Professor Jamie Craig
South Australian clinician-scientist Professor Jamie Craig has been named in The Ophthalmologist ‘Power List’ for 2026.
The Power List showcases ophthalmology leaders and influencers who have made a significant impact in the field in the past 12–18 months.
Professor Craig is Director of the Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research; and Chair and Academic Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health in South Australia. He was named South Australian Scientist of the Year in 2024.
The Power List showcases ophthalmology leaders and influencers who have made a significant impact in the field in the past 12–18 months.
Prof Craig has led the development of SightScore, a polygenic risk score for glaucoma, including the incorporation of a start-up company Seonix Bio, to facilitate fundraising activities to fund regulatory accreditation in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
The test has now been launched in those countries and is being used by leading ophthalmologists to assist with key clinical decision making around initiation and escalation of treatment in glaucoma suspects and cases.
This year’s Power List is headed by Professor Gus Gazzard, from Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS and University College London, in the United Kingdom.
Professor Gazzard said his work has been “increasingly focussed on improving how we might conduct randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in ophthalmology”.1
“Working with many others I’ve been looking into better RCT outcome measures with sensitive but robust visual field analyses…Without RCTs, which preserve the glorious power of randomisation to give us robust answers, we fall prey to bias, selective reporting and ulterior motives,” Professor Gazzard told The Ophthalmologist.
“I hope that the impact of this work may have been (and will be) to encourage colleagues to look ever more critically at the information we receive, but more importantly to improve trial design within our speciality and ultimately to make it easier to answer those questions to which our patients need the answers.”1
Reference
1. The Ophthalmologist, Drivers of Change: The Ophthalmologist Power List 2026, available at: theophthalmologist.com/power-list/2026/#top-Power%20List%20Honorees [accessed March 2026].
