An iPad app allowing regular home monitoring by AMD and glaucoma patients enables them to detect vision changes, prompting them to seek help from their optometrist.
A Melbourne optometrist’s research in stroke patients may help pave the way for optometrists to work in hospital neurology wards and use an app to detect vision problems earlier after stroke.
Optometry Australia is encouraging members to identify if they are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin at membership renewal time. This will ultimately help improve care for Indigenous people.
Early career optometrists John De Francesco and Emma Robinson share the rewarding experiences they had on a medical ship to remote communities of Papua New Guinea.
New online ways of learning about eyes are transforming the nation’s optometry schools during the coronavirus pandemic. We ask a lecturer and a student how they are coping.
Optometrist Leigh Plowman has established a dry eye website, Dry Eye Directory, to connect patients to optometrists who treat the condition.
The second in our series of stories on women in optometry pays tribute to two leading optometrist researchers; the ‘Mother of Orthokeratology’ Professor Helen Swarbrick and rising clinical research star Associate Professor Laura Downie.
Juggling practice ownership and motherhood is not easy but optometrists Elise Pocknee-Clem and Kelly Gibbons are prime examples of how to do it successfully and maintain a healthy work/life balance.
Australian optometrists appear aware of emerging evidence around myopia treatment, but are not routinely adopting measures that have not yet received regulatory approval for modulating childhood myopia progression, a survey shows.
Research underway in Australia will develop an artificial intelligence platform to help optometrists improve the accuracy of their diagnosis, management and referral of patients.
