If you’re a recent optometry graduate or even if you’ve be practicing for a few years, you might be anxious about how best to triage patients with urgent ocular conditions such as retinal tears or bleeds, trauma, angle closure, and more.
Join our experienced speakers and learn which conditions are urgent and which are emergencies, as well as how the referral pathways operate in NSW and ACT.
CPD hours: 1.5 clinical, therapeutic, ONLINE event
Free event. OA members only.
Schedule
7.00pm – Introduction
7.05pm – Referring for public eye care: Rajeev Naidu (NSW) and Layal Naji (ACT)
7.30pm – ‘Sleeping well in your first year of private practice’ – Emergency triage case studies (Matthew Wells)
8.00pm – Panel discussion/Q&A Chaired by Judy Nam
8.30pm – Finish
Speakers
Layal Naji is a lecturer of optometry at the University of Canberra and co-established the outreach optometry clinic at the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown, Sydney. She graduated from UNSW School of Optometry with Honours and is therapeutically endorsed. She has previously practiced Low Vision optometry with UNSW School of Optometry and Vision Science (SOVS) and Guide Dogs, and was a clinical supervisor at UNSW and the Australian College of Optometry (ACO). Her areas of interest are public health, neuro-optometry, and ocular manifestations of chronic lifestyle-related disease.
Rajeev Naidu is an Ophthalmology Registrar in the Sydney Eye Hospital Network, as well as an optometrist with over 10 years of experience in clinical optometry. Having graduated in optometry from UNSW, he went on to complete his medical degree at University of Sydney. He continues to practice optometry within NSW and has a particular interest in paediatric optometry. He has published several peer-reviewed articles in international journals in the areas of myopia control and refractive surgical treatments for high myopia. He was the founding president of Young Optometrists NSW/ACT and remains active in teaching across both optometry and medicine.
Matthew Wells is a comprehensive ophthalmologist who has expertise in the diagnosis and management of glaucoma. He is passionate about education and awareness of preventable blindness for conditions such as glaucoma. He studied medicine at the University of Notre Dame. After completing his intern and residency Matthew was trained in Ophthalmology at the Sydney Eye Hospital. In his final year he worked in the Sydney Eye Hospital Professorial team, working with patients with a broad range of conditions including advanced uveitis, glaucoma and corneal disease. During this time he developed a special interest in glaucoma. A sub-specialty fellowship in glaucoma at Westmead Hospital allowed him to hone his skill in the diagnosis and management of all types of glaucoma. During the Westmead Hospital fellowship he was also trained in the surgical management of glaucoma using trabeculectomy, aqueous shunts as well as Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS). Matthew is visiting Consultant Ophthalmologist at Sydney Eye Hospital. Along with his clinical duties, this role allows him to pursue his passion for teaching. He also teaches at the Sydney University Ophthalmic Masters course.