Naomi Meltzer is an optometrist who has recently retired from running an independent practice specialising in low-vision consultancy. She is a regular contributor to NZ Optics.
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With Glaucoma New Zealand’s annual public awareness campaign ‘Eye Believe’ running in conjunction with World Glaucoma Week (6-12 March) this month, low vision consultant Naomi Meltzer shares some
Presbyopia is almost as inevitable as death and taxes. Practical solutions have been sought since time immemorial, particularly ones that free us of pesky spectacles or contact lenses.
With a career spanning more than 50 years, including the move from senior partner at one of the biggest independent practices at the turn of century, Barry & Beale, to its corporate successor OPSM, optometrist Roger Apperley has experienced many optometry changes in New Zealand.
At last, an event free of a single mention of Covid-19! The Summer Scholar Symposium is the culmination of the efforts of University of Auckland students who spent the break between academic years working on research projects.
Ken Brandt has had poor vision since being born prematurely, with subsequent progressive myopia resulting in a detached retina and eventually also cataracts. With six eye operations to his name, his acuity has bounced around between about 6/15 and less than 6/123, so legally blind, over 40 years.
The rise of webinars in our post-Covid-19 world has opened up avenues of education extending beyond borders and time zones. Hence a 7pm kick-off in Sydney saw me attend a session on discussing optometry’s role in MBGS and cross-linking, maskless and in my pajamas, with coffee and my one-eyed, three-
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in ‘bionic eyes’, with companies in different parts of the world using different approaches and technologies to develop prostheses to give blind and visually-impaired people a sense of ‘sight’ or, better still, some useable vision.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) has identified indigenous workforce development as a priority. Tackling this in New Zealand, Dr Simone Freundlich, the current
Optometry has been one of the hardest hit industries in the Covid-19 era. Not being an essential service, yet at the same time being a health provider, with a high patient-to-practitioner risk of
It’s been a few years now since I escaped from my windowless dark room and looming corporate confinement. I went rogue to develop something I always wanted to do; help people who struggle to see despite their swanky spectacles (or $2 shop hobby glasses) and drainage clogging contact lenses.
The gorgeous city of Napier, which proudly showcases it’s rise from the devastation of the 1931 earthquake to become the Art Deco capital of New Zealand, turned on a splendid weekend for the 89th New Zealand Association of Optometrists conference.
Dr Dean Corbett opened Auckland Eye’s 2019 Insight series, welcoming attendees and introducing the team’s newest addition, Dr Taras Papchenko, who replaces Dr Paul Rosser.
