Dr David Mackey
MB BS MD FRACS FRANZCO
Assoc. Professor of Ophthalmology, Paediatric & Genetic Ophthalmology

Associate Professor David A Mackey was born (1960) and educated in Tasmania, studying Medicine at the University of Tasmania (1983). After resident years in Launceston and Tasmania he trained in Ophthalmology at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, subsequently doing a fellowship in Paediatric and Genetic eye diseases at the Royal Children's Hospital where he completed his MD thesis on Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy in Australia. After fellowships at the Johns Hopkins Centre for Hereditary Eye Diseases in Baltimore and Moorfields Eye Hospital & the Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children in London he returned to Australia to specialise in Genetic Eye Diseases. Based at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne Dr Mackey visits Tasmania for clinics and research sessions in Hobart and Launceston each month.

The major area of research is the Glaucoma Inheritance Study in Tasmania (GIST) which has been going for 10 years. In addition we have started the Twins Eye Study in Tasmania (TEST) and research into genetics of Optic Atrophy, Cataract, Strabismus, Ptosis, and other retinal and corneal diseases.