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Webinar: Inherited Retinal Diseases – an update for Optometrists

This Macular Disease Foundation Australia webinar will feature ophthalmologist and clinician-scientist Professor Alex Hewitt.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Outline the key tests used for diagnosis and monitoring of IRDs

2. Describe the multidisciplinary approach to IRD patient management

3. Describe the current and emerging treatments for IRDs

Accredited by Optometry Australia for 1 Institute of Excellence Quality Assured CPD hour

About the presenter

Professor Alex Hewitt.

Professor Hewitt’s ophthalmology clinics at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and Royal Children’s Hospital specialise in inherited eye diseases. He is also a research scientist at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research and leads Clinical Genetics research at CERA.