Regional Seminar (Launceston) How hard can it be? Tips in getting started in custom contact lens design
Date: 14/03/2024 (AEDT)
Venue: Grand Chancellor Hotel, 29 Cameron St, Launceston , TAS, 7250
Provider: Optometry Tas
Contact: Lisa Busuttil, [E] l.busuttil@optometry.org.au, [P] 0396529101
Activity Outline
How hard can it be? Tips in getting started in custom contact lens design
A beginners guide to getting started in custom contact lens design. Learn what equipment you need and how to use it, what support is out there, and some tips for successful fitting.
Speakers: Damon Hannay and Martin Robinson
Learning Objectives
- Identify which patients would benefit from a custom contact lens design over a disposable one and how to choose the appropriate lens material and design.
- Understand what options/designs are available to the specialty contact lens practitioner.
- Understand how to best use topographers, contact lens trial sets and laboratories to successfully fit custom contact lenses.
Max CPD hours awarded: 2
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| How hard can it be? Tips in getting started in custom contact lens design |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 2 |
Meet your speakers:
 Damon Hannay |
Damon graduated from Queensland University of Technology in 2006 with first class honours in a Bachelor of Optometry. He completed the graduate certificate in ocular therapeutics in 2009, is a CASA credentialled Optometrist, and a member of the Cornea & Contact Lens Society of Australia (CCLSA) and Orthokeratology Society of Oceania (OSO).
After roughly a decade working around the country, he settled in Launceston Tasmania in 2012 where he now acts as an optometry director of a large practice of 8 optometrists. Damon has a passion for specialty contact lens fitting in keratoconus with particular interest in scleral lens design. |
 Martin Robinson |
Being in the graduate class of 1994 from QUT, Martin originally worked in country Queensland. This Included fly in, fly out work in concert with Dr Gary Brian of the Fred Hollows Foundation in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities. He also worked with corneal surgeons, fitting RGP contact lenses to post graft corneas.
In 2006 he made his way south to Hobart for a slower pace of life. Since 2009, he has been owner and principal optometrist in his own independent optometry practice and has a keen interest in contact lenses and dry eye disease. He has worked closely with ophthalmologists and oncologists helping diagnose and treat their dry eye patients. Martin writes a regular column for the Cornea and Contact Lens Society of Australia (CCLSA), has spoken at state, national, and international conferences and has published dry eye disease continuing education pieces for optometrists and ophthalmologists. Since 2017, he has been Tasmanian state president of the CCLSA and in 2022 he was elected as national president of the CCLSA. |
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