The Save Sight Institute

This event targets our community of young patients, their parents or carers, and teachers. We were delighted to welcome inspirational individuals such as Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, Mia Armsworth, Connor McLeod, Brodie Smith, Dr James Smith and Jenna Jones alongside a host of specialists in the field, who demonstrated that vision loss and blindness need not hold you back from greatness.

This event targets our community of young patients, their parents or carers, and teachers. We were delighted to welcome inspirational individuals such as Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, Mia Armsworth, Connor McLeod, Brodie Smith, Dr James Smith and Jenna Jones alongside a host of specialists in the field, who demonstrated that vision loss and blindness need not hold you back from greatness.

This event targets our community of young patients, their parents or carers, and teachers. We were delighted to welcome inspirational individuals such as Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, Mia Armsworth, Connor McLeod, Brodie Smith, Dr James Smith and Jenna Jones alongside a host of specialists in the field, who demonstrated that vision loss and blindness need not hold you back from greatness.

This event targets our community of young patients, their parents or carers, and teachers. We were delighted to welcome inspirational individuals such as Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, Mia Armsworth, Connor McLeod, Brodie Smith, Dr James Smith and Jenna Jones alongside a host of specialists in the field, who demonstrated that vision loss and blindness need not hold you back from greatness.

This event targets our community of young patients, their parents or carers, and teachers. We were delighted to welcome inspirational individuals such as Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, Mia Armsworth, Connor McLeod, Brodie Smith, Dr James Smith and Jenna Jones alongside a host of specialists in the field, who demonstrated that vision loss and blindness need not hold you back from greatness.

This event targets our community of young patients, their parents or carers, and teachers. We were delighted to welcome inspirational individuals such as Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, Mia Armsworth, Connor McLeod, Brodie Smith, Dr James Smith and Jenna Jones alongside a host of specialists in the field, who demonstrated that vision loss and blindness need not hold you back from greatness.

This event targets our community of young patients, their parents or carers, and teachers. We were delighted to welcome inspirational individuals such as Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, Mia Armsworth, Connor McLeod, Brodie Smith, Dr James Smith and Jenna Jones alongside a host of specialists in the field, who demonstrated that vision loss and blindness need not hold you back from greatness.

This event targets our community of young patients, their parents or carers, and teachers. We were delighted to welcome inspirational individuals such as Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, Mia Armsworth, Connor McLeod, Brodie Smith, Dr James Smith and Jenna Jones alongside a host of specialists in the field, who demonstrated that vision loss and blindness need not hold you back from greatness.

This event targets our community of young patients, their parents or carers, and teachers. We were delighted to welcome inspirational individuals such as Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum, Mia Armsworth, Connor McLeod, Brodie Smith, Dr James Smith and Jenna Jones alongside a host of specialists in the field, who demonstrated that vision loss and blindness need not hold you back from greatness.

KeraClub 2019 Panel Discussion by The Save Sight Institute

KeraClub 2019 Ana Sandoval by The Save Sight Institute

KeraClub Michelle Urquhart by The Save Sight Institute

KeraClub 2019 Dr Jim Kokkinakis by The Save Sight Institute

KeraClub 2019 Professor Stephanie Watson by The Save Sight Institute

KeraClub 2019 Joy Alleyne by The Save Sight Institute

KeraClub 2019 Intro by The Save Sight Institute

KeraClub 2019 by The Save Sight Institute

Simran Goyal spoke on the effects of ‘becoming a yes woman’ as she transitioned from secondary school to university, and finally into the corporate world. High school proved challenging, as she struggled to find people her age to relate to during a time that was punctuated with change. However, she resolved to engage in a variety of activities including touch football (playing and coaching), the debate team, and leadership positions. Between her determination to try new things and the array of assistive technology available to her, she flourished. She found university remarkably inclusive; UNSW provided her with emailed lecture notes, in-class note-takers, and reformatted study spaces – all of which encouraged her to keep going. She’s now taking on the less equipped spaces of the professional world with her ‘yes woman’ attitude and has launched into a new hobby of photography.

Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum kicked off the day with a charismatic rendering of his life and experience with retrolental fibroplasia. Growing up before the advent of comprehensive disability services, he faced discrimination from an early age. Nevertheless, he excelled in his studies, attended law school, and became the first totally blind person appointed a full professorship at a university in Australia or New Zealand. He expressed gratitude for the assistance of his colleagues, students, and wife throughout his studies and early teaching career, and emphasized the limitless possibilities that now come with the era of technology.

Briony Glastonbury introduces the Save Sight Institute