Myopia Moments: Navigating Paediatric Myopia Care in New Zealand

Myopia Management is the standard of care for paediatric myopia. In New Zealand, we are fortunate to have a range of options for myopia management. Join us for an exclusive CCLS webinar featuring renowned experts in the field, optometrists Elisha Dudson and Jagrut Lallu and Ophthalmologist, Dr. Rasha Altaie.

From Optical Options, Contact Lenses, Atropine Therapy, Red Light Therapy, Axial Length Considerations and Case Studies - this presentation will give you a chance to hear current considerations for managing myopia in New Zealand.

Free for CCLS NZ Members.

$15 for non-members.

Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your knowledge and skills in paediatric myopia care

New Zealand Optometry CPD Points Pending.

Featuring Eleisha Dudson, Jagrut Lallu and Dr Rasha Altaie

Join CCLS NZ and Colleagues from around New Zealand and Australia to get an understanding of the impact of Cosmetic Products on Ocular Surface Health and comfortable contact lens wear.

Free for CCLS NZ and CCLSA Members. $15 for non-members. New Zealand Optometry CPD Points Pending.

Eye cosmetics comprise a diverse array of products. There are many reasons our patients choose to use cosmetics… and there are also many reasons these products can impact ocular surface health and comfortable contact lens wear.

This CCLS webinar will cover how Cosmetics Impact the Ocular Surface, how we can educate our patients, and alternatives we can recommend for better eye health.

Attendees will also get access to a new CCLS Patient Education Resource to make the discussion around the Cosmetics easier.

Beauty affects the eye of the beholdeR - Dr Rachna Murthy and Dr Jonathan Roos.

Lifestyle choices impact eye health. The use of cosmetics and aesthetic procedures contribute to ocular surface disease (OSD) and ironically also to periocular ageing. What our patients do when they leave our clinic can compromise our treatments and their eye and general health. We will discuss the findings of the recently published TFOS – A lifestyle epidemic, cosmetics subcommittee report, that we have contributed to. As consumers and patients become more aware of ‘safe beauty’, eye care specialists need to be informed of the latest findings and how we can mitigate risk.

Dr Rachna Murthy - BSc(Hons) MB BS FRCOphth, Ophthalmologist, Oculoplastic & Reconstructive Surgeon

Miss Rachna Murthy is a London & Cambridge-based Consultant Ophthalmologist, Aesthetic, Oculoplastic & Reconstructive Surgeon.

Prior to entering full time private practice, she led the Cambridge University Hospitals Thyroid Eye Disease Service providing quaternary oculoplastic care for the East of England region. Her service has been internationally recognised and she enjoys faculty status at numerous international meetings. Miss Murthy is an experienced surgical trainer not just in the NHS and for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists but also in the private sector where her academic safety work with dermal fillers and technical skills has led to her appointment as faculty of the Allergan Medical Institute. As the lead periocular skin cancer clinician for Ipswich, she has also helped to pioneer innovative surgical approaches resulting in reduced patient attendance and cancer recurrence with improved cosmetic outcomes. She is a member of the British Oculoplastic Surgical Society, American & the European Society of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgeons and sits on the board of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Ophthalmology section.

Her publications have won international prizes, are widely quoted and she has been appointed to the editorial board of PMFA journal. Prior to her decade of consultant experience, her own post-residency fellowship training was at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Craniofacial Unit at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, both in London as well as the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, in Melbourne, Australia.

Prof Jonathan Roos - MB BChir MA PhD(Cantab) FRCOphth FEBO, Ophthalmologist, Oculoplastic & Reconstructive Surgeon

Jonathan is a Cambridge, Harvard & Moorfields-educated consultant eyelid surgeon specialising in cosmetic eyelid surgery, periocular cancer, orbital pathology as well as non-surgical aesthetic facial rejuvenation. Jonathan’s research and clinical care has garnered prizes from scientific societies and organisations in aesthetics, oculplastic surgery, neurology and thyroid eye disease. He is frequently asked to speak at major scientific congresses including the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and as external Professor for the Mario Negri Institute’s Pharmaceutical Masters Programme in Bergamo. Dr Roos has published in excess of 50 papers including in leading journals such as the BMJ, Lancet and NEJM, and contributes chapters to textbooks on oculoplastic surgery, including on nasolacrimal duct obstructions, aesthetic management of Thyroid eye disease and the management of dermal filler complications. His research has won numerous prizes including from the American Society for Hematology, the American Neurological Association, the International Thyroid Eye Disease Society and the British Oculoplastic Surgical Society amongst others.

Putting it into Practice - Amy Gallant Sullivan

The cosmetics products that we rub, pour, sprinkle, dab or spray onto our face can mess with our vision. While creating the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society with Dr. David A. Sullivan, Amy wondered about the correlation between cosmetics use and dry eye. She asked herself if there was a coincidence that women are 2x more likely than men to suffer from dry eye disease … and women use 2x times more cosmetics daily than men?

Amy’s ponderings led to the discovery of the unmet need for eye-safe cosmetics, for both woman and men. Following 15+ years of research, a collaboration with three laboratories and a powerful team of world-renowned eye health experts, Amy created Eyes Are The Story – the world's first clinically-proven products that were formulated specifically for sensitive eyes and skin, dry eyes, and contact lens wearers.

Launched in 2020 for sale via eyecare professionals in the United States, the Eyes Are The Story products are endorsed by the eyecare community worldwide and are now sold by eyecare professionals in seven countries.

Amy Gallant Sullivan, BS, CEO & Founder ÈSSIRI Labs, Creator of Èyes Are The Story

Two decades of entrenchment in the ocular surface space culminate in the formation of Boston-based biobeauty startup ÈSSIRI Labs, the creators of ÈYES ARE THE STORY Optocosmetics. Founder Amy Gallant Sullivan wields her leadership role at the Tearfilm & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS)—a global initiative dedicated to the cross-pollination of biotech, life sciences and technology—to embark on an eye health revolution.

Amy grew up steeped in science, medicine and the discussion of dry eye. Her father, Dr. David A. Sullivan, is a world-renowned PhD scientist whose life's research focuses on sex, hormones and the eye, and particularly how this triad relates to Dry Eye Disease. During 'shoptalk' with her dad—a conversation she vividly recalls fifteen years ago in Paris' Place Saint Michel—Amy had an 'aha' moment and dove into researching the correlation between cosmetics and dry eye.

Today she continues this mission with campaigns aimed at educating women of the dangers of toxic beauty. In 2016, she founded Dry Eye Diva, a profession-bridging eyecare collab educating clinicians and patients. When not lobbying the U.S. Congress on Dry Eye Disease, Amy illuminates global audiences on an array of eye wellness topics. Prior to launching TFOS, Amy worked in international banking and e-commerce, honing her business and branding acumen, while developing global messaging platforms for Europe, Asia-Pacific & the Americas. In 2012, she co-founded the Italian & International Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums, a non-profit that promotes art-access with multi-sensory exhibits for the blind and visually impaired. Amy currently splits her time between Boston and London.

Question & Answer Session

CCLS Conference is back for 2023 in our one day format.

What can you expect? A range of local speakers as well as four insightful and informative presentations from Keynote Speaker Lachlan Hoy – Keratoconus, Contact lens innovation for the irregular eye, Orthokeratology, Cornea and Contact Lens Buttons (Corneal Grafts). In case you haven’t heard about Lachlan:

Lachlan is an Optometrist and contact lens innovator based in Adelaide, Australia. Lachlan graduated from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2007 with Honours and the Don Noack award for excellence in contact lenses. He has also completed Ocular Therapeutics training at the University of Melbourne and was awarded fellowships with the Cornea and Contact Lens Society and the International Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control. Lachlan is an author of a textbook chapter on keratoconus, and is a director and founder of three eye care companies. Lachlan’s professional interests are in technology of metrology of the eye, and software-based design and manufacture of bespoke contact lenses of all shapes and sizes.