by ewoo670 | Jul 6, 2020 | SOVS Post
Image: Professional Teaching Fellow, Kerry Atkinson Professional Teaching Fellow Kerry Atkinson is the recipient of a 2020 Dennis Pickup Clinical Educator Award. These awards are named for Dennis Pickup, a former CEO of Auckland Healthcare, which is now known as the...
by ewoo670 | Jul 6, 2020 | SOVS Post
Image: Professional Teaching Fellow Jaymie Rogers Professional Teaching Fellow Jaymie Rogers is one of only two recipients in 2020 awarded the distinguished University of Auckland Senior Health Research Scholarship. Jaymie has been working with SOVS since 2014...
by ewoo670 | Jul 6, 2020 | SOVS Post
Image: Associate Professor Jacqueline Ramke Associate Professor Jacqueline Ramke, who was profiled in our last newsletter here, has been awarded an Emerging Researcher First Grant from the Health Research Council (HRC). The risk of developing diabetic retinopathy or...
by ewoo670 | Jul 6, 2020 | SOVS Post
Image: Professor Steven Dakin SOVS Head of School Professor Steven Dakin has been raising awareness of New Zealand’s issue with eye health inequity. Steven was featured in (and on the cover of) the June UniNews magazine, and was interviewed by Kathryn Ryan from Radio...
by ewoo670 | Jul 6, 2020 | SOVS Post
Image: Dr Ehsan Vaghefi Bioengineer and Senior Lecturer Dr Ehsan Vaghefi received Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI) funding in 2019 to investigate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent diabetes retinopathy (loss of vision) for diabetes sufferers...
by ewoo670 | Jul 6, 2020 | SOVS Post
Image: From left – Professor Ludwig Heindl, Dr Keith Pine and Dr Alexander Rokohl at the University of Cologne, Germany For the past 10 years SOVS and the NZ National Eye Centre has carried out research into Ocular Prosthetics. Dr Keith Pine, Associate Professor...
