A/Prof. Colin Chan shortlisted for major photography award
Dr Colin Chan has been shortlisted for the Australian Photography Awards in the Wildlife category. A keen amateur bird and wildlife...
Can I have laser eye surgery if I have dry eye?
Yes, you can and what is important is that your degree of dry eye is properly assessed and managed by your laser eye surgeon and factored...
A/Prof. Colin Chan in Mongolia
Mongolia is not on most people’s travel itineraries but A/Prof. Colin Chan had a very special purpose in visiting there recently. As the...
Recovery after laser eye surgery
Laser eye surgery, whether it be LASIK, SMILE or ASLA (PRK), does not have instantaneous full recovery no matter what you may have heard....
Does having laser eye surgery affect cataract surgery in later life?
One of the concerns my patients raise with having laser eye surgery, is that it may prevent them having required cataract surgery when...
Why do people have laser eye surgery?
"What made you think about having laser eye surgery?" That's a question I have now asked several thousand times. And it's fascinating to...
Nothing hides forever
For most of us, the shape of our eyes stops changing some time in our 20s much like our body stops growing. That then begs the obvious...
Surface laser/PRK: Old dog, new tricks?
PRK or surface laser was the original form of laser eye surgery in the early 1990s. It is still one of the 3 common forms of corrective...
A/Prof. Colin Chan teaching in Vietnam
A/Prof. Colin Chan recently traveled to Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam as an organiser and participant in the inaugural APAO Satellite...
How do you become an eye surgeon or ophthalmologist?
I quite frequently get asked by my patients … so how do you become an ophthalmologist or eye surgeon? I find it a bit bemusing that many...
