Proud to be supporting Dr Bao Nguyen who is presenting on her work with Marianne Piano at the Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care research conference, on the role of #optometrists in supporting people living with dementia. #AAAPC23 AAAPC UniMelbDOVS

Dr Ceecee Britten-Jones is presenting about the need for primary eye care professionals to be familiar with gene therapies for inherited retinal disease to better signpost people living with these diseases to exciting emerging treatments #AAAPC23

Today I shared findings from our recently-published optometrists survey at the #AAAPC23 conference. Such a fun conference, and very excited about our work to improve genomics literacy in eye care. Read about our study here: doi.org/10.1111/cge.14… AAAPC UniMelbDOVS

Have you identified practical training in co-design to support consumers and communities? 🫂 We invite Early Research Career Researchers and Early and Mid-Career Researchers to share your thoughts by completing the short survey here: bit.ly/CoDesign_Train… 💭

📢Calling all #EMCRs - Centre for Digital Transformation of Health are hosting a #codesign symposium on 13 Sept ⬇️⬇️

Congratulations to our People's Choice award winner, Science at Melbourne PhD Candidate Mikaeylah Davidson @microbemik.bsky.social -- you won over our hearts and minds with your passion for fighting frog extinction!

I had so much fun presenting alongside A/Prof Lauren Ayton at the O=MEGA/World Congress of Optometry on optometric management of inherited retinal diseases and emerging treatments. Such a fantastic conference down under! 👀 #omega23 #wco4 UniMelbDOVS Optometry Australia Australian College of Optometry

I’m honored to have been awarded the OVSA Rising Star in Optometry award at #omega23/World Congress of Optometry #wco4 last weekend Very excited about clinical advancements and research led by #optometrists and proud to be a part of it UniMelb MDHS UniMelbDOVS Australian College of Optometry

My head is full of ideas following the Johns Hopkins Retinal dystrophies & electrophysiology meeting 🤩 thank you Singh Vision Research for the opportunity to attend and the fantastic conference. 📷 featuring A/Prof Lauren Ayton, Monica from MacLaren Research Group Oxford, and Mr Trash Wheel ⚙️

Which sense would you be most scared of losing? 👀 Most people will say their sense of sight. 🎧 Listen: Ockham's Razor with Dr @FloraHui: A peek into the future of glaucoma treatment. unimelb.me/3RBIh3c

I'm pretty proud of this one.... unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/… Congrats to Dr Ceecee Britten-Jones too! Centre for Eye Research Australia UniMelbDOVS University of Melbourne

Big news! Our A/Prof Lauren Ayton and Dr Ceecee Britten-Jones have been awarded The Advanced Genomics Collaboration award to further their important research into inherited eye disease ! 📢

A big congratulations to A/Prof Lauren Ayton and Dr Ceecee Britten-Jones from MSHS UniMelbDOVS who've received funding to establish a comprehensive patient dataset of inherited retinal diseases. What a way to celebrate #WorldOptometryWeek2024! 📰 go.unimelb.edu.au/twe8 UniMelb MDHS University of Melbourne

Excited to launch our genome sequencing project in #InheritedRetinalDiseases 🧬 Very grateful for the support from The Advanced Genomics Collaboration (TAGC), our team at UniMelbDOVS, Centre for Eye Research Australia, and amazing co-lead A/Prof Lauren Ayton. Come collaborate with us in ocular #genomics to diagnose #IRDs!

A #multidisciplinary study co-created with #audiology, #speechpathology & #optometry #students to raise awareness on #sticklersyndrome. UniMelbDOVS University of Melbourne UniMelb MDHS Centre for Eye Research Australia A/Prof Lauren Ayton Dr Ceecee Britten-Jones Professor Bruce Thompson AM #mshs Online Open Access: dovepress.com/articles.php?a…

What roles do allied health professionals play in managing Stickler Syndrome, and how can we improve #MultidisciplinaryCare? Our new paper Dove Medical Press UniMelb MDHS Kwang Cham (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ A/Prof Lauren Ayton UniMelbDOVS 📖dovepress.com/articles.php?a…

👋 An end to #ARVO2024. See you guys next time! safe travels ✈️🌏 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇸🇪🇬🇧#collaborativeclowns #visionresearch Bang Bui @pete_the_teapot Yaashwini Laura Juan Sepulveda @FloraHui Dr Ceecee Britten-Jones Sena Gocuk UniMelbDOVS ARVO

The absolute highlight of my #ARVO2024 was catching up with the team at Singh Vision Research and seeing my #NextGenerationSequencing paper cited on Setu’s poster! So inspiring to see how proud Bani Aguirre, MD, MPH was of the team, and looking forward to catching up again.

Dr Dr Ceecee Britten-Jones A/Prof Lauren Ayton and the TACG Ocular Genomics Hub team are working to establish a comprehensive patient dataset of inherited retinal diseases—paving the way for the research and development of future treatments.

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.