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Clinical Optometrist & Advanced Contact Lens Practitioner Kylie is our principal optometrist, she graduated as an Optometrist from QUT in 2009 with first class honours and was the recipient of the Optometry Australia Clinical Excellence Award in her final year. She is a therapeutically endorsed as well as CASA credentialed optometrist. Kylie is a supervising optometrist and lecturer at QUT in contact lens studies, and enjoys sharing her enthusiasm and clinical insights in optometry as an invited speaker at local and national professional optometry events. She has undertaken an observership within the contact lens service at the esteemed Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and was inducted as a Fellow of the British Contact Lens Association in 2016. Kylie is a state committee member for the CCLSA and is a paediatric aligned optometrist with the Queensland Children’s Hospital. Kylie enjoys practicing full scope optometry but has an interest and advanced skill set in complex contact lens fitting for keratoconus, corneal transplants, myopia control including orthokeratology, as well as for therapeutic cases such as severe dry eye and post-operative eye complications. She regularly accepts referrals and works collaboratively with local Brisbane optometrists and ophthalmologists to design custom contact lens solutions for their patients. Whilst Kylie may be highly credentialed as an optometrist, it is her compassionate nature, thorough and meticulous manner, as well as the genuine care and time she takes to clearly explain examination results that make her so highly regarded by our patients.

Mina graduated from the University of Melbourne Doctor of Optometry in 2019 with therapeutic endorsement and was the recipient of the Inspiring Doctor of Optometry Student Award. During her studies she also completed a clinical externship at the Omni Eye Services, in the United States. Mina undertook further clinical training and successfully completed Advanced Certificate in Advanced Contact Lenses, Glaucoma and Children's Vision through Australian College of Optometry. As a supervising optometrist, Mina contributed to the clinical training of Australian universities optometry students at the Australian College of Optometry and she also served as a clinical assessor for the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand (OCANZ) clinical optometry examination. She often presents at professional conferences and optometry professional articles, with the most recent presentation being at the 2024 Glaucoma NZ Professional Symposium. Mina was a former committee member of ECOV/SA, an advisory committee of Optometry Australia, where she provided optometry education opportunities for early career optometrists in VIC and SA. Mina has a calm and articulate demeanor with patients, putting them at ease. She has a special interest in advanced contact lens fitting for complex cornea conditions including keratoconus and corneal transplants, as well as other ocular diseases management involving dry eye disease, diabetes, glaucoma, and macula conditions. Mina is currently also a Senior Optometrist at the Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Services (STARS) Hospital in Brisbane.