Career profile: Caroline Clarke

13 May 2022
Spring 2022

Caroline explains her passion for improving lives by volunteering with Vision Aid Overseas.

Who? 

Caroline Clarke

Current job?

Specialist optometrist

Where?

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust; Vision Aid Overseas

Why did you choose a career in optometry?

Looking through all those funny little lenses when I was a child having my eyes tested, sowed a seed of interest. During training, I loved working at the Oxford Eye Hospital but realised I needed to go into private practice to gain experience. 

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