Our Team
Optometrist:
Ms Jennifer Currie
Practice Manager / Optical Dispenser:
Mr Ray Smith
Optical Dispenser:
Mrs Verinia White
Reception/Optical Assistant:
Mrs Georgie Sivyer-McDonald
Optometrist:
Ms Jennifer Currie
Jenny graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1984 & proceeded to enjoy a broad range of work experience in Melbourne, Newcastle & the USA. She has earned Fellowships with the Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists (ACBO) & the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) & the Australian College of Optometry (ACO).
A Queenslander by birth, Jenny returned to the Sunshine Coast in 1993 & has been working in the area ever since. In January 2008 Jenny joined colleague Heather McLeod in a business partnership to form optometry@cooroy. She is married with two now adult step-children.
Jenny most enjoys the varied practice that Cooroy provides with the opportunity to help patients of all ages. She has decades of experience in general optometry, contact lens practice (including an area of speciality contact lens fitting - Orthokeratology) & children’s vision care including assessment & treatment of learning-related vision problems & binocular vision dysfunction. More recently she has developed an interest in and receives referrals for optometric treatment (including lenses, prisms, neurological filters & vision therapy) for vision problems related to Acquired Brain Injury including Post-Concussion Vision Syndrome. She is in the process of acquiring Certification in Neuro-optometric Vision Care (ANOC) and should complete this process later in 2024.
In late 2019 Jenny completed studies for the Graduate Certificate in Ocular Therapeutics with the Australian College of Optometry in Melbourne. She is now qualified to prescribe a range of topical ocular pharmaceuticals for the treatment of eye disease and is enjoying the expanded range of optometric practice this allows.
Jenny is a keen bicycle tourist & has clocked up thousands of km’s touring parts of Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Europe including the Danube & with her husband Ray, the classic UK End to End ride from Lands End in Cornwall at the bottom to John O' Groats in Scotland at the top. The couple have stayed closer to home in the last few years enjoying the multiple trails of Central Otago in New Zealand & the Kilkivan to Kingaroy & Brisbane Valley Rails Trails.
Jenny founded the Sunshine Coast Bicycle Touring Club in 1994. The club has since grown to more than 200 members.
At present, Jenny is available for consultation 5 days a week: Monday to Friday.
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