A warm summer evening and the lure of the beach or BBQ were not enough to deter attendance at the Eye Doctors’ first Grand Round in February at the Novotel Ellerslie, Auckland. The four presenting ophthalmologists gave the full house plenty to think about and, together with the CPD points and networ
Our grandfather was very loved by his family and never in any way neglected or overlooked. I just want to make that clear, because now I want to say this: after the funeral, his ashes were placed on a shelf by the undertaker, waiting to be collected. And there they stayed, waiting, for 20 years.
When South Island optometrist John Veale hopped on a plane recently to Rarotonga, for what was perhaps his 40th trip with the NZ Aid eye team, he expected to see a few urgent medical cases. He didn’t expect to be one himself!
A brilliant line-up of local and international speakers from both optometry and ophthalmology, coupled with a return to the Cornea and Contact Lens Society (CCLS) favourite, Rotorua, provided for a full-house turnout this year.
Prepping for the end of the financial year is about as mundane a task as a business can perform. Or, at least, the old way was.
The Summer Scholar Symposium is an opportunity to recognise students who chose to undertake some real research projects within the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences (FMHS) at the University of Auckland during their summer break.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) New Zealand Branch Annual Scientific Meeting 2019 is one of the most important meetings in the new Zealand ophthalmic calendar. The meeting is unique in that it is attended by two specialist groups, as it incorporates the New
Auckland university’s School of Optometry and Vision Science (SOVS) held its annual Low Vision Day on 7 March 2019. The day is designed for final year (part five) optometry students to gain valuable hands on experience working with low vision patients to increase our knowledge and awareness of the d
The Australian and New Zealand Strabismus Society (ANZSS), better known as the Squint Club, held their 2019 meeting at the Melbourne Children’s Hospital.
In 2015, Macular Degeneration New Zealand (MDNZ) launched its Professional Friends network; a chance to give something back to a charity at the frontline of macular degeneration education and to benefit by association. Here, three-year member, optometrist John Adam, explains the benefits of being a
The role of OCT in differentiating optic disc drusen from oedema; Multimodal imaging of buried optic nerve head drusen; A population-based evaluation of the association between hormonal contraceptives and idiopathic intracranial hypertension
The vitreous gel fills the posterior segment of the eye and has a volume of about 4ml. It is composed of 98% water and 2% structural proteins and extracellular matrix components. Collagen is the major