by nall486 | May 2, 2019 | SOVS Post, This issue
Image: NZAO Award winners with NZAO president Rochelle van Eysden On Thursday 11 April 2019 Optometry students, teaching staff from the School of Optometry and Vision Science, and council members from the New Zealand Association of Optometrists (NZAO) came together...
by nall486 | May 2, 2019 | SOVS Post, This issue
From left: Michael White (Visique Whakatane), Sushmita Chinchankar (BOptom student) and Ian Finch (Visique Whakatane) Last month’s newsletter introduced the Rural Health Interprofessional Programme (RHIP) and SOVS’ first engagement with this initiative by sending...
by nall486 | May 2, 2019 | SOVS Post, This issue
Image: Wilson Pan (on right) at the Stony Brook University Lab, New York, USA. PhD candidate Wilson Pan has been awarded a 2019 Claude McCarthy Fellowship. The Claude McCarthy Fellowship was established following Mr McCarthy’s death in 1978. The trust is managed by...
by nall486 | May 2, 2019 | SOVS Post
Plans for this year’s SOVS conference are well underway. A glaucoma peer review workshop has been added to the schedule, and an update on CPD points will be available shortly. Full registration fees are $150. A discounted rate of $100 is available to our placement and...
by nall486 | May 2, 2019 | SOVS Post
Refurbishment of Teaching Lab to support optometric education The School of Optometry and Vision Science recently upgraded the highly specialised Audio-Visual (AV) system in the school’s pre-clinical teaching suite, which is used extensively in the teaching of...
by nall486 | May 2, 2019 | SOVS Post
Dear Colleagues Welcome to the April issue of our newsletter for 2019. I do not feel able to write this welcome without acknowledging the tragic events in Christchurch on March 15. As a relatively recent arrival here one thing is clear: as well as the terrible impact...
