What does a career in optometry look like?
Optometrists provide a wide range of services including testing vision, prescribing glasses and contact lenses, assessing and treating vision problems and managing complex eye conditions.
As an accredited optometrist, you’ll work with patients young and old, undertaking routine eye tests, diagnosing conditions such as macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma, and treating eye and vision health issues such as acute infections and inflammation, diagnosing and referring conditions that need ophthalmological care such as retinal tears, detachments, and the effects of diabetes.
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Academic Lead: Associate Professor Jason Booth
Jason joined Flinders in 2014 and has helped maintain the authenticity of the work integrated learning experiences for students both on and off campus to ensure they are taught clinical diagnostic thinking skills.
Jason’s first role as an optometry graduate was in Broken Hill. He has since worked in community practice in many locations over the years.
Senior Lecturer: Dr Paul Constable
Paul studied Optometry at the University of Melbourne before moving to London in 2001 where he worked as an optometrist and lived in Toulouse.
He completed a PhD at City University London, where he became a lecturer in optometry at City University of London between 2009 and 2014 and Senior Lecturer in 2015. Aside from his teaching role, Paul is also a researcher within our Caring Futures Institute. Recently, he has developed a new eye scan that could identify autism in children years earlier than currently possible.
Course Coordinator: Dr Ranjay Chakraborty
Ranjay graduated in Optometry from the Elite School of Optometry, Chennai, India in 2006. After working as an optometrist for three years in India, he joined the PhD program in Vision Science at the Queensland University of Technology. Ranjay’s PhD was one of the first investigations to bridge the work on daily rhythms of the eye structures and myopia (or short-sightedness) development in animal models to human eyes, and was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2013. Following the PhD, he did 3.5 years of postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Ophthalmology at Emory University in Atlanta, USA.
Placement Education Coordinator: Dr Jeremiah Lim
Jeremiah was an Optometrist in Singapore in 2005 where he worked in private and public practice. He graduated from Melbourne University in 2009 with distinction and has since practised across more than 50 locations across Victoria. Under a strategic plan by the Melbourne Neuroscience Institute, Jeremiah was offered the prestigious STRAPA award aimed at attracting clinicians into research. At the Melbourne brain centre, he undertook pioneering work in the field of ocular biomarkers during his PhD candidature. His research attracted international attention and he was awarded the Eberhard Dodt Award in 2016 for his contribution to retinal electrophysiology in Alzheimer’s disease. His doctoral thesis was accepted in 2018 by the University of Melbourne. While there, Jeremiah was also teaching in the Doctor of Optometry program.
Student Experience Coordinator: Dr Mallika Prem Senthil
Mallika is an ophthalmologist with extensive clinical, teaching and research experience in both universities and health sectors. She worked as a consultant ophthalmologist in India between 2000 and 2004 and then moved to Malaysia, joining the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Malaysia Sarawak as a Senior Lecturer as well as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Sarawak General Hospital.
Over nine years in Malaysia, Mallika achieved numerous academic and professional service excellence awards. She also embarked on various clinical and academic research projects.
In 2014, she was invited to undertake a doctoral study at Flinders and was offered two prestigious Australian scholarships.
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