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Organisers and speakers at the first optometry ocular therapeutics course in Australia

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Catalogue Number: 3174
Organisers and speakers at the first optometry ocular therapeutics course in Australia
Category: Photographs
Sub-Category: Photograph People and events
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1993
Time Period: 1940 to 1999
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Melbourne
Description Of Item: Digital image (jpg, 10,142 x 6,863 pixels, 72 dpi, 199 Mb) of the organisers and speakers at the first optometry ocular therapeutics course in Australia 1993 from left: Mark Roth, Dr Richard Witlan MD FACS (ophthalmologist), Colin Madigan, Dr Randall Thomas OD (US optometrist), John Bartlett, (Conference organiser), Dr Jim Thimons OD (US optometrist) and Judith Abbott. The course was held at Eden on the Park (now Bayview Eden) and this photograph was taken outside the conference venue
Historical Significance: In the 1990s great emphasis was placed on Australian optometrists gaining the legislative rights to use schedule 4 medicines to treat eye diseases, rights that were granted by State legislation in Victoria in 1996 and given practical effect in 2000. This photograph includes a number of the leaders of this important change to the scope of practice of optometry in Australia, notably Mark Roth, John Bartlett and Judith Abbott. Jim Thimons, also pictured in this photograph, was a very important optometric leader and teacher in the USA which had acquired rights through the various US States to use and prescribe therapeutic drugs in the period 1975 to 1998. He visited Australia many times to provide courses on the use of therapeutic drugs by Australian optometrists. This course was one of those occasions. For more detailed information see Cole BL. A history of Australian Optometry. 2015 Chapter 13.
How Acquired: Donated by John Bartlett, optometrist, Executive Director, Education and Professional Services, Essilor Amera Pty Ltd
Date Acquired: Nov 2016
Location: Archive computer iPhoto

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