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- King’s Birthday Honour: Congratulations Dr Sherene Devanesen

June 21, 2024 | News

King’s Birthday Honour: Congratulations Dr Sherene Devanesen

We’d like to congratulate our Board Chair Dr Sherene Devanesen (AM), for receiving a Member of the Order…

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- Celebrating our nurses on International Nurses Day Nurse Smitha standing to the left of a graduate nurse, both wearing blue scrubs against a window

May 12, 2024 | Events, News

Celebrating our nurses on International Nurses Day

International Nurses Day (IND) is celebrated every year on May 12 to honour the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s…

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- 2024 Patient Experience Awards Executive Director Operations and Chief Nursing Officer, Leanne Turner, standing next to nurse Xavier Reyes, holding a certificate.

April 29, 2024 | News

2024 Patient Experience Awards

Outstanding patient experience is a primary priority and ultimately supports our mission to become the world’s leading eye…

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- Remembering Sir Ernest Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop Sir Weary Dunlop and Lieutenant Colonel A. E. Coates, sitting at a desk looking and images prisoners of war drew in Thailand

April 25, 2024 | News

Remembering Sir Ernest Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop

Today on ANZAC Day, our national day of remembrance, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (Eye and…

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- Graduate RN Nurse information sessions open

March 15, 2024 | News

Graduate RN Nurse information sessions open

The Eye and Ear is pleased to announce that four information sessions for our Graduate RN Nursing Program…

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- International Women’s Day 2024 Renee Chmielewski holding the Board Chairs Medal she was bestowed with at the 2021 Eye and Ear Excellence Awards. She stands inbetween CEO Brendon Gardner and Board Chair Sherene Devanesen.

March 8, 2024 | News

International Women’s Day 2024

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we highlight some of the amazing work done by our Director, Partnerships,…

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- All Eye and Ear clinical services are located at 32 Gisborne Street An aerial image of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital of our Victoria Parade facing facade

February 6, 2024 | News, Patient information, Redevelopment

All Eye and Ear clinical services are located at 32 Gisborne Street

Exciting news! All Eye and Ear clinical services, including the Eye and Ear on the Park Pharmacy, are…

Read more - All Eye and Ear clinical services are located at 32 Gisborne Street

- You can help us save the vision and eyes of ocular cancer patients Dr Rod O'Day sitting at a slit lamp conversing with a patient

December 15, 2023 | News

You can help us save the vision and eyes of ocular cancer patients

Dr Rod O‘day is an Ophthalmologist at The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. We’re excited to share…

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- 2023 Excellence Awards Dr Birinder Giddey standing with Board Chair recipient Dr David Marty and Eye and Ear CEO Brendon Gardner

December 14, 2023 | News

2023 Excellence Awards

This week we presented the annual Excellence Awards during our 2022-2023 Annual General Meeting. The Excellence Awards are…

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- Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2.0 launched Our Innovate RAP 2.0 publications spread on a table that features healing stones, an indigenous pot and plant and the Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flag against a green CBD background

November 9, 2023 | News

Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2.0 launched

Today the Eye and Ear proudly launched our new Innovate RAP 2.0, which you can now read here….

Read more - Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2.0 launched

- Katie’s mission to raise funds for the Cochlear Impact Clinic continues Patient Katie and her Eye and Ear speech pathologist Denise Courtenay

October 25, 2023 | Events, Interviews, News, Patient Stories

Katie’s mission to raise funds for the Cochlear Impact Clinic continues

You may recall young cochlear implant patient Katie, who was profiled last year in our End of Financial…

Read more - Katie’s mission to raise funds for the Cochlear Impact Clinic continues

- Volunteers and Consumer Advisors make their mark Volunteer Peter Rushen wearing his red volunteering vest

| Interviews, News

Volunteers and Consumer Advisors make their mark

Most of you would be familiar with our kind, red-vested volunteers who donate their time to assisting patients…

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