Ms Rebecca Dang

Ms Rebecca Dang

Lecturer
  • Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy, 2023
  • Masters of Optometry, UNSW Sydney, 2020
  • B Optometry/B Science (Hons), UNSW Sydney, 2014
Medicine & Health
School of Optometry and Vision Science

I'm an optometrist and education-focussed lecturer with a focus on paediatrics and myopia control at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW. I co-convene the paediatrics component of clinical teaching at the UNSW Optometry Clinic and also teach into multiple undergraduate courses. I'm currently undertaking a PhD investigating the predictive factors in the control of progressive myopia with multifocal contact lenses supervised by Dr Pauline Kang, Professor Isabelle Jalbert and Dr Alex Hui.

  • Development and Research Training Grant, UNSW, 2022
  • Australian government Research training program scholarship, 2017

Research Groups

  • Higher Degree Research Candidate Representative (2022 – present)
  • Junior Representative for Clinical Experimental Optometry (2022 – present) 
  • Secretary for Executive Committee, Optometry Student Society (2014)
  • Sub-committee for continuing education in Young Optometrists (2019-2021)