Combination Therapy in Myopia: Does One Plus One Equal Two?

Philip Cheng graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2003 and founded Eyecare Concepts | The Myopia Clinic in Melbourne in 2017 with a key clinical focus in myopia management, orthokeratology and specialty contact lenses. Renowned in the myopia management space, he has presented globally and written extensively for industry publications. He has attained the International Academy Certificate in Myopia Management (IACMM) and Fellowship of the International Academy of Orthokeratology and Myopia Control (FIAOMC).

Dr. Li-Lian Foo is Head and Clinical Director of the Myopia Service at the Singapore National Eye Centre and Clinical Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. She specialises in childhood myopia control, refractive surgery, and clinical innovation. Actively involved in research and education, she leads regional training initiatives across Asia-Pacific and contributes to advancing precision medicine in paediatric myopia care.

Tim Fricke is an optometrist, researcher and international development practitioner, and is currently Director Research and Education at the Australian College of Optometry and National Vision Research Institute, Australia. He has held clinical, teaching, research, management and leadership roles in private, public, community health, hospital and refugee camp settings, including Director of the Brien Holden Foundation. He has extensive paediatric clinical experience, supervised post-graduate research in paediatric eye care and health economics, taught undergraduate and post-graduate eye care courses, and provided continuing professional development across Australia and internationally. He has researched vision development, epidemiology, quality of life and access to eye care, and assisted the development of local systems and skills for providing primary and specialised eye care in a range of countries including Vietnam, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, and Tanzania. He is an honorary senior fellow at the University of Melbourne, and has recently completed a PhD in ophthalmic epidemiology at UNSW Sydney. 

Prior to joining ZEISS as Head, Global Myopia Management in 2023, Professor Sankaridurg was Head of the Myopia Program and Head of Intellectual Property at the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Sydney, Australia. She is a Conjoint Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She participated as an expert at the WHO-BHVI global meeting of myopia, 2015 , an advisory board member of the International Myopia Institute until 2023 and chaired task forces on white papers. She is a council member of the International Society for Contact Lens Research. Her research interests include refractive error development and progression, myopia management, strategies to control myopia, contact lenses and the economic burden of myopia.