Dr Hoang, a faculty member of Hanoi Medical University Ophthalmology Department, is the first Vietnamese glaucoma fellow of Sydney Eye Hospital in 2021. He completed his residency in Vietnam and gained a Master of International Ophthalmology from The University of Sydney. In 2018, he was awarded a scholarship to complete the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. He is also a Clinical Senior Lecturer of Save Sight Institute to foster the collaboration between The University of Sydney and Hanoi Medical University. In 2025, he completed his PhD at Hanoi Medical University, assessing online circular contrast perimetry, a Melbourne-based ophthalmic tool, for glaucoma.

Professor Dr. Tengku Ain Kamalden is Professor and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, and vitreoretinal surgeon at Universiti Malaya and Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.

She holds a Masters degrees from Universiti Malaya and the National University of Singapore, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She was named among 20 IAMP Young Physician Leaders in 2013 and later a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her honours include the Bayer Global Ophthalmology Award, the Alcon Research Institute Young Investigator Award, and the Fulbright Scholarship.

Her research focuses on ocular microRNA biomarkers, trauma, and retinal disorders. She contributes to the national postgraduate ophthalmology curriculum, serves as an examiner for the Malaysian Conjoint Board and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (UK), and is a life member of the Asia Pacific Ocular Trauma Society, Malaysian Society of Ophthalmology, and Council Member of the College of Ophthalmologists, Academy of Medicine Malaysia.

Andrew Chang is consultant vitreoretinal ophthalmologist and the Head of Ophthalmology at the Sydney Eye Hospital. He is the Medical Director of Sydney Retina Clinic. He holds academic appointments of Conjoint Professor Department of Surgery UNSW and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. Commitment to international ophthalmology includes the role of Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Vitreoretinal Society (APVRS) and deputy Secretary-General of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO). 
Professional awards include the 2022 Tano Lecture of the APVRS, Senior Achievement Award, Distinguished Service Award and the Outstanding Service in Prevention of Blindness Award of the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) and the RANZCO Excellence in Teaching Award.
In 2023 his contributions to ophthalmology and retinal surgery were acknowledged in being awarded the Member of the Order of Australia.

Elisa completed her BMedSci(Hons1), post graduate MBBS, GradDipMed(OphthalSci) and PhD at The University of Sydney. Her PhD was laboratory-based on The Development of the Primate Retina. Following this, she completed her MBBS then her FRANZCO training with clinical Fellowships at Sydney Eye Hospital: the Professorial (Uveitis/IRD/Glaucoma/Neuro) (2018) and Medical Retina (2019) Fellowships. Elisa is currently a Staff Specialist at Sydney Eye & Westmead Hospital, and an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney.

On finishing the Sydney Eye Hospital ophthalmology training programme, he completed Strabismus and Paediatric ophthalmology fellowship training at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. Craig is currently head of the Strabismus and Paediatric Unit at Sydney Eye Hospital and teaches both strabismus and cataract surgery in adults and children. He is a senior staff specialist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and a visiting medical officer at Sydney Children’s Hospital. From 2010-2017 he was director of training of Registrars at Sydney Eye Hospital and from 2012 -2018 President of the Australian and New Zealand Strabismus Society.  He is the current RANZCO NSW State Branch Treasurer and a Federal RANZCO Councillor. Craig has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters and lectured extensively in Australia and internationally.

He has been awarded a Member of the Order of Australia AM for services to ophthalmology and medicine and in March 2019 awarded the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology prevention of blindness award in Asia.

Ian is an experienced Ophthalmologist. He has authored over 335 publications.

Ian has two major research and management interests. These are in Macular Degeneration, and in all aspects of Neuro-ophthalmology. The latter especially involves collaborative care for patients with Temporal Arteritis, for which he has developed new diagnostic techniques, and new surgical approaches for Temporal Artery Biopsy.

In 2007, he was awarded a PhD entitled ‘The Watery Eye’. In 2024, he completed and submitted his DSc, entitled ‘Cataracts in Medicine for 2020: Translation of aetiology, associations, and management into surgical and visual outcomes.’.

Ian chairs the second-weekly Saturday morning Sydney Ophthalmology Writers Group (WG) at his Rooms in Chatswood, teaching Ophthalmology to WG members, who are undergraduates in Medicine, or newer graduates. Collaboration at WG occurs from senior colleagues in Ophthalmology and Medicine. WG’s primary aim is for members to gain publications in order to assist in RANZCO training selection.

Dr John Kennedy is immediate past chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at St Vincents Private Hospital. He has held a number of senior positions in RANZCO, including chairman of the NSW branch, two terms as federal councillor, and is currently a member of RANZCO’s Code of Conduct Committee. Since 2018 he has been the inaugural chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Eye Foundation (ANZEF).

He is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists in the UK, and also a member of the American, European and Australasian societies of cataract and refractive surgery.

In 2022 he was appointed as a Board member of the Sarks Macular Degeneration Research Foundation.

A/Prof Lawlor is a glaucoma surgeon and specialist in diseases of the optic nerve. He has a PhD in bioethics from the University of Sydney and completed his ophthalmology training at Sydney Eye Hospital. He has dual fellowships in glaucoma and neuro-ophthalmology, both at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

A/Prof Lawlor is a Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Sydney Eye and RPA Hospitals and a clinical academic at the University of Sydney. He is the Chief Investigator of “Fight Glaucoma Blindness!” an international registry of glaucoma outcomes that provides real world evidence of the safety and efficacy of a range of glaucoma treatments.

Peter McCluskey is currently a Professor of Ophthalmology at The University of Sydney and Director of the Uveitis unit at Sydney Eye Hospital. He was the Chair of Ophthalmology and director of the Save Sight Institute at The University of Sydney from Mar 2009 – Dec 2025.
He is an internationally recognised inflammatory eye disease specialist. He is an active clinician with a large uveitis clinic at Sydney Eye Hospital and clinics at St Vincent’s Clinic and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Peter McCluskey is an author of more than 370 peer reviewed papers, 27 book chapters, 2 apps and 4 books. His H-index is currently 69 (google scholar) and his work has been cited more than 15,000 times.
He is a dedicated teacher who has received distinguished service awards from APAO, RANZCO and AAO for his teaching contributions.

On Australia Day 2020 he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to Ophthalmology and the community.
In 2021, Peter McCluskey was awarded a Doctor of Science in Medicine by the University of NSW.

Peter McCluskey is currently the RANZCO President.

Dr Michael Rossiter-Thornton is a Sydney-based cataract & refractive surgeon. He teaches refractive surgery at Sydney University where he also holds a Masters in International Security, does cataract surgery aid trips to south east Asia, is a fellow of the European Board of Ophthalmology (FEBOS-CR), and is doing a PhD through the London Vision Clinic, UK.

Dr Esra Sanli is a Prince Of Wales trained ophthalmologist who currently works on the Gold Coast. She did her sub-specialty oculoplastic training with Dr Richard Caesar at Cheltenham General Hospital in the UK.

She practices in Tweed, Southport and at the Gold Coast University Hospital.

She is thrilled to be able to share her experience and knowledge with her colleagues at the NSW branch ASM.

Clinical  Professor Nitin Verma AM,OTL,CStJ.is a practising comprehensive  ophthalmologist in Hobart Tasmania, Australia.He is the immediate past president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists  and chairs a number of key committees, Steering committee: Vision 2030 and beyond (RANZCO), Global Eye Health Committee (RANZCO), International Society for Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (Aus NZ Chapter), Gateway Committee, Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO)and is a director of  Vision 2020 Australia.

Nitin is actively engaged in clinical ophthalmological research and undergraduate and postgraduate education at the University of Sydney, The University of Tasmania and The University of Timor Leste.  His research interests include international health, macular disease and teleophthalmology.

In recognition of decades of philanthropic works Nitin was awarded the Order of Australia and the Order of Timor Leste in 2010.He received the Distinguished Service and The Meritorious Service Award for the Prevention of Blindness, from the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology ; The RANZCO College medal and distinguished Service Award, as well as the Pride of Australia Role Model Award (2006). He was made a Companion of the Royal College of Australian Surgeons in 2014.

In 2006 Nitin was appointed Honorary Consult for East Timor in recognition of his dedication to the Timorese people. He is now the dean of the Consular Corps in Tasmania. In 2013 he was Hobart’s Citizen of the Year and a finalist for Tasmania’s Australian of the Year. 

Nitin has authored/co-authored more than 50 academic publications, written several book chapters on teleophthalmology. He has presented or been a contributor at many academic conferences; including invited lectures such as the Hollows Lecture at the RANZCO Annual scientific meeting in 2013 and the LP Aggarwal oration at the Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences in 2012 and 2022. He delivered the National Institute of Health Global Health Vision Oration in 2023.

Doctor Patrick Versace is a cataract and refractive surgeon with more than 25 years’ experience as a specialist ophthalmologist. He holds appointments as a senior lecturer in Optometry at The University of New South Wales and Staff Specialist ophthalmologist at The Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick and Sydney Eye Hospital providing clinical service and registrar surgical training.
After gaining Anaesthetic qualifications in London Dr Versace completed his specialist ophthalmology training with Sydney Eye Hospital to become a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists.
Prior to embarking on a sub-specialty career path Dr Versace worked in a clinical teaching capacity with ‘Project Orbis’ as an ophthalmic anaesthetist travelling through Central and South America – a formative experience leading to an ongoing commitment to skills exchange teaching programs such as time in Myanmar teaching modern phaco cataract surgery.
Dr Versace has been involved in numerous clinical trials and is often an invited speaker at international meetings – most recently as Gold Medal lecturer at the Nethradhama meeting in India. He regularly contributes to the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery giving lectures and participating in symposia.
As a member of the TGA Ophthalmic Clinical Advisory Group and specialist advisor to the ACMD (Advisory Committee for Medical Devices – Canberra) Dr Versace contributes to the safe introduction of new technologies to Australia – a fruitful use of experience gained working with the development of new IOL technologies both clinically in Australia and at a research level in Europe.
As an early adopter of LASIK in Australia, Dr Versace has been deeply involved in the development of laser technology for vision correction surgeries. He sat on the Zeiss advisory board for several years as Presbyond was being introduced and has recently been involved in trialling new Femtosecond laser platforms for lenticule based refractive correction.
Dr Versace’s approach to practice and surgery is customised, collaborative care using appropriate and modern technology in a safe environment.

Professor Stephanie Watson OAM FARVO is Head of Ophthalmology and leads the Corneal Research Group at The University of Sydney and Head of the Corneal Unit at the Sydney Eye Hospital. As Chair, Australian Vision Research; Chair, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists NSW Branch and Secretary to the Asia Pacific Ophthalmic Trauma Society, Professor Watson contributes to policy and advocacy. Professor Watson has generated over 244 Scopus publications and $14M in funding. As well as discovering new knowledge the research has changed practice and enabled the training of over 80 next-generation eye experts. The Medal of the Order of Australia was awarded for services to ophthalmology and Gold Fellowship of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). In 2019, Professor Watson became a Fellow of the Academy of Asia-Pacific Professors of Ophthalmology (AAPPO) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.