More than 80 member optometrists have signed up as mentors and mentees to our free mentoring program. Here we profile four and explain how you can help your colleagues or be helped.
With the Optometry Board of Australia’s new mandatory CPD system commencing in eight days, we are here to support you through the transition. Join our Professional Development and Clinical Policy Manager Simon Hanna, or another of our optometry advisors, for a live CPD changes Zoom chat. Read more.
Have you registered for The Resilience Box® yet? Our new, digital platform gives you all the tools for boosting your mental health and wellbeing.
Just three years after graduating, NSW optometrist Lauren Hutchinson has been named an Eye Health Hero by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.
Australian researchers will collaborate with Indian colleagues to investigate contact lenses as drug delivery systems to control, manage and treat various ocular diseases.
Talented early career optometrist Dr Jack Phu is the first Australian to receive the American Academy of Optometry Foundation’s Beta Sigma Kappa research fellowship and will use the funds to progress his research to tailor glaucoma treatment.
Optometry Australia’s fifth annual ECO Think Tank has identified supporting the mental health and wellbeing of early career optometrists as a priority.
As COVID-19 restrictions ease in parts of Australia, it’s back to business for many optometrists who will be looking forward to resuming full-time hours and returning to some sort of normality. But what is the new normal?
Optometry Australia is developing guidelines on telehealth and optometry; meanwhile many tele-optometry success stories are occurring during COVID-19.
A review of evidence, published in July’s Clinical and Experimental Optometry, indicates the eye is an unlikely site for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, suggesting coronaviruses are not likely to bind to ocular surface cells to initiate infection.
