Flora graduated from The University of Melbourne with a Doctor of Optometry and has completed further training at The State University of New York. Flora is therapeutically endorsed by Optometry Australia to prescribe medication to treat a range of eye diseases, she is a member of Cornea and Contact Lens Society of Australia and Australian College of Behavioral Optometrists.
Flora has a broad range of experience as she has worked in optometry practices and hospitals throughout Australia and overseas. She has been actively involved in the clinical education of Optometry students at the Australian College of Optometry.
Flora’s passion for helping others motivated her to volunteer overseas as an Optometrist. She has travelled to Laos, China, Cambodia, Nepal and rural indigenous Australian communities to prescribe and provide accessible eye care to disadvantaged communities as well as working with local health professionals to improve their provision of quality eye care.
Flora has a special interest in dry eye, ocular diseases, specialty contact lenses including ortho-keratology and myopia control. She also has a special interest in children’s vision which involves improving a child’s binocular vision and visual processing systems.