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Corneal Lens Corporation (CLC) has loaned the Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) the sMap 3D – a state-of-the-art corneal topographer for designing custom-made rigid gas permeable contact lenses.
Re:Vision held its first ever co-management optometry conference at its purpose-built clinic in Mount Wellington, Auckland. Morning breakfast bites were served with a healthy side of conversation and lots of coffee, dispensed in Re:Vision reusable coffee cups.
An upbeat entrance through a high-tech trade fair was the welcome for this year’s glaucoma New Zealand symposium at Alexandra Park in Auckland. A record number of nurses and ophthalmic technicians, and even one GP, turned up as part of the 120-strong delegate list to hear talks and case studies from
The ’80s: bad hairdos, shoulder pads, high-waisted jeans and male optoms vastly outnumbering female optoms. Then, in 1987, things changed. For the first time, female optometry students outnumbered males and this has been the pattern ever since, except for 2001.
The International Orthoptic Association (IOA) is the global voice of the orthoptic profession and is made up of 15 national professional organisations and six associate organisations. The IOA World Orthoptic Day aims to boost the visibility of the orthoptic profession and promote the activities of o
The Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre in Mount Wellington, Auckland on a March summer’s day was the setting for the third Ocular Therapeutics Conference, run by the Buchanan Ocular Therapeutics Unit at the University of Auckland. Once again, this increasingly popular conference boasted a mix of s
The orthoptics profession is in high demand in New Zealand with a staggering one fifth of the clinical positions (five of 26) nationwide currently vacant. Yet the orthoptics profession does not appear on the skilled shortage list in New Zealand. Carly Henley, president of the New Zealand Orthoptics
The annual Excellence in Ophthalmology and Vision Research prize evening celebrates talented personalities early in their ophthalmic careers as well as remembering
The first of the two-repeated autumn seminar evenings by Retina Specialists was held on 6 March in the leafy Auckland suburb of Parnell. Attending optometrists were greeted by the Retina Specialists
In December 2017, Dr Martin Kollmann, a consultant ophthalmologist and associate professor at the University of Nairobi, travelled to New Zealand to address delegates from the partnerships,
This year’s CCLS one-day conference once again promises some very interesting topics delivered by some great speakers specialised in cornea and contact lenses (CLs). Ella Ewens asked a few of the key speakers at this year’s event about what they were presenting and why and how they came to be involv
Nutrition for optimal eye health is an exciting area that has gained a huge amount of interest recently, and for good reason. Our ageing population, coupled with a decreasing death rate means eye care practitioners will be faced with an increasing number of patients suffering from age-related eye di