Clinical expertise
Dr Tasanee Braithwaite specialises in inflammatory eye diseases and diseases affecting optic nerves and visual pathways in the brain.
She regularly treats patients with conditions such as:
- blepharitis and dry eyes
- uveitis
- scleritis and episcleritis
- blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm
- brain tumours affecting vision function (pituitary tumours, meningiomas, others)
- optic neuritis and optic neuropathies
- other neuro-ophthalmic disorders
She performs treatments and offers services including:
- insertion of silicone punctum plugs for the management of dry eye
- botulinum toxin therapy for the treatment of blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm
Locations
Our specialist provides care at these locations:
Biography
Dr Tasanee Braithwaite is a consultant ophthalmologist who specialises in medical and neuro-ophthalmology.
Dr Braithwaite takes a holistic and thorough approach to the care of her patients. Her goal is to help patients understand and manage the problems affecting their eyes, vision, and nervous system, and links to any immune-mediated inflammatory or other systemic diseases. She offers evidence-based and personalised management which optimises visual function and quality of life.
Tasanee qualified in medicine from the University of Oxford in 2004 and completed postgraduate medical training in both general internal medicine and ophthalmology in London’s top teaching hospitals, including Moorfields Eye Hospital, King’s College Hospital, The Hammersmith Hospital, and The National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Whilst training, she spent a year at Johns Hopkins University (USA) as a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar, and led a national eye survey in Trinidad and Tobago, gaining a doctorate from the University of Oxford. She was appointed to Co-Direct the St Thomas’ Medical Eye Unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in 2020.
Research
Dr Tasanee Braithwaite leads a research team at King’s College London where she holds a dual appointment as a senior lecturer in the School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, and the School of Population and Life Course Sciences. Her academic work is currently funded by a Clinical Research Excellence Fellowship, awarded by the Centre for Translational Medicine.
Dr Braithwaite’s research is advancing evidence-based medical practice and understanding of the burden and impacts of inflammatory and age-related eye diseases internationally. She continues to contribute to global endeavours to reduce avoidable vision loss, and serves on the annual program management committee for the foremost international conference in vision and ophthalmology (ARVO).
She has published many studies and articles in high-impact peer-reviewed medical journals, attracting over thirty thousand citations. She contributed a chapter on ‘The Eye in General Medicine,’ to the 6th Edition of the foremost international medical text, the Oxford Textbook of Medicine.
View her latest publications here.
