16–19 July

The annual conference of the Australasian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (AUSCRS), taking place on the spectacular Darwin Harbour, is an invitation to ‘Disconnect to reconnect – experience the Top End in every sense’.

Convened by co-Presidents, Dr Jacqueline Beltz and Professor Gerard Sutton, AUSCRS will feature dedicated educational programmes for advanced trainees, doctors, and support staff, with the prestigious 2025 Barrett/Wolfe Lecture to be delivered by renowned refractive and cataract surgeon, Professor Michael Knorz.

AUSCRS will be held at the Darwin Entertainment Centre.

auscrs.org.au/2025-conference

17–18 August 2025

Building on the success of SRC and O=MEGA, the Optometry Clinical Conference is a proud collaboration between OVSA, OQNT and OTas, and the main event in the Optometry Australia conference calendar. Speakers include Professors Jamie Craig, Robyn Guymer, Celia Chen, Eric Papas, and Blair Lonsberry; as well as Richard Johnson and Associate Professor Zhichao Wu.

The Optometry Clinical Conference will take place at Centrepiece at Melbourne Park.

Visit: occ.optometry.org.au

30–31 August 2025

Brush up on common subspecialty topics, find out about new advances in ophthalmology, and ask questions in a friendly atmosphere at Ophthalmology Updates! This conference is for general ophthalmologists, subspeciality ophthalmologists, and registrars. The speaker list includes Associate Professors Jay Sridhar and Chameen Samarawickrama, and Drs Sui Wong, Ben Lahood, Jennifer Fan-Gaskin, Amy Cohn, Krishna Tumuluri, and Emily Gregory-Roberts.

Ophthalmology Updates! will take place at the Fullerton Hotel in Sydney.

Visit: ophthalmologyupdates.com

10–12 October 2025

Explore ‘The Force’ in orthokeratology, myopia management, and specialty contact lenses. The Orthokeratology Society of Oceania’s 2025 conference will include lectures and practical workshops presented by John Mountford, Michael Lipson, Shonit Jamohan, Luke Arundel, Jagrut Lallu, Alex Petty, Charl Laas, Gavin Boneham, Celia Bloxsam, and Phillip Cheng.

OSO 2025 will take place at the RACV Royal Pines, Queensland

Visit: oso.net.au