The 71st Annual Scientific Conference, hosted by Orthoptics Australia, will be held in Brisbane at the Convention Centre from 23 to 26 November, alongside the 2014 RANZCO Congress.
According to the organisers, the scientific program aims to explore all aspects of advancing research, upgrading practice, and improving participation. Delegates will leave armed with new scientific skills and clinical knowledge.
The 71st Annual Scientific Conference will be opened by Bruce Wolfe, managing director of Conrad Gargett since 1998 and project director / project architect of many facilities for universities, the health sector and defence.
Orthoptist Patricia Dunlop, the first ever recipient of the Maddox Prize which is awarded to the top student of the British Orthoptic Society, will deliver the Patricia Lance Lecture. Ms. Dunlop is highly revered, having received the Charles Leonard Gimblett Memorial Prize for dyslexia research in 1975, a Demonstrator’s Certificate to add to her Orthoptic Diploma in 1978 and being appointed Orthoptics Australia president from 1987-8. She developed the ‘Dunlop Test’ in the management of strabismus and amblyopia which was widely used in the UK and Australia in the 1970s.
Also scheduled for the conference is the Orthoptics Australia AGM on Monday 24 October, a Bayer breakfast, and the conference dinner at the Queensland Art Gallery Museum, on Tuesday 25 November and on the final day, Wednesday 26 November, Orthoptics Australia will host its annual awards ceremony.
For information visit www.orthoptics2014.com.au
