Scientia Professor, School of Optometry and Vision Science at @UNSW. Expertise in epidemiology and research in corneal infection, dry eye, CL related diseases
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined September 2017
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Prof Fiona Stapleton retweeted
Water has germs that can stick to your contacts and harm your eyes! 💧 If water gets in your contact lenses, throw them away or disinfect them overnight in contact lens solution. Learn more about #ContactLenses: nei.nih.gov/learn-about-eye-…
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So proud of @RabiaMobeen4 and @fatimai71712524 - congratulations on your sensational presentations at #bcla2023, #Manchester @UNSWoptomvsci
Such great news to hear about the extension to this flagship program.
The extended UNSW Sydney Scientia Program will support an additional 48 early- to mid-career researchers over the next three years.
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Prof Fiona Stapleton retweeted
Join us on May 6th and 7th via tfoslifestylereport.org/
Open acess to six presentations about lifestyle and ocular surface diseases.
Pasword will be valid for both days.
#TFOSlifestyle #ocularsurfacedisease #dryeye @Eyeppl @DrBridgitte
Thank you to @SharonBentley and @IsabelleJalbert as co-editors of this Special Edition of Clinical and Experimental Optometry Public health and Indigenous eye health: more work to be done in optometry tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Congrats @RajendraGyawali and team from @UNSWoptomvsci on this recent paper reporting on enhancing eyecare delivery in Australia. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Prof Fiona Stapleton retweeted
Great to kick off the Ocular inflammation and immunology stream this morning at @iserworld conference, chairing with Dr @holly_chinnery @UniMelbDOVS #FrontTear lab, #cornea
Great work @GauriShrestha
Very proud of this fine piece of work by @GaurishShrestha showing the importance of energy pathway #metabolites in #keratitis. Just in time for #ISER2023 @UNSWoptomvsci @iserworld
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Great news and thanks to those who made this happen.
📣 UNSW #PhD / HDR candidates, we've heard you...
To help ease cost-of-living pressures, we'll be increasing stipends for HDR scholarships to $35,000 in 2023 and $37,684 in 2024.
The increase will apply to all new and current scholarship holders with scholarships under $35k. 👇
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Prof Fiona Stapleton retweeted
About one in two Americans aren’t necessarily aware that #contactlenses can be different from each other—a recipe for unadvisable switching. Learn more at SeeTomorrowNow.com #optometry
Prof Fiona Stapleton retweeted
Another publication form my PhD work. Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors involved in ocular infections and non-infectious conditions, #keratitis #conjunctiviis #niCIE
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Great to see this paper showing the importance of second eye cataract surgery in falls prevention published in MJA. @KeayLisa @pesudovs @JessHuangVision
Timely access to cataract surgery, for both eyes, is critical to optimizing vision and reducing risk of injury from falls - new paper out this week doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51611 @pesudovs @FionaJStapleton @JessHuangVision @KeayLisa @annapalagyi @dr_krisdr @TerryHoKC @georgeinstitute
Prof Fiona Stapleton retweeted
I’m so excited to announce that I’ve been promoted to Investigator in the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School! So grateful to all my mentors, colleagues, friends and family for their support along the way! @StGeniezLab @leomdphd @HMSeye 🤩🎉 #scicomm
Thanks #ARVO2022. Denver done and dusted. Wonderful to be able to attend overseas conference again. @toomey_melinda @tianni Jia @UNSWoptomvsci
Congratulations Minh on the publication of this review paper on Meibomian gland cell culture in @OcularSurface journal. @UNSWoptomvsci @UNSWMedicine authors.elsevier.com/c/1eBNR…
Amazing postgraduate students. You are such a credit to the School and UNSW.
Congrats to the following students who recevied UNSW ARC Postgraduate Council Student of the Year Awards yesterday: Azadeh Tavakkolisab, Binod Rayamajhee, Rajendra Gyawali, Fatima Iqbal and Ngozi-Chidi. So proud!
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Congrats @Memoona_Arshad on publishing her paper on the impact of water on microbial contamination of contact lens cases @nicole_carnt @UNSWoptomvsci
Effect of Water Exposure on Contact Lens Storage Case... : Optometry and Vision Science journals.lww.com/optvissci/A…
Thanks to @Duaharminder and @OcularSurface for the opportunity to contribute to this special edition on infectious keratitis. Home authors.elsevier.com/a/1dl5B…
This is a very well conducted study to describe interventions that really work. Important reading for institutions!!
Advancing women in healthcare leadership: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of multi-sector evidence on organisational interventions thelancet.com/journals/eclin…
