Career profile: Professor Ruth Hogg
29 October 2025
Autumn 2025
Life at the cutting edge of research, the level of evidence needed to change care pathways, and how to balance curiosity and funding priorities to create opportunities.
Who?
Professor Ruth Hogg MCOptom
Current job?
Professor of Ophthalmic Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Where?
Queen’s University Belfast
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