Welcome to RANZCO NZ 2018

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 subspecialty topics, useful to both generalists and subspecialists in medical, nursing and orthoptic fields. The meeting is combined with the NZ Ophthalmic Nurses and the NZ Orthoptic Society, offering plenary sessions targeted to all attendees, followed by concurrent streams for each group.

Our keynote speakers are Professor David Mackey (genetic ophthalmologist, Australia), Dr Brendan Vote (vitreoretinal and cataract specialist, Australia), Associate Professor Lyndell Lim (uveitis and retinal disease, Australia), and Helen Gibbons (Clinical Lead Nurse, UK). These speakers are internationally renowned for their clinical and scientific expertise and their dynamic presentations. They will be joined by a further 60 speakers covering a very wide range of topics including anterior segment, cornea, cataract, uveitis, glaucoma, retina, paediatrics, oculoplastics, oncology, infectious disease, trauma, health care provision, nursing, psychophysics, basic science and emerging technologies.

The conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel which sits in a prime waterfront location in the heart of Auckland, adjacent to all the central Auckland shopping and entertainment venues.

We would like the conference to have a relaxed, collegial, “weekend” feel, and as such, the dress code is casual.

The conference dinner will be held at The Maritime Museum, an iconic venue in Auckland, that celebrates New Zealand’s long and broad association with the sea. In line with the casual tone of the meeting, the dinner will offer a wide variety of quality street food, street entertainers, and a live band.

We are very grateful to the multiple industry sponsors who are facilitating the meeting and there will be a large industry exhibition, covering the latest and greatest ophthalmic technology available in New Zealand.

The venue has a set capacity and so we encourage early registration for what promises to be a broad ranging, contemporary, educational and fun meeting.

To register, please visit: https://ranzcomeetingnz.cvent.com/2018

*Dr Sue Ormonde is a consultant ophthalmologist at Auckland Eye and Greenlane Clinical Centre, a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and a member of the 2018 RANZCO NZ organising committee together with Professor Trevor Sherwin and Sue Raynel from the University’s Department of Ophthalmology.