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Diabetes and eye disease

Presented by Dr Jamie Chew, Lions Outback Vision

Dr Chew is one of the current Lions Outback Fred Hollows Fellowship Ophthalmologists, providing outreach services to remote and Indigenous communities in WA. He has worked as an ophthalmic registrar at Royal Perth and Fremantle Hospitals, in the Sydney Retina Clinic and Day Surgery and in the Orange and Dubbo Eye Centers in New South Wales. He worked as an intern and resident at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Emergency Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Ophthalmology, Rehabilitation and Aged Care. Jamie volunteered in the Indigenous Rural and Remote Eye Health Service (IRIS) Rural Eye Care Program in WA in 2012. Dr Chew will be discussing the effects of diabetes on eyes and what services Lions Outback Vision provides in regional WA.