Diagnosis and management of youth concussion can be improved by increasing repetitions from 10 to 20 when assessing saccadic eye function and gaze stability, new research suggests.
Dr Jack Phu is encouraging optometrists to practise a more personalised approach to managing glaucoma rather than a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach including re-thinking whether to treat or monitor pre-perimetric glaucoma. Read more.
An Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia grant is helping Perth early career optometrist Dr Jason Charng explore new frontiers in retinal gene therapy.
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.
The Australian College of Optometry has welcomed a new president, Perth optometrist Rodney Hodge, and a new member of Council, The Hon John Chaney, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
Optometry Australia’s fifth annual ECO Think Tank has identified supporting the mental health and wellbeing of early career optometrists as a priority.
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.
Perth optometrist Robyn Main was caught up in the pandemonium of returning to Australia amid the coronavirus pandemic after she had been volunteering on an eye care aid trip to Sri Lanka.
The final in our series on female optometrists, this piece profiles two practitioners working in public health – Sarah Nicholls from the NT and Stephanie Bahler from WA.
Studies on the effects of virtual reality on myopia have so far had mixed results, but will be discussed by optometrist Dr Kate Gifford at WAVE 2020.
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.
