DR. RIDIA LIM

Cataract and Glaucoma
Specialist, Sydney
Parramatta, Sydney

Dr Ridia Lim is a senior Cataract and Glaucoma Surgeon, with more than 2 decades of clinical experience in ophthalmology. She is dedicated to delivering state of the art medical and surgical care to all patients.

Dr Ridia Lim holds a public hospital appointment at Sydney Eye Hospital where she is the Head of the Glaucoma Unit and has served previously as the secretary of the Glaucoma Unit. Clinical and surgical training of glaucoma fellows and ophthalmology registrars and teaching medical students are a part of this role. She is an enthusiastic teacher with vast experience at local, national, and international levels with continued and active involvement.

Dr Lim completed her medical degree at the University of NSW and her Masters in Public Health at the University of Sydney, where she worked on the Blue Mountains Eye Study. She completed ophthalmology training in Sydney Eye Hospital to attain the fellowship to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, she further training as a cataract surgery specialist in Edinburgh and completed glaucoma fellowship training in Oxford, United Kingdom. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney.

She is an author of book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and a scientific reviewer for several ophthalmology journals on glaucoma. She has participated in international multicentre glaucoma research studies and herself, designed glaucoma studies, some published in peer-reviewed journals and some currently in progress. She is involved in the Fight Glaucoma Blindness (FGB!) registry and serves on the FGB! Steering committee.

Dr Lim has been involved with the Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Society (ANZGS) for many years. She has served on the executive of ANZGS for many years as secretary and is the current Vice-Chair of ANZGS. Dr Lim has served the Royal Australian New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) in many capacities: she has been an examiner, a mentor and currently is on the executive of the Scientific Program Committee. Dr Lim has served as a visionary of the charity, Sight For All (SFA) for many years. Her visionary work has taken her, so far, to teach in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. She has been a Board Director for SFA since 2022.

She is passionate about improving patient outcomes, surgical innovations, and teaching. Dr Lim was born in Busan, South Korea, immigrating to Australia in 1976. She speaks conversational Korean. She is married to Dr Sean Griffin, a talented gastroenterologist and they have a lovely daughter, Erin.