Queensland Ophthalmic Specialists

31/12/2022

Happy New Years Eve! If you are popping a celebratory bottle of bubbles then avoid spending your New Year’s Day at the emergency department.

22/12/2022

06/07/2022

Dr Sharwood will be presenting at the upcoming QCH paediatric Strabismus Masterclass on Saturday 27th August, 2022.

Optometrists, orthoptists, ophthalmic registrars and nurses are invited to attend.
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/eumhvuan
Optometry Australia: 5.5 CPD hours

28/05/2022

RANZCO’s Paediatric Ophthalmologists have just launched a position statement on ‘Progressive Myopia in Childhood’ regarding best practice for the diagnosis and treatment of progressive myopia in children: https://bit.ly/38Qnipy

Thank you to everyone advocating for , particularly children’s eye health, this . Despite coming to a close, we need to continue raising awareness on myopia.

03/03/2020

“Cataract Surgery 2020- Working together to get the best vision”. Thank you to and for providing Dr Christopher Stewart & Dr Phillipa Sharwood with the theatre access and equipment for a great hands-on Optometry CPD evening.

29/02/2020

Dr Phillipa Sharwood with the team from Queensland Children’s Hospital enjoying the 27th Australian New Zealand Strabismus Society Meeting in Adelaide. There were fantastic strabismus pearls from Ms Gill Adams of Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and local strabismus surgeons presenting their most challenging cases.

21/02/2020

Congratulations Robert Henderson and the team at GOSH and the other UK sites. It’s an exciting new era for patients and their families living with inherited Retinal Dystrophies. Fingers crossed we can get access to it in Australia soon and that it paves the way for therapy for other the other blinding dystrophies.

The first paediatric patients have received a pioneering new gene therapy that can restore eyesight at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

20/02/2020

As children grow, their eyes change quickly. Being vigilant about eye health is important to help identify and address problems early, while children’s eyes are still developing. For 2020: Year of the

12/12/2019

Thank you to one of our lovely patients for gifting us this beautiful Christmas bouquet 🎀

12/12/2019

🎄Christmas Clinic Hours 🎄

31/10/2019

How to interpret your vision test result:

Distance visual acuity is measured on a distance vision chart. Visual acuity testing assesses your central vision only and is reported as a fraction, such as 6/12. The top number of the fraction is the standard distance at which testing is performed, i.e. 6 meters. The bottom number is the smallest size letter that can be read on the chart. If a person has a visual acuity result of 6/12 they would have to be within 6 metres of the letter that a person with a ‘normal’ eye could see clearly from 12 metres away. A person with 6/6 visual acuity has ‘normal vision’ by definition, although many people have vision better than 6/6. You may have heard people say that they have 20/20 vision. This is the same as 6/6, it’s just reported in feet rather than metres.