Other professional achievements

Council Member (since 2011) and President of the British Society of Refractive Surgery (2022 – current)

Examiner & Committee Member for the RCO Certification in Laser Refractive Surgery


Vice Chairman of the Moorfields Eye Hospital Drugs and Medicine Management Committee

Expert panel advisor for the Dry Eyes Medical website

Moorfields Eye Hospital Research Medal 

ARVO Travel Grant Award (2010)

Oxford Ophthalmological Congress Founder’s Cup (2007)


Action Medical Research Fellowship (2005 – 2009)


Member of International Sjogren’s Syndrome Registry Review Panel (SICCA)


 🏆 Other Awards

Ciba Geigy Prize for First in the Graduation Year (1996)

Prize for Clinical Proficiency in Medicine (1996)

Semmelweiss Prize for Infectious Diseases (1996)

Alan Zammit Award (1996)

General Proficiency Prize (1995)

Harold Alfred Waldron Memorial Prize (1994)

Hunter Prize and A.M. Lowenthal Prize for Prosection (1993)

Herbert John Wilkinson Memorial Prize (1992)

Grafton Elliot Smith Memorial Prize (1992)

John Harris Scholarship for Medicine (1992)

Medical Women’s Society of NSW Prize (1992)

Beverley Stewart Memorial Prize for Medicine (1991)

The Premier’s Prize for First Place in H.S.C. English (1990)

📚 Research Interests

As a clinical academic, Ms Saw is involved in ground-breaking, world-leading clinical and laboratory research in conjunctival inflammation and scarring, ocular cicatricial pemphigoid and dry eye.

Based on findings Ms Saw discovered during her PhD, an exciting potential new treatment has been found, and a clinical trial in ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, and in ocular allergy affecting children and adults, is planned. Ms Saw is also involved in research in corneal transplant surgery and cataract surgery, optimising outcomes of laser refractive surgery and femtosecond cataract surgery.

Amongst her other interests, Ms Saw has carried out ophthalmic aid work and teaching in Myanmar.