Professor Marcela Votruba

Professor Marcela Votruba is a clinically qualified and clinically active Professor of Ophthalmology at Cardiff University School of Optometry & Vision Sciences and an Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.

Marcela was awarded a Personal Chair at Cardiff University in 2011, having been senior lecturer there since 2003. She came to Cardiff from University College London with a Clinician Scientist Fellowship from the Medical Research Council, to fund herself and a research associate for four years. Prior to this she was a Consultant in Medical Retina, at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London in 2003 and a Visiting Researcher, at the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA, in 2002. Marcela was a fellow to Professor Paul Sieving, in 2002- first in Michigan, Ann Arbor at the Kellogg Eye Centre, and then at the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda. She completed her specialty and supra-specialty training in ophthalmology and ophthalmic genetics in 2000 and was awarded her certificate of completion of training. She was a clinical fellow under the guidance of Professors Tony Moore and Alan Bird and trained in medical retina and genetics at a world-leading centre. Her fellowship of the Royal College of Ophthalmology (FRCOphth) was awarded in 1992. She studied Physiological Sciences at The Queen’s College, Oxford (BA, MA Hons 2:1, 1984/ 1987), where she was awarded an Open Scholarship in 1981. Her medical degree was at Green College, Oxford (BM BCh, 1987).

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