Professor Jane Ashworth graduated from the University of Oxford in 1992 and began her career as an Ophthalmologist at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (MREH). She earned a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1999 and completed Fellowships in paediatric ophthalmology at Manchester and in strabismus at Walton Hospital, Liverpool. In January 2007, she joined the paediatric ophthalmology department at MREH as a consultant.

Her clinical expertise includes paediatric uveitis, neurometabolic disorders affecting the eye, and intraocular lens implantation in infants. She also has extensive experience managing ophthalmic consequences of paediatric brain injury.