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Optometry Clinic 40th Anniversary "Protecting the Critical Period of Visual Development" Lunch Time Online Seminar

Conference / Seminar

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  • Date

    11 Mar 2025

  • Organiser

    School of Optometry

  • Time

    13:00 - 14:00

  • Venue

     

Speaker

Miss Belcher Chan

Mr Horace Wong

Summary

Young children often can't clearly express visual issues, making it hard for parents to assess their visual development. Missing the "critical period" for visual development can lead to amblyopia, affecting depth perception, academics, and quality of life. In this online seminar, optometrists will explain visual development milestones from infancy to childhood and discuss common eye problems like myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and strabismus, including their symptoms, causes, and treatments.

Keynote Speaker

Miss Belcher Chan

Senior Resident Optometrist

Miss Belcher Chan graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Optometry from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2023 and is currently a registered optometrist (Part 1) in Hong Kong. She is now a senior resident optometrist at the School of Optometry at PolyU, responsible for comprehensive optometric examinations and various pediatric examination services, including pediatric comprehensive optometric assessments, binocular coordination, and visual cognitive evaluation and training. Her clinical interests include children's visual cognitive development, amblyopia, and strabismus.

Mr Horace Wong

Senior Optometrist

Mr. Wong graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Optometry from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2013. After graduation, he completed a two-year residency program as an optometrist at the School of Optometry, focusing on projects related to children's visual function development, visual training, visual cognition, and visual electrophysiology. Mr. Wong is currently a senior optometrist at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Optometry, serving as the leader of the pediatric vision team and one of the instructors for the optometry residency training program. He is primarily responsible for pediatric comprehensive optometric assessments, binocular coordination assessments, visual training, and visual cognition evaluations and training.

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