for the National Institute of Health Research integrated clinical academic training pathway.

Her particular research interests include visual impairment due to acquired brain injury (leading a number of national and international stroke projects), visual field evaluation and control of ocular alignment. Prof. Rowe is the author of two textbooks: ‘Clinical Orthoptics’ and ‘Visual fields via the visual pathway’, author for seven book chapters, and has presented and published her research extensively.

Dr Holmes completed undergraduate studies at Cambridge University and medical school at Oxford University.  He was an Ophthalmology Resident at Loyola University Chicago and Fellow in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus at the University of Michigan. He worked for 25 years at Mayo Clinic Rochester, becoming the Chair of Ophthalmology from 2001-2009, and Joseph E. and Rose Marie Green Professor in 2009. Dr Holmes moved to University of Arizona-Tucson, Arizona, in 2020, as Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology and Vision Science. Dr Holmes has been one of the leaders of the Paediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group for over 28 years, directing multicentre RCTs and observational studies, and his surgical practice is focused on complex strabismus.