John Pratt-Johnson

Who is John Pratt-Johnson?

John A. Pratt-Johnson, FRCS, FRCS, is a Canadian ophthalmologist and Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is a famous pediatric ophthalmologist and has trained many fellows at the university. He has also involved himself in international cooperation to improve the status of medical care in the area of blindness prevention and access to surgical expertise for under-served areas in poor countries. As part of Orbis and the board of directors of Seva, he has helped organise funds, build facilities and train health care workers and ophthalmologists, particularly from Nepal, where prevalence of blindness is quite high.

Pratt-Johnson has over 50 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and has given many memorial lectures on pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, including 18th annual Frank D. Costenbader Lecture in 1991 and the Sixth annual Richard G. Scobee Memorial Lecture. There is an annual lecture dedicated to his name.

Pratt-Johnson was the president of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus from 1983 to 1984.