Dr Ehsan Vaghefi has been awarded a Health Research Council (HRC) Explorer grant of $150,000 for his work on Optical Laser Biometry (OLB). This technology, developed at the School of Optometry and Vision Science (SOVS), combines two laser-based imaging techniques with a platform for visualising the
Renata Watene, director and optometrist of Occhiali Optometrists in Ponsonby, Auckland, has won a commendation for both the Tāmaki Makaurau and Business Collaboration sections in this year’s Māori Business Women Awards.
The New Zealand Association of Optometrists (NZAO) 2018 student awards was an upbeat affair, with NZAO board members amusingly recounting their first days in the job and reminiscing about the personalities behind many of the newly-named awards.
The Eye Health Coalition met with a cross-party group of MPs to help push ahead with its mission to vastly improve access to good quality eye care for all New Zealanders.
On a very stormy evening in April, Auckland Eye held its first Insight seminar of the year over dinner at Auckland’s Orakei Bay function centre.
Dr Stuti Misra, a lecturer in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Auckland, was awarded an Early Career Research Excellence Award (ECREA) at the University’s Celebrating Research Excellence 2018 evening in May.
Manurewa MP Louisa Wall has been a champion of Essilor’s Vision Foundation in New Zealand ever since the Foundation found 30% of the kids in her region’s schools couldn’t see properly and didn’t even know about it. Since then she’s worked tirelessly to support the Foundation’s work and champion the
The winner of the 2018 Ocular Therapeutics Conference (OTC) survey was Whangaparaoa-based optometrist Graeme Cole.
After several meetings, rejections and new requests for feedback, aflibercept (Eylea), used to treat degenerative eye conditions, has finally been given the funding go-ahead from 1 June this year, for both hospitals and the community.
New Zealand Professor Charles McGhee has been named as one of the Top 100 most influential people in ophthalmology today.
Two Australian ophthalmologists and a New Zealand eye doctor have been named among the Top 100 most influential people in ophthalmology today. Professor Graham Barrett, head of the ophthalmology department at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital in Perth, who devised the popular Barrett Toric Calculator a
Southern Eye SpecialistsDr Antony Bedggood has recently joined the team of surgeons at Southern Eye Specialists. Dr Bedggood, an experienced cataract and general ophthalmologist, has specialist
