Mortimer
Hirst is delighted to welcome Optometrist Emilie Langley to the clinical team.
Emilie has worked part time for Mortimer Hirst over the past two year and has
recently joined us full time. Emilie is a Therapeutically Qualified Optometrist
and works from both High Street and St Heliers practices.
Emilie completed a Bachelor of Biomedical
Science majoring in Functional Human Biology, studying at the University
of Otago. The neurophysiology that Emilie was
exposed to during the biomedical degree along with Emilie’s passion for working
with and helping people were the driving forces to further study Optometry.
Emilie then completed her second degree, Bachelor
of Optometry with Honours and Ocular Therapeutics, from the Department of Optometry
and Vision Science (DOVS), University of Auckland.
Emilie
tailored her Optometry studies around her interest in myopia progression and
Orthokeratology (OrthoK).
In 2011, Emilie was chosen to be
part of the Antipodeans Abroad Healthcare Volunteer Team to Nepal. This
included Rural Outreach clinics and a 6 week internship at Manipal Teaching
Hospital, Optometry and Ophthalmology Department, Pokhara, Nepal.
In 2012,
Emilie was awarded a summer studentship scholarship from the New Zealand
Association of Optometrists (NZAO) to help further research the theory of
myopia progression inhibition, which her results are contributing to a paper
that is soon to be published.
In 2014, Emilie was part of a team
that completed leading research on OrthoK regression, supervised by Grant
Watters and Dr. Wanda Lam, which won a New Zealand College of Optometrists
(NZCO) award.
