Opportunity to kick start CPD points for 2012
Eye Institute annual scientific conference 2011 – Sunday November 6
Delegates attending the annual Eye Institute scientific conference being held Sunday November 6 will receive six hours of CPD points for the 2012 year.
With more than 250 attendees last year, Eye Institute’s annual scientific conference has established itself as one of the most popular educational events on the optometric calendar. Once again, the focus will be on short, to-the-point lectures on how to apply evidencebased medicine to everyday optometric practice.
Indigenous eye health pioneer Professor Hugh Taylor, who holds the Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne, is this year’s ophthalmology guest speaker. Previously he was Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Melbourne and the founding director of the Centre for Eye Research Australia. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Ophthalmology at the Wilmer Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with joint appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and International Health.
Professor Taylor’s research interests include blindness prevention strategies, infectious causes of blindness and the relationship between medicine, public health and health economics. He began working alongside Fred Hollows in the 70s, and has for over 30 years been striving to eradicate trachoma, a treatable eye disease causing blindness which disproportionately affects indigenous Australians.
Professor Taylor has written 23 books and reports, including a recent book on trachoma, and more than 600 scientific papers. He has received multiple international awards and prizes including 13 named lectures.
In 2001, he was made a Companion in the Order of Australia. He is vice president of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, treasurer of the International Council of Ophthalmology and deputy chairman of Vision 2020 Australia.
Professor Taylor will present on the impact of vision loss, vision loss in indigenous Australians and diabetic retinopathy.
The conference is being held 8am to 5pm at the Owen G Glenn Building, University of Auckland Business School, Auckland. Free parking is available for the event.
All the partners from Eye Institute as well as Prof Charles McGhee and newly appointed associate Dr Hussain Patel will be delivering lectures. An industry exhibition will be put on by the sponsors of the clinical conference. These sponsors include:
- Platinum Plus Sponsor – Alcon
- Platinum Sponsor – OptiMed
- Gold Sponsor – Bausch + Lomb, GE Money
- Silver – Carl Zeiss, Designs for Vision, ASB, Allergan, Healthpoint, Device Technologies, Abbott Medical Technologies
- Bronze – Ophthalmic Instrument Company
Glaucoma NZ will also have a presence at the conference with an exhibition stand encouraging optometrists to enrol all their glaucoma patients with Glaucoma NZ as part of an ongoing initiative to raise awareness and increase treatment compliance.
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