Tunde Peto is Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at QUB, Clinical Lead of the Northern Ireland Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) Screening Programme and a Consultant Ophthalmologist in Medical Retina
She specialises in chronic blinding diseases, ophthalmic image analysis, epidemiology and statistics and is internationally renowned for setting up and managing diabetic retinopathy screening and training programmes.
As Head of the Belfast Ophthalmic Reading Centre and Director of The Central Administrative Research Facility (CARF), a unique facility coordinating the grading of ophthalmic images collected for clinical research studies, Professor Peto has expertise in overseeing a wide range of studies, including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and population-based studies.
Professor Tunde Peto trained in Hungary and Australia and spent 15 years at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London before taking up her current position in Belfast. She was recently named among the UK’s most influential researchers who study diabetes complications.
