ECOVSA: Practical Paediatric Prescribing - Spectacle & Therapeutic Prescribing Tips
Date: 21/02/2022 (AEDT)
Venue: Online Webinar
Provider: Optometry Vic/SA
Contact: Lisa Busuttil, [E] l.busuttil@optometry.org.au, [P] 0396529101
Learning Objectives
- Participating optometrists will respond to their learning needs and develop their knowledge of the common ocular medicines employed in paediatric optometry practice
- Participating Optometrists will respond to their learning needs and develop their knowledge of refractive and prismatic prescription options in paediatric optometry practice
Max CPD hours awarded: 2
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| ECOVSA: Practical Paediatric Prescribing: Spectacle and Therapeutic prescribing tips |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 2 |
Meet your Speakers:
 Associate Professor Ann Webber Ann has more than 30 years of clinical practice experience and in 2009 completed a PhD that explored the effect of amblyopia (lazy eye) in children.
Ann studied Optometry in Brisbane and completed her degree at QUT in 1984, graduating with a BAppSc(Optom)(Hons) and pursued post-graduate studies at UHCO in Houston, USA, completing a Master of Science in Physiological Optics in 1988.
The period in Houston, which provided clinical and research opportunities, proved a valuable experience in developing Ann’s interest in children’s vision and vision research. Ann was awarded a PhD through the QLD University of Technology in 2009 for her research that addressed the impact of lazy eye in children. Ann is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry.
In 2015 Ann was made a Diplomate in the Binocular Vision, Perception, & Paediatric Optometry (BVPPO) Section of the American Academy of Optometry.
In 2014 Ann was honoured by being the recipient of the Hamlyn R Brier Clinical Optometry Award from Optometry Queensland.
|
 Tim Fricke
Tim is an optometrist, researcher and international development practitioner. He has held clinical, teaching, research and management roles in private, public, community health, hospital and refugee camp settings, including Director of Specialty & Community Services at the Australian College of Optometry, principal at MinneMerri Consultants, and honorary senior fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has extensive paediatric clinical experience, supervised post-graduate research in paediatric eye care and health economics, taught undergraduate and post-graduate eye care courses, provided continuing professional development across Australia and internationally, and researched vision development, epidemiology, quality of life and access to eye care. He has assisted the development of local systems and skills for providing primary and specialised eye care in Australia, Tanzania, Burundi, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, PNG and Timor Leste. He is currently Executive Director at the Brien Holden Vision Institute. |