Professor Jan Atkinson FMedSci

Janette Atkinson is Professor in the Visual Development Unit at the Department of Psychology, University College London. She is internationally renowned for her innovative research on vision, in particular as a pioneer in the study of early human visual development. She has contributed to the understanding and assessment of visual abnormalities related to strabismus, amblyopia and congenital cataract and has directed large scale, population-based infant vision screening programmes and did important controlled trials.