Last weekend, our team had the privilege of attending the Specsavers Clinical Conference in Melbourne. The two-day ophthalmology-led event brought together hundreds of industry leaders, practitioners and students for thought-provoking talks, interactive Q&A sessions and insightful networking opportunities.
Held at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne, the conference’s program covered a range of topics, from more technical discussions about specific conditions, to practical guidance on better patient care and communication. Vision Australia’s own National Social Support and Wellbeing lead, Debbie Loke, also took part in an engaging “fringe talk” with Neeta Oakley from Diabetes Australia and Duchesne Markham from Specsavers about providing excellent patient care beyond the test room.
Additionally, our team manned booth 21 for both days of the conference, with our low vision experts on hand to demo a selection of our Vision Store products and assistive tech.
Vison Australia team members speak to attendees at the Specsavers Clinical Conference in Melbourne.
We also helped attendees to try out our See Like Me headsets, which simulates a variety of common eye conditions, including macular degeneration and glaucoma. This headset proved to be a hit at the conference, with many attendees commenting that it gave them a very unique insight into the realities their patients face.
Plus, we brought along a member of the next generation of Seeing Eye Dogs. This pup was naturally a very popular attraction, as they not only provided some very cute photo ops, but also offered our team members the chance to educate attendees on the realities of the Seeing Eye Dogs program.
We’d like to extend a huge thank you to Specsavers for having us at the conference. This was an invaluable opportunity not only to promote Vision Australia’s services and programs, but to educate the many optometrists in attendance about the importance of referring their low vision patients to us as early as possible.
