DrSahar Shariflou

Dr Sahar Shariflou is a Lecturer and Subject Coordinator in the Discipline of Orthoptics at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

Sahar completed a Master of Orthoptics at UTS in 2016, during which she undertook an international clinical placement at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (USA). Following her master’s degree, she was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postgraduate Research Scholarship to undertake her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), which she completed in early 2022. Her doctoral research focused on the early detection of glaucoma using a novel tablet based ophthalmoscope.

Her research has been recognised nationally and internationally, including through an Orthoptics Australia Research Grant (2019), the Cossom Best Research Presentation Award at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney (2017), and selection for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Hot Topics session (2018).

Sahar is a member of the interdisciplinary UTS research team A‑Eye, which integrates advanced ocular imaging techniques with artificial intelligence. The A‑Eye team won first place in the 2021 UTS Research Translation Competition. She continued her research as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UTS from January 2021 to December 2022, working on novel approaches for the early detection of glaucoma.

Alongside her research activities, Dr Shariflou has been actively involved in teaching in the Master of Orthoptics program at UTS since 2017 and has held subject coordination responsibilities since 2020.