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Georgia Hall

Georgia Hall

Ambassador to the Victoria Cohen Eye Cancer Charitable Trust – Australasia Georgia Hall was diagnosed and treated for choroidal melanoma in 2021 at Sydney Eye Hospital when she was 31 years old. She successfully received eye sparing plaque radiation therapy and now follows a rigorous scanning...

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Ralf Toenjes

Ralf Toenjes

Strengthening Eye Health through Collaboration for Philanthropic Assistance to Vulnerable Populations Instituto Suel Abujamra, in collaboration with Renovatio, Instituto Verter, and GoodVision South America, has formed a strategic alliance called Juntos pela Visão (“United for Vision”). Over the...

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Angela Smith

Angela Smith

Volunteer to Career Attracting and retaining a skilled workforce is a key challenge facing not just ophthalmology, but also the wider global health sector. The enormous pressure on existing staff has only intensified in recent years. Moorfields have been using volunteers to support paid staff...

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Mandeep Singh

Mandeep Singh

Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Trials for Regenerative Medicine At a time when the presses are abuzz with the possibilities of AI, this talk provides a vision for what ma be possible if we combine AI technology with cutting edge diagnostics now under development and clinical trial design...

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Toby Pontifex

Toby Pontifex

Instruments outside of theatre- A Culture Change Work commenced in 2018 at the Eye and Ear Hospital to progress the implementation of AS/NZS 4187: Reprocessing of reusable medical devices in health service organisations, and to meet the mandatory requirements of Standard 3 – Preventing and...

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Yu Ling Elizabeth Phua

Yu Ling Elizabeth Phua

Operating Theatre Game-based Pre-training in enhancing learning experience, knowledge and self-efficacy scores for novice nurses Learning curve of novice nurses in the operating theatre are steep and nurses usually go through extensive training to be a competent peri-operative nurse. Innovation...

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Danielle Morgan

Danielle Morgan

I-SHARE: Information sharing to enhance the patient experience Survey data collected in 2020 & 2023 revealed patients did not feel well-informed about services prior toappointments at the Eye Outpatients Department (EYEOPD). 50% of patients reported that they had never received supporting...

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Joanna McCulloch

Joanna McCulloch

Cataract Patient reported outcome measures (PROMS): Catquest, Priquest or CatPROM The Sydney Eye Hospital is a quaternary referral unit for eye diseases located in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. On average, Sydney Eye Hospital currently performs over 295 cataract operations...

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Catherine Mancuso

Catherine Mancuso

Designing safe work spaces The design phase of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital’s Redevelopment commenced over ten years ago. Throughout the design phase there were particular priorities centred around the provision of high quality care for our patients in a state of the art, modern facility;...

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Li Li

Li Li

Aier Eye Hospital Group: Rising from Integration and Collaboration 2023 marks the 21st anniversary for the estabilishment of Aier Eye Hosptial Group. Based on the orginalintention of ‘commit to the cause of human eye health with love’ and the principle of ‘integrate variousresources to share the...

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Tze Xing Lee

Tze Xing Lee

Engagement with patients to improve patient experience and increase understanding of Glaucoma Glaucoma focus group enables patients and their caregivers to empower themselves with knowledge to aid themselves to cope with this chronic eye disease. In 2022 and early 2023, three runs of Glaucoma...

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Farand Laghaei

Farand Laghaei

Sustainability in Dutch health care In my presentation, I would like to go from a national (Dutch) perspective on sustainability in (ophthalmic) health care to a more local approach on executing the plans within our eye hospital. Furthermore, I would like to show how we are implementing the Green...

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Cathy Kowalski

Cathy Kowaleski

Wilmer/Hopkins-QI Overview ~ Top impact projects This presentation will provide a general overview of Hopkins structure for quality and safety and highlight several specific Wilmer (eye) examples of impactful QI initiatives and outcomes.

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Jean-Pierre Klumpp

Jean-Pierre Klumpp

Patient Safety & Quality Management – An Integrated Iterative Process Patient Safety & Quality Management – Advantages of An Integrated Iterative Process on a common Platform – Examples of measures taken in the operating theatre (checklist time out procedure) and in the...

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Professor Euan Wallace

Prior to his appointment, from 2017-2020 Euan was the inaugural CEO of Safer Care Victoria, the state’s lead agency for healthcare quality and safety. Before joining the government, Euan was an academic clinician. He was the Carl Wood Professor and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology...

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Jean-Pierre Klumpp

Jean-Pierre Klumpp

Philanthropy Based Funding – Very Valuable for Access to Care and Human Aspects of Rare Diseases – How Clinicians Contribute Actively Presentation of the Importance of Phylanthropy as additional Funding source for a Foundation dedicated to Visual Health and Eye care with presentation of...

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Jos Hubers

Jos Hubers

Still thinking about it A summary of results of the HR community of practices Results of a employee/opthalmologistst work experience survey in relation to retention of our employees “new” recruitmenttools to find the right employees

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Jacomijn Gussenhoven

Jacomijn Gussenhoven

A shaky path: improving patientoutcomes & experiences In 2015 The Rotterdam Eye Hospital started very modestly with the implementation of Value BasedHealthcare with the introduction of de CatQuest questionnaire for cataract patients. Eight years later VBHC is part of the strategic goals of...

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Linda Fagan

Linda Fagan

Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation-philanthropy in promotion of eye How Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation future-proofed its own capacity and is partnering with the first hospital established in Australia, NSW’s world- class Sydney Eye Hospital, identifying opportunities, engaging community and...

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Weiwei Dai

FedEye: A Scalable and Adaptable Federated Learning Platform for AI in Eye Health The advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have brought about significant changes in healthcare. The success of machine learning in healthcare depends on the quality and quantity of...

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Stefan Larsson, MD, PhD,

Dr. Stefan Larsson

Progress in Healthcare requires focus on outcomes that matter to patients Bio Stefan Larsson, MD, PhD, is co-founder of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM). He is an independent advisor in health care and life sciences, and a senior advisor to Boston Consulting...

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Dr Carmel Crock

Carmel Crock

On creating a diagnostic safety program – one eye hospital’s experience In this presentation we will describe the development of a diagnostic safety program in our hospital.The program is based on development of clinical practice guidelines, morning handover with cross checking night...

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Elsie Chen

Elsie Chan

WAEH Medical Outcome Indicator Set Data: Keratoconus This presentation summarises the processes involved in the development of the first WAEH MedicalOutcome Indicator Set, for the corneal condition keratoconus. This set of Patient-Centered OutcomeMeasures brought together patient groups and clinicians...

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The Hon Mary-Anne Thomas MP

The Hon Mary-Anne Thomas MP Minister for Health, Minister for Health Infrastructure, Minister for Medical Research, Leader of the House  Mary-Anne Thomas was appointed Minister for Health in June 2022, Minister for Health Infrastructure in December 2022 & Minister for Medical Research...

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Penelope Allen

Penelope Allen

The Suprachoroidal Retinal Prosthesis My presentation will describe our work to develop a retinal prosthesis for use in people with profound vision loss due to end-stage retinal dystrophies. This has been tested in two clinical trials and aids navigation and object localisation. I will present...

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WAEH 🌍 – Annual Meeting

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Eye Colleagues Worldwide, Excited to Meet in Australia! WAEH2023 is scheduled for October 10-14, and we’re excited to welcome eye health experts from around the globe who are eager to share their wealth of knowledge! Your journey to Australia promises to be truly rewarding. You’ll...

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Newsletter Wilmer Eye Institute – Full member of the WAEH

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Dear friends and colleagues, September is always a busy time, with students returning to classes, the days growing shorter and ophthalmology meetings taking place with increasing frequency. In this issue, we look at some of the places our faculty members have been recently and some of the exciting...

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Global eye hospital specialists converge on Melbourne

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The 17th World Association of Eye Hospitals (WAEH) annual meeting 11 and 12 October The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (Eye and Ear) is gearing up to host a gathering of eye hospital professionals from around the globe as part of the WAEH annual meeting. Founded in 2007 by eight...

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Gene Therapy: Tom Edwards

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Meet Dr. Tom Edwards! He is a Melbourne-based vitreoretinal surgeon who also leads a research team investigating retinal gene therapy at the University of Melbourne affiliated Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) based at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. Dr. Edwards is working on a...

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WAEH 🌍 – Newsletter August

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Australia’s calling you, my friend. WAEH2023 is taking place 10-14 October, and we’ve got a who’s who of eye health colleagues from all over the world coming to share their knowledge. Early bird registration is about to close, but don’t worry—you’re right on time to claim your...

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Head of Lions Eye Donation Service – Victoria

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The Lions Eye Donation Service (LEDS) is a world leading non-profit eye bank responsible for stewarding the end-of-life eye donations, of Victorian donors, toward transplantation, research and training.  We offer a comprehensive donation medical service, from referral and consent, to donation,...

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Reminder: 17th Annual Meeting Invitation

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REMINDER!! Register now for The 17th Annual WAEH Meeting from October the 10th till October the 14th 2023 in Australia! Hosted by the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Eye Hospital from Melbourne, and the Sydney Eye Hospital and the Chatswood Private Hospital from Sydney.  This year’s themes?...

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WAEH Projects

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​​WAEH is pleased to announce its sponsored projects aimed at improving eye care around the world. These are the following projects: 1. Assessing Evidence-based Management Practices and variations within WAEH member hospitals. This project was submitted by The Maastricht University Clinic for...

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Oriel celebrates breaking ground milestone

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News from our full member the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust A special breaking ground celebration has been held today (Tuesday 11 July) to mark the start of construction to build Oriel, a new eye care, research and education centre in Camden. The integrated centre will be the...

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Patient perspective: Georgia Hall

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Georgia Hall was diagnosed and treated for choroidal melanoma in 2021 at Sydney Eye Hospital when she was 31 years old. She successfully received eye sparing plaque radiation therapy and now follows a rigorous scanning protocol at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre.  She is passionate about sharing...

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