2025 Optometry Educational Dinner
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12 March 2025 starting 8:30 am
What?
TOPIC: A therapeutic update on the ocular and systemic treatment of diabetes.
Our Presenter – Professor Christopher Layton:
Professor Christopher Layton (Dr Chris) is a private Clinical Ophthalmologist, Rhodes Scholar and a national leader in innovative ophthalmology. His expertise is in macular disease, lens surgery and minimally invasive glaucoma interventions. He completed optometry at QUT, ophthalmology in Queensland, Oxford and London, subspecialty training in retinal disease at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and holds a PhD in diabetic retinopathy from Oxford University. Professor Layton is the founding director of the LVF Ophthalmology Research Centre. He is also CEO of Ocugene, a Queensland based biotech start-up which is commercialising his gene therapy technology targeting macular degeneration, uveitis and choroidal melanoma.
Our Presenter – Professor Christopher Layton:
Professor Christopher Layton (Dr Chris) is a private Clinical Ophthalmologist, Rhodes Scholar and a national leader in innovative ophthalmology. His expertise is in macular disease, lens surgery and minimally invasive glaucoma interventions. He completed optometry at QUT, ophthalmology in Queensland, Oxford and London, subspecialty training in retinal disease at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and holds a PhD in diabetic retinopathy from Oxford University. Professor Layton is the founding director of the LVF Ophthalmology Research Centre. He is also CEO of Ocugene, a Queensland based biotech start-up which is commercialising his gene therapy technology targeting macular degeneration, uveitis and choroidal melanoma.
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