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Our department provides specialised ophthalmic services for the local community, war veterans and patients beyond the catchment area that are in need of further expertise. We are currently running a major multi-year study assessing the cessation of routine topical antibiotic administration following routine cataract surgery.
| Amount awarded | Project and investigator details |
| $954,354 | NHMRC Ideas Grant, 2025-2028 Injectable bioscaffold for structural spinal repair. Investigators: Van Gelder J, Boughton P, Copping R, James D, Holsinger RMD, Sullivan M, Anderson D, Schlaphoff G. |
| Huynh B, Kibret G, Wechsler D, Lee A, Lim R, Clement C, Lawlor M. Outcomes of iStent inject combined with cataract surgery in Asian eyes: Australian data from the Fight Glaucoma Blindness international registry. Int Ophthalmol. 2024 Apr 25;44(1):200. doi: 10.1007/s10792-024-03104-x. Erratum in: Int Ophthalmol. 2024 Dec 10;45(1):5. doi: 10.1007/s10792-024-03274-8. |
| Sanchez-Monroy J, Nguyen V, Puzo M, Calvo P, Arruabarrena C, Monaco P, Chilov M, Keegan D, Barthelmes D, Gillies M. Subretinal fluid may protect against macular atrophy in neovascular age-related macular degeneration: 5 years of follow-up from Fight Retinal Blindness registry. Acta Opthalmologica. 101(4):457-464, 2023 Jun. |
| Jbara D, Tiuseco K, Azar D. Unintentional macular injury following high-energy cosmetic laser calibration. Lasers in Surgery & Medicine. 55(2):159-163, 2023 02. |
| Lam D, Wechsler DZ. Five-Year Outcomes of Trabeculectomy and Phacotrabeculectomy. Cureus 2021 Jan 27;13(1):e12950. doi: 10.7759/cureus.12950. |
| Cabrera-Aguas M, Kerdraon Y, Watson SL. Outcomes of Patients with Herpes Simplex Keratitis Before and After the Implementation of a New Treatment Guideline in Sydney, Australia. Asia Pac J Ophthalmol (Phila). 2021 Jan 19. doi: 10.1097/APO.0000000000000368. Online ahead of print.PMID: 33481397 No abstract available. |
| Sauma J, Rivera D, Wu A, Donate-Lopez J, Gallego-Pinazo R, Chilov M, Wu M, Wu L. Susac's syndrome: an update. Br J Ophthalmol. 2020; 104(9):1190-1195. |
| Hui M, Galvin J, Chilov M, Gabrielle PH, Fung AT. Popper Maculopathy: Long-term Follow-up and Case Series. Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2020; 14(2):195-199. |
| Cabrera-Aguas M, Kerdraon Y, Watson SL. Diagnosis using polymerase chain reaction and outcomes in herpes simplex keratitis. Acta Ophthalmol. 2020. |
| Cabrera-Aguas M, Kerdraon Y, Symes RJ, McCluskey P, Samarawickrama C, Rawlinson W, Watson SL. Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Treatment Guidelines for Herpes Simplex Keratitis in Sydney, Australia. Cornea. 2020; 39(7):834-840. |
| Chandra V, Merani R, Hunyor AP, Gillies M. Spontaneous Closure of a Macular Hole in Macular Telangiectasia Type 2. Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases 1-6. 2020. |
| Zada M; Cabrera-Aguas M; Branley M; Azar D; Watson S. Microbial keratitis associated with long-term orthokeratology. Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology. 2019; 47(2):292-294. |
| Rossiter-Thornton M; Varma A; Verma N; Hewitt AW. Air Bubbles Introduced From Peripheral Intravenous Lines Into the Cerebral Venous System: Response. Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology. 2019; 39(3):437-438. |
| Okolie K, Chen D, Ghabrial R, Schmidli R. Exophthalmos and multinodular goitre, an unusual combination. Endocrinol Diabetes Metab Case Rep. 2019; 2019:18-0138 |
| Darcy K; Apel A; Donaldson M; McDonald R; Males J; Coote M; Werner L; Chan E. Calcification of hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lenses following secondary surgical procedures in the anterior and posterior segments. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2019; 103(12):1700-1703. |
| Hui MM, Merani R, Bonar F, Hong AM, Fung AT. Presumed choroidal metastasis from soft tissue myoepithelial carcinoma. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep. 2019; 14:55-57. |
| Zheng L; Sandhu S; Wechsler D. Reversibility of postoperative wipe-out following glaucoma filtering surgery. Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology. 2019; 47(9):1211-1214. |
| Robyn H. Guymer, MBBS, PhD,1 Caroline M. Markey, PhD,2 Ian L. McAllister, MBBS, PhD,3 Mark C. Gillies, MBBS, PhD,4 Alex P. Hunyor, MBBS,4,5 Jennifer J. Arnold, MBBS,6 on behalf of the FLUID Investigators (of which Macquarie University Hospital and Clinic, South West Retina and Retina Associates Chatswood; Merani R is involved). Tolerating Subretinal Fluid in NeovascularAge-Related Macular Degeneration Treated with Ranibizumab Using a Treat-and-Extend Regimen. FLUID Study 24-Month Results. Ophthalmology. 2019; 126:723-734. |