by nall486 | Oct 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
Andrew Collins recently attended the Heads of School, and Optometry Regulatory Reference Group meetings held in Melbourne on behalf of the School of Optometry and Vision Science. A key item of discussion for both meetings was the topic of cultural competency [safety]...
by nall486 | Oct 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
PhD student Safal Khanal and Dr John Phillips (with Drs Phil Turnbull and Ehsan Vaghefi) recently published a paper on a non-invasive MRI method for reliably obtaining quantitative measures of blood perfusion in the human eyes. Due to the difficulty in measuring blood...
by nall486 | Oct 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
Vision‐related complaints are among the earliest symptoms in dementia. Examination of the eye has anatomical advantages over the brain because of its transparent ocular media and direct retinal neuronal connections with the brain. Recently Drs Lily Chang, Joanna Black...
by nall486 | Oct 29, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
From left: John Phillips and Asik Pradhan Acting Head of School Dr John Phillips and PhD student Safal Khanal recently attended the Inaugural All Nepal Optometry Conference held on October 5-6 at the Malla Hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal. As an invited keynote speaker of...
by nall486 | Sep 28, 2018 | SOVS Post
Read about the latest advancements at the School of Optometry and Vision Science Dear Colleagues Welcome to the eighth issue of the SOVS newsletter for 2018. First, a variety of congratulations – to Lisa Hamm and Zaria Burden who have recently celebrated their...
by nall486 | Sep 28, 2018 | SOVS Post, This issue
Photo: Dr Ehsan Vaghefi Congratulations to SOVS bioengineer Dr Ehsan Vaghefi who is behind the innovative MyIScope device that has just received nearly $1m in funding in the 2018 round of the Endeavour Fund, New Zealand’s largest contestable research fund. Dr Vaghefi...
