Wilfred Tang

Wilfred is a Senior Lecturer of the UWA Doctor of Optometry course. Since joining UWA in early 2020, he has been involved in designing, planning, implementing and teaching in the program. Wilfred is driving the UWA initiatives to provide final year optometry students with hands-on experiences of delivering eye health services within an Aboriginal Medical Service in the South-West of WA, after completing a similar project in the Mid-West of WA in 2023. Wilfred is a therapeutically endorsed optometrist. In 2024, Wilfred is appointed as a Sessional Member to the State Administrative Tribunal (WA). He has over 13 years of high-level clinical exposures to managing complex eye diseases and surgeries at the public eye clinic at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Prior to joining UWA, he led the optometry program in Singapore. Wilfred graduated from The University of Melbourne in 1991, and completed his PhD from QUT in 2001. He holds a Master of Public Health degree from UWA and a post-graduate qualification in ocular therapeutics from UNSW. Wilfred is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.