DrMaria Cabrera Aguas

Dr Maria Cabrera-Aguas is a Post-doc Research Associate and the head of the corneal infections program in the Corneal Research Group at the University of Sydney-Save Sight Institute.

She holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the National University in Colombia and a Master of International Public Health from UNSW and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Medicine from The University of Sydney. Her PhD thesis focused on the development, implementation and evaluation of a treatment guideline for herpes simplex keratitis at the Sydney Eye Hospital. Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation funded her research.

Her research focuses on improving outcomes for patients with infectious keratitis.

She is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology(ARVO) and of the Public Health Association of Australia