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The Australian Government has legislated that a My Health Record will be created for all Medicare and Department of Veterans’ Affairs card holders in Australia by the end of 2018, unless they choose not to have one.

From the 1st May 2018, Medicare Australia have allocated an item number to the procedure Corneal Collagen Cross Linking (CXL). 

General Practitioners from all over Brisbane gathered for an educational seminar on current management of diabetes

Over the weekend our three retinal specialists, Dr Albert Aralar, Dr Mark Donaldson and Dr Michael Hogden attended the annual Australian and New Zealand Society of Retinal Specialists meeting in Melbourne.

Dr Mark Donaldson was the visiting speaker for a presentation to Gold Coast ophthalmologists on the topic of new treatments for macular oedema.

Cataracts – not everyone is the same! In order to maximize your visual outcome, it is important that your eye surgeon personalises your cataract surgery to your lifestyle and visual requirements.

Brisbane ophthalmologists were extremely fortunate to host Dr Peter Kaiser and Dr Mark Donaldson acted as chairman for a wonderful meeting on the latest treatments for wet age related macular degeneration and retinal vein occlusions.

As part of the Terrace Eye Centre Ocular Oncology Service research connections Dr Bill Glasson and Dr Sunil Warrier organised for Professor Brian Marr, Director of the Ophthalmic Ocular Oncology Service at the Columbia University Medical Centre, based in New York, along with Professor Richard Carvajal Medical Oncologist and also head of drug trials for the Columbia University Medical Centre. 

Dr Mark Donaldson will now be visiting Bundaberg four times per year, performing retinal surgery at Mater Hospital Bundaberg.

One of our corneal subspecialists at Terrace Eye Centre, Dr Sing-Pey Chow, was the lead author of a recent publication in the prestigious British Journal of Ophthalmology (BJO).