Dr Michael Forrest MBBS, BMedSc(Dist), FRANZCO
Michael Forrest graduated from the University of Queensland in 1994, and was awarded the Charles Ferdinand Marks & Elizabeth Gray Marks Prize and the Mayne Undergraduate Scholarship. He did the research for his Bachelor of Medical Science at the University of Bologna in Italy, and has had an interest in Italian language and literature ever since. He trained as an Ophthalmologist at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, and at the PA Hospital, RBH and RCH, Mater Hospitals and Greenslopes Private Hospital in Queensland.
He did further sub-specialty fellowship training for two years in the UK at the Gloucestershire Eye Unit (cataract surgery, glaucoma and strabismus surgery), and at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London (paediatric cataract and glaucoma surgery, strabismus surgery and paediatric neuro-ophthalmology).
Dr Forrest has a private practice at Northside Eye Specialists, Sandgate Road, Nundah. He is a Visiting Ophthalmologist at the Mater Hospitals and has been Chairperson of the Department of Ophthalmology there since 2007. He has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland since 2004, is involved in specialist registrar training and medical student teaching, and has been a Graduate Medical Course Interviewer for the last 12 years. He has a research interest in retinopathy of prematurity, a leading cause of blindness in newborns.His special interests are cataract surgery and strabismus surgery. He regularly attends national and international conferences, and keeps up to date with the latest technological advances and surgical developments in these areas. He is a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.
