Dr Maria Cabrera-Aguas chats with Prof Stephanie Watson, a corneal specialist and the head of the Corneal Research Group at the University of Sydney, Save Sight Institute, and the Head of the Corneal Unit at the Sydney Eye Hospital about the lessons dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in our research group in 2021, and the challenges for corneal research and our research projects for 2022. Interested in joining the Keratoconus and/or Dry eye registries? ·  ...

Dr Maria Cabrera-Aguas chats with Pauline Khoo, a Clinical Researcher at the University of Sydney, Save Sight Institute about the world’s first international dry eye registry The dry eye registry records patient outcomes, generates benchmarking reports to improve your patients’ dry eye outcomes and generates anonymised reports comparing clinicians’ patient outcomes with those of your peers. Interested in joining the registry? Request access at https://frbresearch.org/#access&nb...

Dr Maria Cabrera chats with Pauline Khoo (@khootweets), a Clinical Researcher at the University of Sydney, Save Sight Institute about the association between dry eye disease and a medication for breast cancer. Dry eye disease is a common condition that happens when your tears are not able to lubricate your eyes. There are many risk factors for this disease including female gender, ocular conditions, autoimmune diseases, association with medications, and the environment. If you have a...

Dr Maria Cabrera chats with Dr Himal Kandel (@kandelhimal), a Research Associate at the University of Sydney, Save Sight Institute about the importance of a quality-of-life questionnaire in keratoconus. Measuring quality of life, an abstract term, is a bit more complex than measuring length or weight. But a quality-of-life questionnaire can allow us to measure it in a scientific way to find out how keratoconus treatments and disease progression are impacting people’s quality of life. If...

Dr Jackie Tan chats with Dr Maria Cabrera about a new technology to seal corneal wounds without stitches. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please send them to sydeyepodcast@gmail.com The Transcript is available in the 'Transcript' tab on this page. Connect with Dr Jackie Tan: Email: jtan8777@uni.sydney.edu.au Twitter: @drjacktan Don't forget to listen to our previous episodes --> Ep4: Eye injury registry Ep3: Herpes Simplex Keratitis Ep2: Antimicrobial re...

Eye injuries are the main cause of vision loss in one eye worldwide. Annette Hoskin chats with Dr Maria Cabrera about the creation of an eye injury registry to understand when and where eye injuries happen, and better understand how we can manage those eye injuries. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please send them to sydeyepodcast@gmail.com The Transcript is available in the 'Transcript' tab on this page. Connect with Annette Hoskin: Email: annettehoskin@yahoo.com.au Twi...

Did you know that a corneal infection caused by herpes simplex virus is one of the main causes of blindness in developed countries? Corneal specialist, Prof Stephanie Watson chats with Dr. Maria Cabrera about how to identify and prevent this infection. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please send them to sydeyepodcast@gmail.com The Transcript is available in the 'Transcript' tab on this page. Closed captioning for this episode can be also found on YouTube --> H...

Did you know that antimicrobial resistance also occurs in corneal infections as well as in systemic infections? Dr. Maria Cabrera talks about what antimicrobial resistance is, some causes of antimicrobial resistance, and how to prevent antimicrobial resistance in corneal infections. The transcript is available in the 'Transcript' tab on this page. Closed captioning for this episode can be found on YouTube --> HERE Don't forget to listen to our previous episode --> Ep1:...

If you wear contact lenses, did you know that you are more prone to get corneal infections? Corneal specialist, Prof Stephanie Watson talks with Dr. Maria Cabrera about what causes a corneal infection, how to recognise it, and how to prevent it. Closed captioning for this episode can be found on YouTube --> HERE If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please send them to sydeyepodcast@gmail.com Connect with us on Twitter: Dr Maria Cabrera: @CabreraMarie, Prof Stephanie Wa...