Contributors

Victor has completed ophthalmology training in the UK. He is currently undertaking the Corneal Fellowship at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He has an interest in cornea, glaucoma and overseas ophthalmology.  After living in Tanzania for three years he completed a PhD on the pathogenesis of trachomatous scarring with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, resulting in several high profile publications. Victor is involved with several ongoing trachoma studies, as well as research on the use of in vivo confocal microscopy.

Dr Tom Moloney is a Brisbane Retina Surgeon specialising in retinal, macular diseases and vitreoretinal surgery.

Dr Moloney studied Medicine at the University of Queensland then completed specialist ophthalmology training in Queensland. He then undertook the Medical Retina and Uveitis Fellowship at the prestigious Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and subsequently returned to Brisbane to complete the Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellowship at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. He was awarded the RANZCO Topham Scholarship to support his fellowship training in the United Kingdom.

Dr Tanya Karaconji BMedSci (Hons1) MBBS MMed (OphthalSc) FRANZCO is a glaucoma specialist, cataract surgeon and general ophthalmologist.

Professor Robert Casson MB,BS (Hons), M.Biostatistics, DPhil, FRANZCO is the Head of the Discipline of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Adelaide University. He is an internationally recognized ophthalmic clinician/scientist with special interests in glaucoma, retinal cell biology, neuroprotection, ophthalmic epidemiology and translational ophthalmic research.

Professor Ravi Thomas is a Glaucoma specialist at Queensland Eye Institute, Brisbane, Queensland.. He has also trained in Cataracts, Paediatric Ophthalmology and Clinical Epidemiology. He is a founding member and ex-president of the Glaucoma Society of India, where he did most of his training and early research. Dr Thomas was formerly the president of The International Society of Geographical and Epidemiological Ophthalmology (ISGEO) and advisor to several international non-governmental agencies working in eye health.

Professor Peter Shah is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon and Supra-Regional Glaucoma Specialist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. He is also a Visiting Professor to the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology). He is Honorary Professor of Glaucoma at the Centre for Health and Social Care Improvement at the University of Wolverhampton.

Dr Mark Loane specialises in glaucoma, cataract surgery and general ophthalmology. He practices out of the Vision Eye Institute in Brisbane, Queensland.

Background

Lauren graduated from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2011 with First Class Honours. She has worked in private general and specialty optometrist practices in Brisbane and has worked as a clinical optometrist at City Eye Centre in Brisbane. She has been a Clinical Supervisor position at QUT in which she mentors and teaches optometry students. Lauren’s particular areas of optometric interest include specialty contact lens fitting for refractive and therapeutic purposes, and ocular pathology and disease management.

Dr Lance Liu graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1992 before completing his ophthalmology training at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (Melbourne, Australia). He then undertook fellowship training in Glaucoma at Moorfields Eye Hospital (London, UK), the National University of Singapore (Singapore) and the Wills Eye Hospital (Philadelphia, USA). Currently, he works in private practice in Preston and Glenroy (Melbourne, Australia) as well as a Glaucoma Consultant at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (Melbourne, Australia).

Ken Donald AO was a member of the Wallabies from 1957-60, during which time he played in ten Test matches. He studied medicine at UQ simultaneously and graduated MB BS in 1962 and in 1973 was awarded a PhD in immunology. He initially worked as a pathologist, which included appointments as Director of Pathology at Royal Brisbane Hospital and Professor of Anatomical Pathology at University of Newcastle. His rugby interests continued and from 1979-81 he was manager of the Australian rugby team.

Mr Joe Abbott BMedSci BMBS FRCOphth is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon and clinical lead at Birmingham Children's Hospital, United Kingdom. He graduated from Nottingham Medical School and trained in the West Midlands before undertaking fellowships training at Birmingham Children's Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. He is one of very few surgeons with dual fellowships in paediatric ophthalmology and glaucoma. His interests include the childhood glaucomas, paediatric cataract, ocular trauma and cranio-facial disorders.

Dr. John Horsburgh completed a Bachelors of Arts and Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery degree at the University of Queensland. He worked at The Prince Charles Hospital as a resident and is currently Visiting Clinical and Research Fellow at the Birmingham Institute for Glaucoma Research and Honorary Registrar at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Guys' and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.