Ali Abud was recently announced as the Optometry Victoria South Australia 2025 Student Award winner for Deakin University. These Student Awards recognise optometry students, as selected by their university faculty, who demonstrate both outstanding academic excellence and a profound commitment to patient care and professionalism.
The 2025 OV/SA Awards were presented on 17 November in Melbourne. We warmly congratulate the 2025 Award recipients, Janelle Scully and Ching Yi Wu, as well as Life Member, Richard Lindsay on their invaluable contributions to optometry.
Katie Tran (Flinders University) and Rita Abou-Issa (The University of Melbourne) are the winners of the 2025 OVSA Student Academic Awards, announced recently. We caught up with Katie and Rita recently to find out about what’s next for their careers as optometrists.
“Optometry should not just be a job. It is an opportunity to make life better for many people” – OV/SA Life Member award winner John Farmer OAM discusses his life-changing work in Papua New Guinea and the future of optometry.
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.
