
President & Director
Nancy Atkinson
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Nancy is the current President of OQNT. She has over 25 years of clinical experience is all areas of optometry. She has worked in both rural and metropolitan practice and now owns her own practice in Toowong, Brisbane. Nancy completed her Bachelor of Applied Science (Optometry) and Grad Cert (Ocular Therapeutics) at QUT and later completed a Master of Business Administration and Sports Vision Accreditation. She has served on the Optometrists Board of Queensland and the Board of Royal Blind Foundation and is a former Director of the Optometrists Association of Australia QLD/NT, having served as President in 2003-2004. She was also a committee member for the Queensland Vision Initiative for 2 years and served on the Registration and Notification Committee for the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA) for 10 years, which is responsible for registering optometrists in Australia.
She also has a son who is studying optometry so has a strong interest in the current and future needs of optometrists.