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FEATURE<br />
Australia Day Honours 2016<br />
AMA (NSW) would like to congratulate its members<br />
who received honours on Australia Day…<br />
OFFICER (AO) IN THE<br />
GENERAL DIVISION<br />
Professor Minas Theodore Coroneo<br />
Vaucluse, NSW<br />
For distinguished service to<br />
ophthalmology, to the research and<br />
development of innovative surgical<br />
technologies and devices, and to<br />
eye health in regional and Indigenous<br />
communities.<br />
Honourable Dr Brendan John Nelson<br />
Bowral, NSW<br />
For distinguished service to the<br />
Parliament of Australia, to the community,<br />
to the advancement of Australia’s<br />
international relations, and to major<br />
cultural institutions.<br />
MEMBER (AM) IN THE<br />
GENERAL DIVISION<br />
Dr Jay Chandra, NSW<br />
For significant service to medicine in the<br />
field of ophthalmology as a clinician, and<br />
to the international community through<br />
eye care programs.<br />
Dr Paul Raymond Mara,<br />
Gundagai NSW<br />
For significant service to medicine,<br />
particularly through the recruitment and<br />
retention of medical practitioners in rural<br />
and remote areas.<br />
Dr Lyon Phillip Robinson,<br />
Bellevue Hill, NSW<br />
For significant service to medicine,<br />
particularly as a pioneer in the field of<br />
ophthalmic surgery.<br />
MEDAL (OAM) IN THE<br />
GENERAL DIVISION<br />
Dr William John Houston Paradice,<br />
Scone, NSW<br />
For service to the community, particularly<br />
as a general practitioner. dr.<br />
The Hon Jillian Skinner, NSW<br />
Minister for Health, has appointed<br />
Dr Robyn Napier as a member<br />
of the NSW Board of the Medical<br />
Board of Australia.<br />
The appointment is made under<br />
the Health Practitioner Regulation<br />
National Law.<br />
AMA (NSW) congratulates Robyn<br />
on her appointment and wishes her<br />
well in her deliberations during her<br />
term of office.<br />
Dr Jay Chandra celebrated<br />
the 10th anniversary of his<br />
organisation The Fiji Eye<br />
Project in July 2015.<br />
“We have now operated on close to<br />
1000 cases from 2006 to 2015. Almost<br />
85% of the cataracts were operated<br />
on by the modern technique of<br />
phacoemulsification with rapid recovery<br />
of visual function,” Dr Chandra said.<br />
In his years of volunteer work, Dr<br />
Chandra said there have been many<br />
special moments. He recalled operating<br />
on one patient who only had light<br />
perception vision in both eyes due to<br />
bilateral hypermature cataracts. After<br />
surgery, she saw her two grandchildren<br />
for the first time.<br />
“Her tears of joy moved us all,” he said.<br />
8 I THE NSW DOCTOR I MARCH/APRIL 2016