Professor Chandra Balaratnasingam is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at The University of Western Australia and consultant vitreoretinal surgeon at the Lions Eye Institute and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. He has been a part of the Lions Eye Institute for over 25 years, initially joining the organisation as a medical student where he completed research projects with the Physiology and Pharmacology group.
Chandra completed his PhD at the Lions Eye Institute and commenced clinical practice in 2016. He is the director of the Perron Paediatric Retinopathy Initiative and leads a talented team of clinicians and scientists at the Lions Eye Institute to develop new strategies to prevent diabetes-related blindness.
