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Brain Day

Brain Day

Image: SOVS researchers with some of the hands-on equipment used at Brain Day Brain Day is an informative and fun day of neuroscience at the University of Auckland Business School on 21 July 2018. SOVS was represented by Drs Monica Acosta and Joanna Black, and their...
Double success for SOVS PhD student

Double success for SOVS PhD student

Eberhard Dodt Memorial Award Congratulations to SOVS PhD student Safal Khanal for receiving the prestigious Eberhard Dodt Memorial Award for 2018. Safal is the first person from New Zealand to win this award. The award commemorates the life and work of Eberhard Dodt...
School vision testing

School vision testing

For many years staff and student of SOVS have been involved in testing the vision of children at schools in the Auckland area. With the goal of relieving previously undiagnosed vision problems in these children, thorough vision screenings are provided at no charge to...
SOVS annual conference

SOVS annual conference

Around 80 people attended this year’s annual conference held at FMHS on Sunday 29 July for a mixture of clinical sessions, research updates, and hands-on workshops. Keynote speakers Drs Jack Phu and Angelica Ly from the Centre for Eye Health in Sydney were...
Taiwanese students

Taiwanese students

Four students from Taiwan visited New Zealand for four weeks in July and August as part of an exchange programme set up with the new Optometry Department at Asia University, which was recently established by Samuel Chang (BOptom and PhD from SOVS).  The students...