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Partnership brings renewed hope through sight-restoring care The Fred Hollows Foundation and Vision for Life Institute (VFLI) have announced an exciting new partnership aimed at restoring sight for people who would otherwise remain needlessly blind or vision impaired. Launching in January 2026, this collaboration will drive positive eye health care across more than 25 countries. […]

Partnership brings renewed hope through sight-restoring care The Fred Hollows Foundation and Vision for Life Institute (VFLI) have announced an exciting new partnership aimed at restoring sight for people who would otherwise remain needlessly blind or vision impaired. Launching in January 2026, this collaboration will drive positive eye health care across more than 25 countries.

Overview Join us for an all day conference with Vision for Life Institute Vision for Life Conference Join us for our annual Vision for Life Institute Conference for a full day of engaging lectures by world class ophthalmologists on medical & surgical retina, uveitis, glaucoma, oculoplastics, neuroophthalmology, cornea & refractive surgery. Event location: Brisbane Convention

VFLI is delighted to announce that Dr Li has joined us in her new role as clinical researcher. Dr Ye Li is a second-year ophthalmology registrar with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO). In addition to clinical and surgical training, she continues to be involved with various research endeavours. Dr Li’s

Book Ticket Vision for Life Institute is delighted to announce our inaugural Vision for Life Conference will be held on Sunday 2nd March 2025

Southside Eye Centre will be moving location on the 7th November 2022. The new clinic will be located at 1985 Logan Road Upper Mt Gravatt. It is only a few doors away from the current rooms.

If you’re thinking about laser eye surgery but are worried about the procedure, this is completely normal. Please rest reassured that, after it’s complete, the vast majority of our patients comment on how simple it is.

You must be over 18 to be eligible for laser eye surgery, however there is no upper age limit. There are a few factors that need to be taken into account to see if you’re an ideal candidate and age may affect these.

As sight is so important to our lives, it’s only natural to feel apprehensive about any procedure involving our eyes. LASIK is a popular laser eye surgery, successfully performed on over 700,000 patients each year. So, Is LASIK surgery safe?

Many people falsely assume that laser vision correction surgery is only for people with long-distance blurred vision (myopia). Today, many types of laser eye surgeries exist for all sorts of vision conditions, including astigmatism.