Miki Sawa received her MD from Osaka City University in 1995 and PhD from Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine in 2004. She worked as an Assistant-Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine (2007–2015). In 2015, she moved to Sakai City Medical Center, Osaka and was promoted to the head of the Eye Center in 2019. Her research topics mainly include age-related macular degeneration, central serous chorioretinopathy, pachychoroid, angioid streaks, fundus autofluorescence, and lutein.