Pinar Aydin O`Dwyer

Pinar Aydin O`Dwyer, MD, PhD, FRCS(Glasg)
Professor of Ophthalmology and Neuro-ophthalmologist

Prof Aydin O’Dwyer, completed her Ophthalmology training and Neuro-ophthalmology doctorate in Turkey and partly in USA. She has founded the Baskent University Ophthalmology Department, Ankara. She serves as Honorary Member of Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (AOI) and Ophthalmology Part 3 Examiner for Glasgow Royal College of Surgeons. She is currently working in her private practice.

She has served as a member of the Board of Trustees, head of the Ethics Committee, member of the Examinations Committee and member of the Fellowships Committee of the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO); past treasurer and Neuro-ophthalmology section program officer of the European Association for Vision and Eye Research (EVER); and the treasurer of the European Neuro- ophthalmology Society (EUNOS). Author of some 200 scientific publications and editor of 28 books on ophthalmology in Turkish, she has been managing editor and editorial board member on several ophthalmic journals and has given many conferences and courses internationally.

Her main interests include coaching young academicians, particularly integrating local perspectives into an international approach recognizing cultural distinctiveness. She likewise aims to promote consensus and fellowship through paintings and operas by her presentations on ‘Ophthalmology in Visual Arts and in Opera’, and the pursuit of her hobbies of writing opera, ballet and cinema essays and critics, playing flute and dancing ballet. She has two published books on arts: The Book of Ballet (2022, 2 nd . Ed.) and The Book of Opera (2025, 2 nd . Ed.).