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President Report 2015
Miss Victoria Law
President’s Report
It is my pleasure to report to the members on the past year’s activities of the Society. I would like to
thank the councilors and members who have contributed their effort and time to our Society’s mission
throughout the year.
At the AGM on 13th
March 2015, a new slate of councilors were elected (Table 1). We have established
committees taking charge of continuing education, public education, etc (see Table 2). We have re-
appointed Professor George Woo, Dr. May Wu and invited Professor Carly Lam as our honorary advisors.
Ms. Eman Kwong continues to serve as the person in charge of the Secretariat of the Society.
Table 1. Council Composition
President Miss Victoria Law
Vice-President Dr. Patrick Chu
Immediate Past President Mr. Jack Wong
Internal Secretary Dr. Jenny Lung
External Secretary Dr. Patrick Ting
Treasurer Dr. Forrest Ng
Councilors Miss Manki Chan
Miss Patti Chan
Mr. Bruce Chin
Mr. Peter Chung
Dr. Thomas Lam
Ms. Rita Sum
Dr. Gordon Tang
Ms. Cecilia Tong
Mr. Kelvin Wan
Mr. Herman Chan (Resigned)
Dr. Helen Eng (Resigned)
Table 2. Committees
Committees Group members
Continuing Education Dr. Patrick Ting (Committee Chair)
Miss Patti Chan
Dr. Helen Eng
Dr. Gordon Tang
Mr. Kelvin Wan
Public Education Miss Manki Chan(Committee Chair)
Mr. Kelvin Cheung Man Hei
Mr. Bruce Chin
Information Technology Dr. Gordon Tang(Committee Chair)
Dr. Thomas Lam
Mr. Peter Pang
Membership benefit Ms. Rita Sum (Committee Chair)
Mr. Herman Chan
Mr. Kenny Tam
Ms. Cecilia Tong
Publicity Dr. Jenny Lung (Committee Chair)
Dr. Geoffrey Chu Chin Hung
Mr. Peter Chung Chi Lik
Dr. Thomas Lam Chuen
Dr. Tomy Lo Ka Kin
1. Membership
There were 427 members in 2015, while 62 were new members. We invited Optometry
undergraduate students to join as student members through electronic registration. One hundred
and one students newly joined and we now have one hundred and thirteen student members in
total.
2. Continuing education
From March 2015, our Society organized six continuing education programs and the list is in table 3.
Table 3. CPD programs provided in 2015
Date Topic Speaker CPD hours
9 Jun 2015 Elderly vision and Health Care Voucher
Scheme
Dr. Allen Cheong
Dr. Helen Eng
2
24 July 2015 Orthokeratology: Past, Present and
Future
Prof. Helen A
Swarbrick
1.5
18 Aug 2015 Blue light hazards: What an ophthalmic
practitioner needs to know
Dr. Chea-Su Kee
Dr. Jeffery Leung
1.5
10 – 11 Sept 2015
(With TVCI)
Innovating for multifocal fitting success:
Meeting the needs of the ageing eye
Dr. Kurt Moody 1
Clinical pearls of successful multifocal
contact lens practice
Mr. Daven Ngai 1
Common ocular disorders in middle age
and beyond
Dr. Vincent Ng
Miss Cheuk-wing Lee
1
30 Sep 2015 Childhood strabismus and its relations
with refractive error
Dr. Jane Yeung 1
13 Oct 2015 My top-ten: Hospital-based specialty
contact lens practice cases
Prof. Barry A.
Weissman
1
17 Dec 2015 Drivers and seafarers vision Mr. Peter Pang
Dr. Gordon Tang
Dr. Helen Eng
1.5
In addition, our Society will jointly host the 10th
Asia Cornea and Contact Lens Conference (ACCLC)
with The Eye Foundation, The Hong Kong Association of Private Practice Optometrist (APPO), The Hong
Kong Polytechnic University School of Optometry and Hong Kong Contact Lens Research Association. It
will take place from 28th
and 29th
April 2016 at Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East, Tseng Kwan O.
We have invited speakers from the US, the UK and Australia in addition to several local guest speakers.
There will also be oral and poster presentations by delegates from different countries. 10 hours of CPD
are provided by this two day conference.
3. Public education
i. Promotion of World Sight Day
A press conference was held on 29th
Sept 2015 for promoting World Sight Day with APPO, The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Optometry. The theme of this year was “School
Health”, in particular school myopia. There were about 15 TV and newspaper coverages.
Following on the successful event, a steering committee was formed to plan further activities.
Our Vice President (Dr. Patrick Chu) will participate in the steering committee.
ii. Services to the communities
Three vision screenings were carried out in the community and listed in table 4. Besides, letters
have been sent out to district councils requesting them to host public talks on eye care by our
members in order to increase public awareness on eye health.
Table 4. Vision Screenings
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Co-organizer The Lions of Wan Chai, Hong
Kong
沙田區議會衛生及環境委
員會
中西區區議會醫療衛生
及復康服務工作小組
Date and
time
7 June 2015;
10:00am to 5:00pm
12 July 2015;
1:30pm to 5:00pm
29 – 30 August 2015
10:00am to 1:00pm
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Venue Leighton Hill Community Hall Shatin Town Hall Plaza Smithfield Sports Centre,
6/F Smithfield Municipal
Services Building
Screening
activities
1. Amsler grid test
2. Non-contact
tonometry
3. VA
4. Visual field screening
(machine provided by
HKSB)
5. Consultation
6. Talk
1. Amsler grid test
2. Dry Eye OSDI
Questionnaire
3. UV Transmission
Meter
4. Demonstration of
UV and blue-ray
filtering lens
1. Amsler grid test
2. Non-contact
tonometry
3. VA
No. of
participants
158 200 350
Volunteers 1. Prof. George Woo
2. Miss Victoria Law
3. Miss Manki Chan
4. Mr. Norton Chan
5. Dr. Allen Cheong
6. Dr. Helen Eng
7. Dr. Julia Li
8. Dr. Tomy Lo
9. Miss Rachel Wong
10. Miss Cannie Lam
1. Miss Victoria Law
2. Miss Manki Chan
3. Miss Patti Chan
4. Miss Heidi Chan
5. Dr. Helen Eng
6. Ms. Josephine
Hung
7. Dr. Tomy Lo
8. Mr. Humphrey
Cheung
1. Miss Victoria
Law
2. Dr. Patrick Chu
3. Miss Manki Chan
4. Mr. Bruce Chin
5. Mr. Kelvin
Cheung
6. Mr. Dennis
Cheung
7. Miss Hanglee Ho
8. Miss Flora Lee
9. Dr. Tomy Lo
10. Miss Ling Ling
Tsoi
Vision screening at Leighton Hill Community Hall
Vision screening in Sha Tin
Vision screening in Central Western District
4. Professional issues
i. Open Forum on Health Care Related Issues
Our Treasure, Dr. Forrest Ng and our councilor Miss Manki Chan attended an Open Forum on
Health Care Related Issues organized by Prof. Hon Joseph Lee Kok Long on 14 July 2015.
Concerns included sales of over the counter contact lens and the enhancement of student
health service on eye health. These issues were brought to Dr. Ko Wing Man’s, Secretary for
Food and Health Bureau, attention.
Open forum discussion with Prof. Hon Joseph and Dr. Ko Wing Man.
ii. Sales of over the counter contact lens
Having noted the sales of these lenses at Watsons, Aeon and Yata stores, we have written
letters to express our concern. The letters were copied to Dr. Ko Wing Man, Prof. Maurice Yap,
Prof Lee Kok Long, and the medical device office.
iii. Steering committee on strategic review on healthcare manpower planning and professional
development
The University of Hong Kong has completed a project in projecting demand and supply for the
healthcare professionals in HK. In the projection, a large gap in demand and supply for
optometrists was predicted. There was concern on the age profiles of optometrists and the
possible impact of the coming retirement wave on the supply of optometrists in the private
sector.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong has done a review in professional regulatory frameworks
for healthcare professionals. There are 5 key recommendations by the Chinese University of
Hong Kong and HKSPO agrees on those recommendations
1. The law needs reviewing and the Ordinance needs updating as a matter of urgency
2. Professional regulation to maintain professional standards should be reviewed
3. Compulsory CPD should be implemented with the support of the professions and the
public
4. Lay membership on regulatory bodies should be reviewed
5. Profession specific issues including allow each Board to develop its specialty, remove the
need for referral by a physician to allow health professionals to practice primary care,
review Pharmacy & Poisons Ordinance to allow limited rights of prescribing to Allied
Health Professionals and review the Ordinance of SMPC.
iv. IVE Higher diploma in Optometric Support Service
The higher diploma course is being launched in Sept 2016. Meetings with VTC program
lecturers were held on 16 Dec 2015, 7 Jan 2016 and 19 Jan 2016. In the meetings, the VTC
program lecturers explained that the aim of the course is to train their students to be assistants
who are going to work in hospitals, ophthalmologist or optometrist clinics. Also, they stressed
that VTC does not have any intention to apply for possible registration to the Optometrist
Board. A more detailed account of HKSPO’s view on the IVE course will be reported to you at
the AGM.
v. The E-Health record
E-health record will be launched in March 2016 in Hospital Authority (HA) and Department of
Health (DH). The main purpose for e-health record is for clinical data on patients in the public
sector to be available to private practitioners’ clinics. A meeting was held with Dr. Andrew Lam,
HA and DH Optometrists to collect opinions on 21 Dec 2015. A document was prepared and
sent to the Bureau on 15 January 2016. Inside the document, we requested optometrists to
have access to all patient data in HA and DH. The proposed community-based e-health
recording system will be launched in 2017-18.
5. Communication
The new HKSPO website was launched. Starting from March 2015, there were over 40,000 visits
already. In the new website, additional features under member’s area included Archives (past
minutes and newsletter) and Notice Board were added. Also, members could apply CE course via
the website directly.
Moreover, a Facebook closed group for members only was started which include recruitment
information, information sharing among members and Society news. This closed group also served
as a channel to deliver and exchange information among members
6. Publicity
HKSPO newsletter service “Hong Kong Optometry” has resumed publication since 2013. It not only
aims at providing society news to our members, but also promoting our society to all Part I
optometrists, our alumni and other professional organizations.
Different professionals including academic staff, researchers, ophthalmologists, allied health and
industry professionals were invited to write for our newsletter. It provides a platform for the
exchange of the updated information in different fields.
With the generous support from different companies, hard copies of the newsletter are available to
all Part I optometrists. Softcopies were posted on the society Facebook and official website.
Three more issues are scheduled to be published before March 2017.
7. Members benefits
In the last year, our committees kept searching for different membership benefits for our members.
Sixteen different companies and clinics agreed to provide special offers of their services to our
members and family. The lists were uploaded to HKSPO homepage for our members’ reference.
In addition, a cue card with the norms on general health and binocular vision is available to all
HKSPO members and student members. We hope to provide some tools which are useful for
primary eye care. We plan to make cue cards in other areas. Stay tuned!
8. The 20th
Asia Pacific Optometric Congress (APOC)
On behalf of HKSPO, I attended the Asia Pacific Council of Optometry General Delegates Meeting in
Kuala Lumpur between 9 and 11 Oct 2015. At the delegates meeting, I was elected an Executive
Committee Member of the Council. In addition, I became a regional member of the Public Health
Committee of the World Council of Optometry. The theme of the conference was “Optometry:
Advancing Eye Health”. Scholars from a number of Asian countries, the US and the UK delivered
presentations on topics related to the role of optometrists in primary eye care, visual impairment,
diabetic retinopathy, ocular inflammation and corneal oxygen. Our honorary advisor Prof. George
Woo also had a poster presentation on “A pilot study on bilberry extract supplements for
symptomatic dry eyes” with Dr. Lily Chan.
9. Meeting with other associations
1. Our councilor Ms. Manki Chan attended the 115 to 118th Council meetings of the Federation of
Medical Societies of Hong Kong on behalf of our Society.
2. Prof. George Woo, Dr. Allen Cheong and I attended the AGM meeting of Hong Kong Federation
of Societies for Prevention of Blindness on 29th
Dec 2015.
10. Upcoming Activities
1. HKSPO Spring dinner will be held on 22nd
March 2016 in the Intercontinental Grand Stanford
Hotel Hong Kong.
2. Fun fair to celebrate the 20th
Anniversary of the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences with
the Federation of Medical Societies of Hong Kong on 16-17 April 2016
11. Closing
I would like to express my profound gratitude to all the council members and the working group
members for all their contributions in the last year.