Ian Jeffrey Constable is an Australian ophthalmologist and the founder and director of the Lions Eye Institute in Perth, Western Australia.
He worked at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney until 1970, and then was a Retinal Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School from 1970 to 1971.
He was a Clinical Retinal Fellow at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston from 1971 to 1972 and an instructor in ophthalmology at Harvard from 1974 to 1975.
Constable is a member of many professional organisations, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Australian Society for Medical Research.
Profile of Ian Constable at Science Network Western Australia http://www.sciencewa.net.au/science_archive.asp?pg=30&NID=135 ('The Eyes Have It' by Catherine Madden, Thursday, 24 February 2005).
'Award shines light on WA hero', by Christiana Jones and Kate Tarala, The West Australian, Monday 2 June 2008.