CERA / ALCON Visiting Professor Lectures - Professor Bob Casson - Monday 10 August (University of Melbourne)

The next CERA / ALCON Visiting Professor lecture will be held on Monday 10 August 2015.

Professor Robert (Bob) Casson AM MBBS (Hons), DPhil, FRANZCO is the Head of the Discipline of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Adelaide University. He is an internationally recognised ophthalmic clinician/scientist with special interests in glaucoma, neuroprotection, ophthalmic epidemiology and translational ophthalmic research.

He graduated with Honours from Adelaide Medical School in 1992 and undertook ophthalmology specialty training in South Australia. He completed subspecialty training in glaucoma at the Oxford Eye Hospital. Following the completion of clinical training, he was awarded a highly competitive scholarship to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) at Oxford University in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology. He studied aspects of ocular neuroscience, with particular relevance to glaucoma, ischaemic retinopathies and bioenergertic neuroprotection.

After completion of the DPhil in 2004 he returned to Australia and established the South Australian Institute of Ophthalmology (SAIO), including the Ophthalmic Research Laboratory co-located with Neuropathology in the Hanson Institute.  In 2011 he received a meritorious promotion to full professor at Adelaide University. In 2012, he completed a Masters of Biostatics at Adelaide University.

During the visit ​B​ob will be giving 2 lectures :

1)    Lunchtime lecture: 1.00pm, Lucy Jones Hall, ​, Eye & Ear Hospital​​

(Light lunch from 12.30pm) Topic: Metabolic Neuroprotection

2)    Twilight lecture: 6.00pm, Ringland Anderson Seminar Room​, Eye & Ear Hospital​

(Drinks & nibbles from 5.15pm) Topic: The Cancer-like Metabolism of the Mammalian Retina

​Please RSVP attendance only to Ms Val Scaf (vscaf@unimelb.edu.au)​.  Flyer with details here.