Helen Danesh-Meyer

About Helen Danesh-Meyer

Sir William and Lady Stevenson Professor of Ophthalmology Chair at the New Zealand National Eye Centre, University of Auckland, New Zealand

In the words of one of her many nominators: “Helen Danesh-Meyer was the first female professor of ophthalmology and the youngest professor in a surgical specialty in New Zealand. Several aspects of her clinical research have influenced and altered clinical management strategies in the international arena, in particular her work on imaging of the retinal nerve fibre layer in Alzheimer’s Disease and chiasmal compression. She pioneered quantitative evaluation of the optic nerve and its morphological changes.”