Dr Higginbotham will discuss gender and diversity at Vision Research's seminar

The Vision Research Foundation is inviting optometrists and ophthalmologists to a dinner seminar in Auckland on 21 February featuring US-based Dr Eve Higginbotham, who will discuss ‘The house of medicine culture: why it matters’ tackling gender and diversity in medicine'.  

A practicing glaucoma specialist, Dr Higginbotham is the inaugural vice dean for inclusion and diversity at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a role she has held since 2013. She is also a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics and professor of ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania. 

The free dinner seminar will be held at Orakei Bay, 231 Orakei Rd, Orakei, Auckland from 6.30pm-8pm. To register, click here.