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24.01.2022 A huge congrats to A/Prof Isabelle Jalbert who today was awarded an UNSW Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in the General Category for 2020. We are so very proud of you Isabelle!

22.01.2022 HDR Student of the Week: Introducing Wilson Luu, a doctoral student working in the areas of low vision and visual perception in patients with age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma using advanced tracking systems and virtual reality devices with Prof Michael Kalloniatis, Dr Juno Kim and Dr Barbara Zangerl. Wilson is exploring how vision loss impacts self-motion in order to provide solutions for improving orientation and mobility. He was a recipient of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision Travel Award in 2019 held in Osaka, Japan. To find out more about Wilson and his research, see here: https://bit.ly/3isqdnZ . . Centre for Eye Health

22.01.2022 Higher Degree Student of the Week: Introducing Melinda Toomey, PhD candidate, whose research is on Improving the Appropriateness of Australian Glaucoma Eyecare Delivery with A/Prof Isabelle Jalbert, Prof Fiona Stapleton, and Prof Lisa Keay. Research shows that there is a gap between what is known (best evidence) and the care provided by clinicians. Melinda’s PhD research investigates the determinants that influence glaucoma care delivery and seeks to design a tailored intervention to improve the appropriateness of glaucoma care delivery by Australian optometrists. Melinda has recently been accepted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. To find out more about Melind and her research see here: https://bit.ly/2Kwtnem

21.01.2022 Early Career Researcher of the Month: Meet Dr Pauline Kang. Pauline is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Optometry and Vision Science leading the Schools research in myopia. Her research aims to identify why children become myopic, and to improve current interventions prescribed to slow myopia progression. Pauline also coordinates the Myopia Clinic (https://www.optometry.unsw.edu.au/optometry-c/myopia-clinic) to not only provide a dedicated service to myopic patients, but to teach evidence-based myopia management to undergraduate Optometry and Vision Science students. For more information on Paulines research, see here: https://bit.ly/34X4eli

21.01.2022 Higher Degree Research Student of the Week: Meet Zahra Tajbakhsh, a clinical optometrist and leading researcher. Her works focus on ocular diseases. For her PhD research project, she is aiming to characterise ocular surface immune cells and their connection with corneal nerves in different types of ocular allergies. The understanding of the ocular neuroimmunology is crucial as ocular allergies are among the fifth most common chronic diseases in industrialised countries. Zahra is proud to be an IMNIS mentee of Med Tech-Pharma Program NSW and is one of the inaugural PhD champions of UNSW Women in Maths and Science. For more information about Zahra and her research see here: https://bit.ly/3aILNBz

21.01.2022 Join the round table discussion of the hot topics from your professions representative Optometry NSW/ACT. Register now! https://forms.gle/cfcz4TBdmPSJYiiK7 #SeeingBeyond2020

21.01.2022 Congrats to Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Shyam Tummanapalli who has been recognised with a Deans Award for Outstanding PhD Theses "Evaluation of corneal nerves & tear neuromediators in diabetic peripheral neuropathy". Awesome work Shyam

21.01.2022 A belated warm welcome to Dr Gordon Diog who has joined the School as an Associate Professor. Dr Doig is the new Head of Research at the Centre for Eye Health. He has a wealth of experience as an epidemiologist across all areas of medicine and we very much look forward to working with him. https://bit.ly/2Hrktxc

20.01.2022 As part of our School's commitment to Equity Diversity and Inclusion we are celebrating Nepals Consititution Day. Today, 20th September (3rd Ashwin of Nepali calendar) commemorates the Constitution Day (National Day) of Nepal. The day is treated as the National Day ( , Sambidhan Diwas) of Nepal and celebrates the adoption of the new constitution which came into effect from the 20th September 2015 replacing the Interim Constitution of 2007. In the year 2016, Nepal marked the first anniversary of the declaration of the new constitution in the country. The official calendar used in Nepal is the Bikram Sambat or Vikram Samvat calendar, which is 56 years, 8 months, and 17 days ahead of the western calendar (currently in the year 2077). For more info about Nepal's Consitutution Day see here: https://bit.ly/3cdLsaK

18.01.2022 This Saturday we would love you to join us for #UNSWOpenDay. Take a virtual tour of our beautiful campus, meet UNSW Science staff and students and ask questions! Register to join us online this Saturday 5 September: https://unsw.to/SciOpenDay20

18.01.2022 SOVS Paper of the Week: SOVS researchers work with Sydney computer scientists to show how deep learning can be used to measure tortuosity in confocal microscopy.

18.01.2022 ECR of the Month Paper: Trinh et al 2018 TVST A challenge in macular degeneration is understanding how the disease develops. Using OCT angiography, this study found retinal vessels may be involved early in the process with vessel density, length and width decreased in intermediate AMD https://bit.ly/3eJvciS

17.01.2022 Contact Lens Health Week Top Tip: Never 'top-off' contact lens cleaning solution #ProtectYourEyes

17.01.2022 Higher Degree Student of the Week: Introducing PhD candidate Rabia Mobeen, an Optometrist born in Dubai and educated in Pakistan. Rabia received her bachelors and masters in optometry degrees from COAVS King Edward Medical University in Lahore, Punjab. Rabias research focuses on the effect of youth and contact lens wear on the ocular surface immune response. Rabia received the William C. Ezell Fellowship from the American Academy of Optometry Foundation, the only Australia...n-based student among the 2020 recipients and the first awardee from Pakistan to do so. She has also received the Joe and Janet Barr Early Career Cornea and Contact Lens Research Award from the American Academy of Optometry Foundation, and the Hikaru Hamano Fellowship from the International Society of Contact Lens Research. Rabia is hugely thankful to her parents and mentors Scientia Prof Fiona Stapleton, A/Prof Blanka Golebiowski, Dr Cecilia Chao, Prof Dr Asad Aslam Khan and her colleague and friend Zahra Tajbakhsh for their continuous motivation and constant support. To find out more about Rabia see here: https://bit.ly/3jIPOZT See more

16.01.2022 Only 11 days till the UNSW SOVS Student Conference! If you havent already sign up now: https://forms.gle/cfcz4TBdmPSJYiiK7 #SeeingBeyond2020 . UNSW Optometry and Vision Science Student Society

16.01.2022 Congrats to our new postgraduate research student representatives: Wilson Luu, Praveen Bandela, Hari Peguda and Rajendra Gyawali. Their role is to act as a liaison between the PG coordinator, PG administrator and students. They represent the needs and interests of the PG students. Their role includes coordinating and managing the PG rooms, assisting new students when onboarding into the School, organising social events and serving as a panel member during the postgraduate r...esearch annual progress review. . . Centre for Eye Health Brien Holden Vision Institute See more

16.01.2022 Our PhD cohort here at the School wish all of our followers happy holidays! To find out more about our school and higher degree program see here: https://www.optometry.unsw.edu.au/stu/postgraduate-research Pic: End of year get together

16.01.2022 Early Career Researcher of the Month Featured Paper: Evidence-based myopia management is increasingly becoming a part of mainstream eye healthcare practice. Dr Pauline Kang was involved in the development of the first ever peer-reviewed clinical guidelines for myopia management.

15.01.2022 Recently we held our Annual Progress Reviews (APR) - virtually! Well done to all of our PhD students who did a stellar job with their presentations. Congrats to the winners of the photo and video competition (Hari Peguda and Nahida Akter) and to Jeremy Chiang who was voted as the 'best presentation'. Check out the wrap up of our APR week written by first year PhD student, Fatima Iqbal: https://bit.ly/3loR2et

15.01.2022 Congrats to Scientia Professor Fiona Stapleton who has featured in The Australian as one of the top 250 researchers in Australia. Fiona has been named as one of the leading scholars in health and medical science - amazing work Fiona! See page 18 and scroll down: https://specialreports.theaustralian.com.au/1540291/ . . UNSW Science UNSW

14.01.2022 UNSW SOVS Academics, Professor Mark Willcox, Dr Alex Hui and team have formed a research partnership with Uka Tarsadia University for drug delivery through contact lenses. See full article below.

13.01.2022 HDR Student of the Week: Introducing Huy Tran, a paediatric ophthalmologist from Vietnam pursuing a PhD in Vision Science researching #myopia and myopia control. Dr Tran is supervised by Prof Padmaja Sankaridurg, A/Prof Yen Tran & Dr Monica Jong. Dr Tran is researching novel compositions for controlling myopia progression in children. He heads the Myopia Clinic at Hai Yen Eye Care, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam which has been established in collaboration with the Brien Holden Vision Institute. To find out more about Huy and his research see here: https://bit.ly/32Sv5xv

13.01.2022 Our office is now closed and will open at 9am on Monday 4 January 2021. Wishing all of our followers, our staff, students, alumni and friends of SOVS happy holidays.

12.01.2022 Well done team!

11.01.2022 We are hiring! SOVS has a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic Optometrist to join our team on a part time basis. This position would assist with industry funded clinical studies being run at the School. To learn more and apply visit: https://bit.ly/3iQnogs

10.01.2022 Happy Wear it Purple Day! This is a throw back picture from last year with our staff showing our support for rainbow young people

10.01.2022 The American Academy of Optometry Foundation would like to recognize the 2020 William C. Ezell Fellowship recipients. For a list of recipients and information about the program please visit https://bit.ly/2PHasN0. #AAOptometry #2020EzellFellow #AAOptometryFoundation

10.01.2022 Today is R U OK? Day. #RUOK is an important question but theres more to say after R U OK? Ask, then listen, encourage action and check in because a conversation could change a life. Learn what to say after R U OK? at www.ruok.org.au #theresmoretosay

09.01.2022 Wishing our staff and students a Happy Yald Night. To find out more about Yald Night or Chelleh Night read about it here: http://bit.ly/3nvIDXr

09.01.2022 Congrats to Professor Mark Willcox and colleagues from Centre for Ocular Research and Education - University of Waterloo, University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Manchester on this amazing achievement. To win an award from the APHA and also hold the highest ever altmetric scores for those particular journals - um...WOW!

09.01.2022 Congrats to SOVS Professor Mark Willcox and collaborator Patrick Liu from EcoAid BioTech who were awarded a grant for their biodegradable anti-viral coating and spray

08.01.2022 SOVS Paper of the Week: Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides and Ciprofloxacin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms The bacterium P. aeruginosa is the main cause of infections of the eye during contact lens wear. We have developed a new antibiotic that stops this P. aeruginosa from colonising contact lenses.

08.01.2022 SOVS paper of the week: Older adults with vision impairment are at risk of falls, but report barriers accessing current community-based fall prevention programs. We investigated how a home-based fall prevention program was adapted to overcome these barriers, from the perspectives of those who delivered the program, and those who received it.

08.01.2022 Contact Lens Health Week Top Tip: Never top-off contact lens cleaning solution #ProtectYourEyes

08.01.2022 SOVS Paper of the Week: Alteration of the pattern of regenerative corneal subbasal nerves after laser in-situ keratomileusis surgery Dr Cecilia Chao (ANT Lab SOVS) reports on a new metric describing alterations in corneal nerve regeneration after LASIK. We would like to thank the late Dr Edward Lum for his contribution to this work. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/opo.12723

07.01.2022 Are you or your child myopic? The Myopia Clinic at the UNSW Optometry Clinic offers treatment options which have been shown through research studies to reduce or stop the progression of myopia including specialty glasses, contact lenses and eye drops. For more information, please visit https://www.optometry.unsw.edu.au/optometry-clinic

07.01.2022 Calling all current SOVS students: Meet your lecturers as they share with you their area of interest and clinical pearls through interactive talks and workshops. Register now! https://forms.gle/cfcz4TBdmPSJYiiK7 #SeeingBeyond2020

07.01.2022 As part of our Schools commitment to Equity Diversity and Inclusion we are celebrating Nepals Consititution Day. Today, 20th September (3rd Ashwin of Nepali calendar) commemorates the Constitution Day (National Day) of Nepal. The day is treated as the National Day ( , Sambidhan Diwas) of Nepal and celebrates the adoption of the new constitution which came into effect from the 20th September 2015 replacing the Interim Constitution of 2007. In the year 2016, Nepal marked the first anniversary of the declaration of the new constitution in the country. The official calendar used in Nepal is the Bikram Sambat or Vikram Samvat calendar, which is 56 years, 8 months, and 17 days ahead of the western calendar (currently in the year 2077). For more info about Nepals Consitutution Day see here: https://bit.ly/3cdLsaK

07.01.2022 SOVS Paper of the Week: Our PhD student Nicole Liu, supervised by Prof. Padmaja Sankaridurg and A/Prof. Thomas John Naduvilath, in collaboration with Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center (SEDPTC), through a two-year trial, identified late sleepers as a susceptible group to both myopia onset and progression. To know more about the findings, read the latest paper below. #myopia #riskfactors #sleep #children Brien Holden Vision Institute https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74348-7

06.01.2022 A team of SOVS academic researchers led by A/Prof Sieu Khuu travelled to Narooma on the NSW east coast last weekend in an effort to engage with the SES on the science of finding things in the Australian bush. Rugged terrain and variation in the type and density of foliage pose real challenges in the task of visually searching for evidence when searching for those who have been lost and need to be found. The researchers (A/Prof Sieu Khuu, Dr Vanessa Honson and Dr Juno Kim) met with officials of the area command and will continue to engage through experimental research that will hopefully inform best practice in coordinating searches to optomise the likelihood of their success in future. Photo credit: Dr Juno Kim

06.01.2022 Thank you Centre for Eye Health for hosting our students!

05.01.2022 Our student led conference is in full swing and we are delighted to be supported by so many friends of SOVS. Our lunchtime plenary session round table discussion is focussing on topics within the eye and vision field, including issues such as Medicare and the impact of COVID-19 #seeingbeyond2020 . .... Optometry NSW / ACT UNSW Optometry and Vision Science Student Society See more

04.01.2022 Well done to Alumni Austin Tang and Bregan Soh who have had their final year SOVS research project published - Social Media Marketing in Practice: Evidence for Success: https://www.mivision.com.au//social-media-marketing-in-pr/ #dryeye #defydryeye

03.01.2022 Congrats to Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Shyam Tummanapalli who has been recognised with a Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD Theses "Evaluation of corneal nerves & tear neuromediators in diabetic peripheral neuropathy". Awesome work Shyam

03.01.2022 REGISTRATIONS FOR THE UNSW SOVS STUDENT CONFERENCE (USSC) IS NOW OPEN Its open to all UNSW Optometry and Vision Science students. Sign up for the conference now! https://forms.gle/cfcz4TBdmPSJYiiK7... #SeeingBeyond2020 . UNSW Optometry and Vision Science Student Society

03.01.2022 Come along and find out about the career pathways in optometry with our speakers: Lauren, Sephora and Rosalie as they share their unique experiences. Register now! https://forms.gle/cfcz4TBdmPSJYiiK7 #SeeingBeyond2020

03.01.2022 Introducing Lee Baumwol, Optometrist at Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UNSW Optometry and Vision Science. We thank Lee for his t...ime during T2 where he lectured on patient management in the context of the public hospital system with final year students during interactive online sessions. #onlinelearning #futureoptometrists . . UNSW Optometry and Vision Science Student Society See more

02.01.2022 Early Career Researcher of the Month: Dr Jerome Ozkan has also been involved in research not related to the human eye. He has assisted with data analysis of research which looked at the bacteria in blow samples from humpback whales and is currently working on a project looking at contamination of implanted pacemakers.

01.01.2022 A line of research pursued by early career researcher Dr Simin Masoudi and Prof. Mark Willcox and a number of other colleagues is related to how the first six months of lens wear affect multiple factors on the surface of the eye. For more information on Simin's research see here: https://www.science.unsw.edu.au/our-people/simin-masoudi

01.01.2022 Attention current UNSW SOVS students: Attend a workshop or two to explore facets of optometry and vision science that are not covered by the schools curriculum. Registrations close today, Wednesday 2 September at 5pm! Dont miss out! https://forms.gle/cfcz4TBdmPSJYiiK7 Theres only two days till the conference. #SeeingBeyond2020