YO x E4E: Binocular Vision and Dry Eye Workshop

The Binocular Vision and Dry Eye Workshop is designed to equip volunteers participating in the 2025 Eyes4Everest eye camp with practical knowledge and clinical skills. Participants will learn how to perform, interpret, and manage common binocular vision dysfunctions, while also exploring how altitude and rural environments impact ocular health. The workshop will include discussion of dry eye cases in mountain communities and management of anterior eye conditions in resource-limited settings. Volunteers will have the opportunity to practice skills on each other and on patients, receiving constructive feedback from Shaun and Louise throughout the session.

About Shaun Chang: 

Shaun is the principal optometrist for Eyes2Learn Optometrists in Charlestown, New South Wales. He graduated from UNSW in 2008 and worked in independent practices in Canberra and Sydney. He completed his ocular therapeutics course at the University of Melbourne in 2012, and became an ACBO Fellow in 2020.

In 2014, Shaun discovered Sherpa children with vision difficulties and formed Eyes4Everest to treat preventable blindness. He is also the co-founder of MakeMind – an App company that creates digital solutions for paediatric optometry. Shaun is an avid supporter of entrepreneurial optometrists and an advocate for more binocular vision testing in primary eyecare.

About Louise Yau: 

Louise is a therapeutically endorsed optometrist who graduated from UNSW in 2020. She has worked in the Hunter region for the past five years and joined Dry Eye Solution in 2023. She has also assisted with a teaching clinic in Fiji for the Fred Hollows Foundation and is preparing for an upcoming Nepal outreach with Eyes4Everest.

Learning Objectives: 

Binocular Vision

• Identify the four components that make up accommodation and convergence
• Explain the impact of voluntary effort to Binocular Vision (H1 and H2 Profiles)
• List the purpose of each BV test
• Explain how yoked prisms work
• Determine an appropriate spectacle prescription to manage BVD 

Ocular Surface / Rural Eye Care

• Explain how altitude and environment affect the eyes and contribute to ocular surface disease
• Discuss dry eye presentations and case examples in mountain communities
• Determine appropriate management of common anterior eye conditions in rural settings

Registration

This in-person event is for volunteers participating in the 2025 Eyes4Everest eye camp. If you have any questions that you would like to send in beforehand, please email them to us at y.optoms@gmail.com.

3i (1T) CPD hours has been approved for this event. A certificate of attendance will be provided at the conclusion of the event. 

Location: Pokhara Eye Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal

Time: Thursday 9th October 9am-12pm

Special thank you to CooperVision for their unwavering support of Young Optometrists for making these events happen!