The Cornea and Contact Lens Society of Australia is hosting a face-to-face evening dinner event on keratoconus – discussing what’s new, what to watch for, and how to manage it with eye drops and contact lenses.
Speakers for the event, which will be endorsed for therapeutic interactive points are:
- Dr Alison Chiu, a Fellowship trained ophthalmologist from Sydney, who specialises in lens and laser based refractive surgeries and complex cataract surgery, working in busy public and private practice.
- Dr Tanya Trinh, a world renowned refractive, corneal, and cataract surgeon based in Sydney. She is triple fellowship qualified – a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, the World College of Refractive Surgery and Vision Sciences, and the European Board of Ophthalmology in Cornea and Refractive Surgery.
a face-to-face evening dinner event on keratoconus – discussing what’s new, what to watch for, and how to manage it with eye drops and contact lenses
Dr Chiu’s presentation on how best to manage patients with keratoconus will cover surgical options and new treatments for keratoconus and pellucid marginal degeneration; pre op and post op therapeutic management of keratoconic patients; corneal allogenic intrastromal ring segments (CAIRS) and its relevance to contact lens fitting; implantable contact lenses, and visual rehabilitation for dry eyes and ocular surface disease, as well as contact lens intolerant patients.
Dr Trinh’s presentation will cover tips, tricks and pitfalls of keratoconus management, including: what can go wrong and what to do about it; therapeutic management of complications; CAIRS; and topography-guided photorefractive keratectomy (TG-PRK) combined with corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) used to treat keratoconus.
Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025
Time: 6.00–9.15pm
Where: Rydges Darling Square, 72 Liverpool St, Sydney NSW 2000
For registration details visit: cclsa.org.au/_events.registration/step1/eventid/34386.
