The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmology (RANZCO) hosted its 50th annual Scientific Congress in Adelaide, South Australia at the end of 2018, at the heart of the swooping season.
The Adelaide convention centre, with its mega floor to ceiling windows overlooking Adelaide’s stunning Riverbank Precinct and River Torrens was a pleasant surprise after so many walled in conference venues. The RANZCO 2018 exhibition room was also light and airy and hosted a hive of seemingly consta
Stock control: it’s an area many practice owners and managers struggle with. Too much, not enough, the wrong sort, the list goes on. So here are a few tips from those in the know: Peggy Savage, a highly experienced dispensing optician at Matthews Eyewear Eyecare in New Plymouth, New Zealand, and Aly
The 88th annual New Zealand Association of Optometrists (NZAO) conference was held in Paihia, mere meters from the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. The key themes of this year’s conference were encouragement through collaboration, growth through the honourable path of making horrible mistakes and, oddly eno
2018 is coming to a close and another year at Auckland University’s School of Optometry and Vision Science has passed. With optometry students all done with exams for the year, pens and papers are being swapped for bathing suits and summer gear, so perhaps now is a good time to reflect upon the year
The 2018 Eye Institute Annual Conference once again kicked off with two very practical workshops, this year tackling foreign body removal and gonioscopy.
In our experience, we find many businesses rate strategy as hugely important but don’t have the time, skills or knowledge to implement meaningful strategy in their own businesses. This often stems from business owners being subject to the ‘tyranny of urgent’ – meaning everyday tasks often take prece
This year’s Eye Institute conference featured guest speaker Professor Joanne Wood, from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, and showcased some of the newer members of the team alongside those we have come to expect at this annual event.
When I first arrived at St George’s Eye Care (SGEC), I already knew that Christchurch and the South Island had so much to offer from great windsurfing (my passion) and surfing to cycling (another passion) tramping and skiing. So when I started to lead the service at SGEC, I wanted to ensure the care
A few months ago I was supervising a 5th year optometry student’s primary care clinic. It was a simple dry eye follow up. The patient Josh (not his real name) was a 26-year-old male economics student, who one could say erred on the side of being a pedantic hypochondriac. Nevertheless, the persisting
Face à Face founder Pascal Jaulent, head designer of the Design Eyewear Group (DEG) describes himself as a conductor, working with DEG’s designers to ensure the quality and creativity of each of DEG’s brands, Face à Face, WOOW, Prodesign, InFace, Kilsgaard Eyewear and Nifities.
Taking pride of place in Silmo Paris’ “Next” area this year was a cute robot - well the face design on the monitor was cute - from Paris-based artificial creature design company Spoon.ai. Business development manager Edouard Normand says one day robots with faces could replace information touch scre
