Courtney Francis, MD is a board-certified ophthalmologist, a medical director of the UW Medicine Eye Institute , and a professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington. 

Dr. Francis is a clinician educator whose primary clinical interest is neuro-ophthalmology. She enjoys being able to educate patients, residents and medical students. She feels the multidisciplinary approach at UW Medicine really helps to provide the best care for patients, many of whom have complex conditions.

Dr. Francis earned her MD at the University of Rochester, New York. Her clinical and research interests include optic neuropathies, adult strabismus/cranial nerve palsies, idiopathic intracranial hypertension/papilledema, pupillary abnormalities, benign essential blepharospasm/hemifacial spasm, tumors involving the visual pathways, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis and thyroid eye disease.