SPEAKERS MARK ROTH SIMON CHEN Ophthalmologist specialising in vitreoretinal surgery, intravitreal anti-vegf therapy and laser cataract surgery. He is a principal investigator for numerous international clinical trials of novel treatments for retinal disease. He trained in the teaching hospitals of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, UK and completed advanced surgical retinal fellowships at the Oxford Eye Hospital and Lions Eye Institute. He practices at Vision Eye Institute clinics in Bondi Junction, Chatswood, Drummoyne and Hurstville. Associate Professor Mark Roth is a clinical optometrist with a degree in pharmacology. Apart from consulting in private practice and teaching at the University of Melbourne, he lectures extensively in Australia and overseas in the area of ocular therapeutics. Mark currently holds a wide variety of positions related to ocular therapeutics education and advocacy. He is also the clinical editor of the "Optometry Pharma" publication. Mark's main diversions outside of optometry include coffee, pinot noir, cooking, cycling and world football. STEPHEN LESLIE JOANNE WOOD Joanne Wood is a Professor in the School of Optometry and Vision Science at QUT and has research expertise spanning a number of key areas. Joanne graduated with first class honours in Optometry from Aston University, UK and spent two years in optometric practice before returning to Aston University to complete a PhD in automated visual field investigation. Her PhD was followed by a Post Doctoral fellowship in clinical psychophysics at Oxford University. She then joined the School of Optometry at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia in 1989 as a Post Doctoral Fellow and currently holds the position of Professor in the School. Joanne has an international reputation for her investigations of the relationship between vision, ageing and driving performance and has made a significant contribution to understanding how visual impairment affects driving performance, identifying risk factors for unsafe older drivers and on the factors affecting pedestrian visibility at night-time. Stephen is an ophthalmic medicines prescriber who provides comprehensive adult & children s behavioural optometric care in Perth. He also provides specialised care of children with learning - related vision difficulties, strabismus and amblyopia, special needs children, and vision problems in adults and children subsequent to acquired brain injuries following stroke or head trauma, and issues such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinsons disease. He provided vision care for athletes and officials as a volunteer optometrist in the eye clinic at the athletes village, Sydney 2000 Olympics, and 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, and for many years was a sports vision consultant to the Australian Institute of Sports men s and women s hockey squads. He is a Life Member of OAA (WA) and was National President of the Association from 1991-1992. LAUREN AYTON DENIS WAKEFIELD Currently is the Clinical Program Leader of the Bionic Vision Australia consortium, which is working to develop a retinal prosthesis to restore vision to people who have been blinded by retinal degenerative disease. Her research interests are in the areas of retinal disease (specifically age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa), low vision assessment and vision restoration. Dr Ayton spent several months working at Harvard University in 2015 on the development and leadership of an International Task Force to develop standards for the measurement and reporting of outcomes in vision restoration trials, with the support of a Hugh Rogers Medical Research Fellowship. Professor Wakefield is the Associate Dean (Strategy and External Relations) in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales and the Head of the Ocular Immunology Research Laboratory in the Centre for Infection and Inflammation. Professor Wakefield is a Director of Immunology and Immunopathology for the SE Sydney Area Health Service. He is a clinical immunologist whose major interest is in the pathogenesis of inflammatory eye disease, in particular the role of micro organisms and genetic factors in cause of uveitis and scleritis. His major research interests include immune abnormalities in autoimmune disease, allergy, inflammatory eye disease and the pathogenesis of post infection fatigue syndromes. He has over 300 peer reviewed publications, is on several editorial boards and was a longstanding immunology editor of the Australia/ New Zealand Journal of Medicine. JOHN MALES MICHAEL YAPP Dr John Males, principal surgeon at Sydney Cornea Clinic, is a leader in laser vision correction, cataract surgery, corneal transplantation including DSEK, DSAEK and DALK, keratoconus treatments including collagen cross linking, corneal rings (Kerarings and Intacs), phakic intraocular lenses, and anterior segment reconstruction. John is a consultant ophthalmologist at Sydney Eye Hospital, St Vincent's Public and St Vincent's Private Hospitals, Concord Hospital and Macquarie University Hospital. MICHAEL CHILOV Retina and macula subspecialist with a particular interest in diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. After initially qualifying as an optometrist, he went on to complete ophthalmology training in Sydney and advanced retinal fellowship training in the UK. Michael has been involved in a number of clinical trials investigating new treatments for retinal disease. He holds a public teaching hospital appointment at Concord Hospital as well as working in private practice in Sydney. KENNETH HO Currently Chief Staff Optometrist at Centre for Eye Health. Michael obtained his Bachelor and Master of Optometry degrees and Graduate Certificate in Ocular Therapeutics from UNSW. He has worked in rural private practice and as a locum both in Australia and the UK. Other previous roles include being a full time staff optometrist at UNSW, coordinating Luxottica's charity program and working with corneal and refractive specialist ophthalmologists. CLAIRE FRASER Ophthalmologist specialising in neuro-ophthalmology and strabismus who is a consultant VMO at Sydney Eye and St Vincent s Hospitals, Associate Professor of Neuroophthalmology and Ophthalmic Education at University of Sydney and in private practice. She completed her ophthalmic training at Sydney Eye Hospital with neuro-ophthalmology training at Moorfields Eye Hospital and National Hospital for Neurology, London, and completed a fellowship at Emory Eye Centre, Atlanta, USA. Dr Ho is a Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist with clinical and research interests in Diabetes, Obesity and General Endocrinology. His PhD studies involved researching on the role of iron chelation for treatment of glucose, lipids and obesity, components of the Metabolic Syndrome. He had previously received a young researcher award from the Endocrine Society of Australia in 2009 for his research. JENNY LONG Jennifer Long works as an optometrist in private practice in Lithgow, NSW, and is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW, where she teaches Environmental Optometry, Clinical Examination of Colour Vision, and Radiometry, Photometry and Colorimetry to undergraduate optometry students. Jennifer is also a Certified Professional Ergonomist and is selfemployed providing ergonomics consultancy services to industry.