Optometry educational dinner | Glaucoma: a surgical disease.

Name: Optometry educational dinner | Glaucoma: a surgical disease.
Start: 2024-08-07T18:30:00+10:00
Location: The Calile Hotel

Schedule

Wed Aug 07 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

The Calile Hotel | Fortitude Valley, QL

The Optometry Educational Dinner Updates in Primary Eyecare is brought to you by the Layton Vision Foundation (LVF) and the LVF Ophthalmology Research Centre.
With all our educational dinners, we go through the rigorous process of getting the CPD Activity approved for OA Institute of Excellence Quality Assurance by Optometry Australia for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points that includes clinical, therapeutic and interactive points.
Please note the Registration Desk will be open from 6.30pm with official proceedings set to commence at 7pm. We plan to wrap up and close by 9pm.
The Topic:
Glaucoma: a surgical disease. Optometric diagnosis and management in the era of the LiGHT trial
Our Presenter - Professor Christopher Layton:
Professor Christopher Layton (Dr Chris) is a private Clinical Ophthalmologist, Rhodes Scholar and a national leader in innovative ophthalmology. His expertise is in macular disease, lens surgery and minimally invasive glaucoma interventions. He completed optometry at QUT, ophthalmology in Queensland, Oxford and London, subspecialty training in retinal disease at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and holds a PhD in diabetic retinopathy from Oxford University. Professor Layton is a Rhodes Scholar and founding director of the LVF Ophthalmology Research Centre. He is also CEO of Ocugene, a Queensland based biotech start-up which is commercialising his gene therapy technology targeting macular degeneration, uveitis and choroidal melanoma.