Greenlane Eye Clinic recently held its second Eyes on Collaboration seminar focusing on paediatric eye care and enhancing collaboration between community optometrists and the hospital eyecare team.
Uncorrected refractive errors account for up to 96% of visual impairment in school-aged children and are associated with amblyopia and strabismus development, and reduced performance in early literacy tests, reading ability and academic achievement. Amblyopia treatment is most effective before seven
After the welcome and mihi, Jack Phu from the Centre for Eye Health in Sydney opened this year’s University of Auckland School of Optometry and Vision Science (SOVS) conference with a talk on reconciling structure and function in disease diagnosis.