Dr. Nasrin Najm-Tehrani is Assistant Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto and, Fellowship Director for the Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Fellowship and staff ophthalmologist at The Hospital for Sick Children. She was trained in medicine in the United Kingdom at The University of Wales, College of Medicine and graduated in 1987. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. She trained as a fellow in paediatric ophthalmology in The Princess of Wales Hospital in Birmingham, England followed by a second year at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Tehrani has a special interest in the management of diseases of the anterior segment of the eye, specifically cataracts, glaucoma and uveitis in childhood affecting the newborn through to teen age. Her expertise is in both medical and surgical treatment o challenging and complex cases of paediatric cataracts and glaucoma and retinopathy of prematurity.