Abhishek Sharma graduated with a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery from the University of Tasmania in 2004. He completed a DPhil in public health in the field of pediatric ophthalmology in 2009 from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He completed his ophthalmology training at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 2013 and successfully completed the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists Fellowship examinations in 2013. He is currently a Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.