Scientia Professor, School of Optometry and Vision Science at @UNSW. Expertise in epidemiology and research in corneal infection, dry eye, CL related diseases
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined September 2017
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So proud of @RabiaMobeen4 and @fatimai71712524 - congratulations on your sensational presentations at #bcla2023, #Manchester @UNSWoptomvsci
Such great news to hear about the extension to this flagship program.
The extended UNSW Sydney Scientia Program will support an additional 48 early- to mid-career researchers over the next three years.
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Thank you to @SharonBentley and @IsabelleJalbert as co-editors of this Special Edition of Clinical and Experimental Optometry Public health and Indigenous eye health: more work to be done in optometry tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Congrats @RajendraGyawali and team from @UNSWoptomvsci on this recent paper reporting on enhancing eyecare delivery in Australia. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Great work @GauriShrestha
Very proud of this fine piece of work by @GaurishShrestha showing the importance of energy pathway #metabolites in #keratitis. Just in time for #ISER2023 @UNSWoptomvsci @iserworld
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Great news and thanks to those who made this happen.
📣 UNSW #PhD / HDR candidates, we've heard you...
To help ease cost-of-living pressures, we'll be increasing stipends for HDR scholarships to $35,000 in 2023 and $37,684 in 2024.
The increase will apply to all new and current scholarship holders with scholarships under $35k. 👇
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Great to see this paper showing the importance of second eye cataract surgery in falls prevention published in MJA. @KeayLisa @pesudovs @JessHuangVision
Timely access to cataract surgery, for both eyes, is critical to optimizing vision and reducing risk of injury from falls - new paper out this week doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51611 @pesudovs @FionaJStapleton @JessHuangVision @KeayLisa @annapalagyi @dr_krisdr @TerryHoKC @georgeinstitute
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Thanks #ARVO2022. Denver done and dusted. Wonderful to be able to attend overseas conference again. @toomey_melinda @tianni Jia @UNSWoptomvsci
Congratulations Minh on the publication of this review paper on Meibomian gland cell culture in @OcularSurface journal. @UNSWoptomvsci @UNSWMedicine authors.elsevier.com/c/1eBNR…
Amazing postgraduate students. You are such a credit to the School and UNSW.
Congrats to the following students who recevied UNSW ARC Postgraduate Council Student of the Year Awards yesterday: Azadeh Tavakkolisab, Binod Rayamajhee, Rajendra Gyawali, Fatima Iqbal and Ngozi-Chidi. So proud!
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Congrats @Memoona_Arshad on publishing her paper on the impact of water on microbial contamination of contact lens cases @nicole_carnt @UNSWoptomvsci
Effect of Water Exposure on Contact Lens Storage Case... : Optometry and Vision Science journals.lww.com/optvissci/A…
Thanks to @Duaharminder and @OcularSurface for the opportunity to contribute to this special edition on infectious keratitis. Home authors.elsevier.com/a/1dl5B…
This is a very well conducted study to describe interventions that really work. Important reading for institutions!!
Advancing women in healthcare leadership: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of multi-sector evidence on organisational interventions thelancet.com/journals/eclin…
Lovely to see this paper on corneal infection in daily disposable contact lenses wearers from 2017, generating interest. In the top 10% most cited @PLOSONE papers published in 2017! altmetric.com/details/247799… #PLOSTopCited
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Celebrating the Women in STEM champions @UNSWScience. Inspiring to hear of the amazing achievements of these Alumni. @LNivisonSmith and @NChidiEgboka
Congratulations @mahjabeenkhan58 @UNSWMedicine Prizes Ceremony for the Brian Kirby Prize for Research Excellence in Optometry. Very well deserved!!
Congrats to Kerryn Hart for leading this effort to update the infection control guidelines. Perfect timing. @nicole_carnt @UNSWoptomvsci @OptometryAus Optometry Australia’s infection control guidelines 2020 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Here is our contribution to this international consensus exercise. Thanks to @_BCLA for this initiative and James Wolffsohn and @philmor for their leadership. CLEAR- Contact lens complications - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Fantastic effort and wonderful to see this amazing resource published. Congrats to all those involved.
The @_BCLA CLEAR reports are:
11 papers which took
21 months comprising
302 pages written by
102 authors based in
16 countries including
10 committee chairs under
1 organisation supported by
2 sponsors making up
1 full issue
of CLAE
Open Access!
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