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Speciality Lead: Professor Roshini Sanders

Roshini is a graduate of Glasgow University and completed her ophthalmology training in Glasgow, Dundee and London to take up a consultant ophthalmology position with special interest in glaucoma at NHS Fife's Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline. She has an established interest in postgraduate education. She was chair and founder member of the Scottish Glaucoma Club in 2004. Her main areas of research are glaucoma, cataract and electronic communication and in 2012 she was appointed Research Specialty Lead for Ophthalmology in Scotland by the Chief Scientist Office, Edinburgh.

Contact: Roshini.sanders@nhs.net

Performance Manager: Sarah Kennedy

Sarah completed her BSc with the University of Glasgow and her MSc in Advancing Healthcare Practice with the Open University. Prior to Joining NHS Tayside, Sarah worked as a Senior Trials Assistant with NHS Lothian in diabetes research, as a Recruitment Facilitator with an R&D department in Surrey and as a Senior Research Officer for the Primary Care Research Network in Bristol. Sarah is also an NRS GCP trainer.

Contact: sarah.kennedy17@nhs.net 

Administrator: Gavin Gilfillan

Gavin oversees the research portfolio in NHS Tayside under Sarah Kennedy and provides administrative support to the Ophthalmology Specialty Group, as well as a number of others. Prior to his current position in the NRS Portfolio team, Gavin was a member of Tayside's Commercial Research team and has a B.A degree in English Literature from the University of Dundee.

Contact: gavin.gilfillan@nhs.net 
01382 383837