Nominations are now open for Optometry Victoria South Australia’s newly unveiled Rising Star and Optometrist of the Year awards, as well as nominations for the renewed Life Member award.
Nominations are now open for the 2023 Optometry Victoria South Australia Life Member award, which has been updated with new criteria.
O=MEGA and the 4th World Congress of Optometry (WCO) promises to be a game-changer, bringing together experts and professionals from the optometric community around the world for a unique opportunity to share knowledge, research and ideas in Melbourne.
Optometry Victoria South Australia is always on the lookout to engage with the next generation of optometrists, whether they be new graduates or students looking forward to their careers. View photos from the events.
With regular visits to optometrists and ophthalmologists when he was young, Simon has always felt engaged with the world of optometry. As a member of ‘a family of myopes’, visits were never a foreign experience, with regular examinations for his childhood strabismus acquainting him with the lenses and equipment from an early age. Now twenty years into his optometry career, he reflects on what he’s achieved across the industry.
On Monday, 27 March, Optometry Victoria South Australia (OV/SA) hosted their 100th Annual Golf Day at the Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club in Victoria. After a century of Golf, OV/SA is passing the torch to charity partner Sight For All, who will host the event from 2024 onwards.
Recently, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) South Australia (SA) Road Safety Committee wrote to OV/SA regarding the correspondence they received from optometrists.
We sat down with Giorgio Campanella to hear about his experience with helping create a comprehensive large-scale national dataset for optometry.
Since she was eight, Claire Ong has known she wanted to be an optometrist. OV/SA spoke to her about her journey through optometry and hopes for the future.
OV/SA spoke to Tristan Fernandez, who won the Optometry Victoria South Australia Deakin University Student Academic Award on On Monday, 13 February.
In the spirit of reconciliation Optometry Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
