Professor H. Barry Collin, AM, PhD (Melb), DSc (NSW),
Hon. DUniv (QUT), FRCPath (Lond), FAAO
University of New South Wales, Australia

Professor Barry Collin, an optometrist and pathologist, is currently an Emeritus Professor of the University of New South Wales, an Honorary Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Clinical and Experimental Optometry.

From 1982 to 1992, Professor Collin was Head of the School of Optometry at the University of New South Wales. He has also held appointments at The University of Melbourne, the University of Auckland (NZ), Oxford University (UK), the Retina Foundation and Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

He has more than 170 publications, mostly on ocular pathology and ultrastructure and has presented more than 450 lectures at Australian and International conferences.

Professor Collin has received numerous awards and honours, including the International Optical League Medal, the Shorney Prize for Research in Ophthalmology, the ‘HB Collin Research Medal’ of the Optometrists Association Australia, the Vice-Chancellor's Medal for Teaching Excellence at the University of New South Wales and he is a Member of the Order of Australia.

Title: “The Clinical Picture and Mechanisms of Age-related Maculopathy”