Dr Kate Gifford PhD, BAppSc(Optom)Hons

Dr Kate Gifford is an internationally renowned clinician-scientist optometrist and peer educator, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She holds a PhD in contact lens optics in myopia, four professional fellowships, over 100 peer reviewed and professional publications, and has presented more than 200 conference lectures. Kate is the Chair of the Clinical Management Guidelines Committee of the International Myopia Institute. In 2016 Kate and her optometrist husband Dr Paul Gifford co-founded Myopia Profile, the world-leading educational platform on childhood myopia management. After running her pediatric, contact lens and myopia specialty practice in the Brisbane CBD for 13 years, Kate moved full time into peer education through Myopia Profile in 2020.