The national board elected Ms Gifford as president on 21 Novber, succeeding Mr Andrew Harris who had completed his second three-year term (2007-2010, 2011-2014).
Ms Gifford is the sole owner of a practice in Brisbane’s CBD and has interests in contact lenses, binocular vision, paediatrics and myopia control.
She graduated from Queensland University of Technology in 2003 with first-class honours and a University Medal and joined the practice in 2005, completed Queensland University of Technology’s Graduate Certificate of Ocular Therapeutics in 2006, and took over the practice in July 2007.
She became a director of Optometry Queensland/Northern Territory in 2005 and was elected vice-president in 2009, before becoming president for a two-year term from 2010 to 2012.
She joined Optometry Australia’s national board as a director in 2010 and was elected national vice-president in 2013.
An award-winning clinical supervisor and visiting lecturer at QUT, she has written 21 peer-reviewed and professional publications, and presented more than 50 lectures at conferences in Australia, New Zealand, England and the United States.
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