Eye Institute is formalising its social endeavours under a new community trust, which initially will be focused on providing assistance to Auckland-based families by funding up to 400 eye examinations
Health Minister Dr David Clark has announced new chairs to lead Auckland’s three District Health Boards. The Auckland, Waitemata and Counties-Manukau DHBs have had acting chairs since December following the resignation of Lester Levy, who had led all three boards.
The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) has introduced state-of-the-art virtual reality simulators to train the next generation of eye surgeons.The RVEEH’s new Eyesi Surgical simulators allow
The ninth joint Auckland University Department of Ophthalmology and School of Optometry and Vision Science Summer Student Symposium in March was an upbeat affair. Amusingly chaired by Professor Trevor
Two patients with severe wet AMD, implanted with a specially-engineered retinal pigment epithelium cells patch, derived from stem cells, have regained their reading vision in a ground-breaking
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
The biennial Retina International World Congress was held for the first time in Auckland on the 10 and 11 February. With recent host cities including Taipei and Paris, Auckland had a lot to live up
The New Zealand Branch RANZCO committee welcomes everyone to Auckland for the 2018 conference.This year we have decided to not have a specific educational theme, but rather to offer a broad range of
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,
ONZ: ophthalmology with one voiceBy Moira McInerney, ONZ executive directorThe board of ONZ is delighted to announce that we have welcomed many new members to the organisation over the last four
Oculo says it will now be rolling out its cloud-based secure messaging and clinical communication software, designed to better connect optometrists and ophthalmologists, in New Zealand over the next
A new species of parasitic nematode has now been identified in three previously healthy, relatively young residents of Saipan, the largest island of the US-managed Northern Mariana Islands in the
