Our people

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A graduate of QUT Bachelor of Applied Science Optometry in 1989 lead me to work in private practice for Greg Smith at Caloundra. A move to contact lens only practice in 1990 for OPSM on Wickham Tce was a terrific learning experience working closely with ophthalmology. Travel then beckoned in 1991 heading to the UK where I practiced in many locations including Ireland, I am still registered in the UK and Ireland to practice.

Returning to Australia in 1994 to Rockhampton I worked for an ophthalmologist in private practice, another fantastic learning experience. In 1995 an opportunity opened in private practice as an OPSM ‘double door’ optometrist and also practicing in Blackwater. During this period I had a lead role in the Rockhampton Base Hospital Eye outpatients clinic . The year 2000 sees me open my own practice in Yeppoon, joining with
my husband Tom’s practice in Rockhampton and continuing with Blackwater. I completed my Therapeutic certification in 2005 and a Masters in Public Health in 2013. After 20 years we now have two practices in Rockhampton and Yeppoon where I consult. I am married to Tom Moore also an optometrist and have a son Eamon, a lawyer, and daughter Matilda who is studying optometry.

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Nancy is the current Vice 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.

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Since graduating from QUT in 1993, Melinda’s career has been varied, practicing in the private practices, hospitals and in the corporate setting, in roles ranging from clinical, managerial and educator. Melinda has also been a Clinical supervisor at QUT at different times since 2000. Melinda has completed a post-graduate Master of Optometry, MBA, and Graduate Certificate of Ocular Therapeutics. Currently Melinda is a PhD candidate at UNSW where her research interests include eyecare delivery, glaucoma, dry eye and myopia control. A keen interest in advancing the profession of optometry through professional leadership, advocacy and clinical governance, led Melinda to become an OQNT board director in 2015 and President in 2017.

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Shuva is a clinical optometrist with general registration with therapeutic endorsement through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Throughout his career Shuva has practiced optometry in retail and medical settings in metropolitan and rural areas across the country.

He is currently a Clinical Supervisor at the QUT Optometry Clinic assisting students in developing skills in clinical diagnostics and case management.

Shuva has also participated as a volunteer optometrist in oversease health aid camps. Shuva believes in a holistic approach to providing comprehensive optometric services. His research interests lie in contact lenses, dry eye management and ocular disease management, and arises from the opportunity for involvement in innovation for the betterment of the general community health.

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Courtenay is a current board member of Optometry Australia, Qld / NT Optometry division and chair of the Early Career Optometry (ECO) committee. She has enjoyed supervising Master of Optometry students at QUT across all clinical specialties, but most notably in paediatrics, for almost a decade. In addition to recently acting in a shared clinical coordinator role at the same clinic, she now also works there in her capacity as an optometrist for ocular therapeutic trials. Prior to this she has spent time practicing in many clinical settings including specialty paediatric private practice and screening clinics, various fast-paced corporate optometry companies, several ophthalmology specialty clinics and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander shared care hospital settings. Courtenay advocates interdisciplinary collaboration and inter-professional learning and strongly believes in the further education of optometrists in order to impart a high level of care and compassion to those patients within the disability sector.

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I was born and raised in Darwin in the NT. After graduating from QUT in 2010 I moved back home to Darwin where I still live with my husband and two young daughters. I have been an Optometrist with Specsavers for 13 years and an Optometry Partner at Specsavers Palmerston for the past 9 years. I find Optometry incredibly rewarding and enjoy the long-term relationships I have made with my patients. Being in Darwin I am exposed to a very diverse demographic and scope of practice. I have interests in Therapeutics, Children’s Vision and Indigenous eye care. Over the years I have supervised many Optometry students and mentored new graduates. I understand the unique challenges of practicing in a regional and remote location and am
passionate about advocating for Optometry, especially in the NT.