Welcome to People on the move – August 2024, Insight’s monthly bulletin to keep the Australian ophthalmic sector updated on new appointments and personnel changes.
If you’d like to tell the market about a new person in your company, practice, or clinic, please send the person’s name, position, image and a short description about their role to editor Myles Hume for consideration at myles.hume@primecreative.com.au.
Will Robertson – OptiMed
OptiMed, part of EssilorLuxottica and a leading supplier of diagnostic instruments, pharmaceuticals, dry eye solutions and ancillary items for eyecare professionals, has appointed “highly-experienced industry maverick” Will Robertson to its sales team. Well known in the industry as a successful sales and relationship professional he brings “strong technical grounding and a tremendous amount of knowledge in ophthalmic instruments”. With over 23 years’ experience, his practice ‘know how’ and ‘can do’ attitude adds a further layer of customer relationship experience to the growing group synergies, OptiMed said.
Prof Jason Cheng – Sight For All
Dr Jason Cheng has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Sight For All. He is a consultant ophthalmologist at Sydney Eye Hospital and Liverpool Hospital in Sydney. He has committee appointments at the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Ophthalmology (RANZCO), Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO), Vision Eye Institute and the Pacific Eye Institute. As a Glaucoma specialist, Dr Cheng is part of the Sight For All Glaucoma Visionary team, having taught in Cambodia in 2023.
Assoc Prof Lauren Ayton – Centre for Eye Research Australia
Associate Professor Lauren Ayton has joined the CERA executive team. She is known as a champion for innovation in vision research and her passion for improving the lives of people living with vision loss and blindness. Assoc Prof Ayton takes on this new role alongside her current senior positions at CERA and the University of Melbourne, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences while continuing engagements with patient advocacy, industry and eye care professional groups.
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