Academic Profile & Teaching

A/Prof Smita Agarwal is passionate, committed and actively involved in the teaching and mentoring of other medical professionals and students.

Smita teaches medical registrars and interns at public hospitals, and regularly conducts medical education and professional development seminars for doctors and optometrists on other occasions.

 

She has been involved in teaching eye surgery, including cataract surgery, to ophthalmology registrars at Westmead Eye Hospital in Sydney and Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne.

See listed below detail of her former and current teaching and supervisory roles and responsibilities.

Academic Positions

  • Current: Clinical Associate Professor, GSM, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2500 Australia
  • Current: Senior Clinical Lecturer, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

Teaching and Supervisory Experience

  • 2016 – Current: Education Seminars for General Practitioners, South Coast Medical Forum & University of Wollongong
  • 2016 – Current: Ophthalmology Workshop, GSM, UOW
  • 2011 – Current: Optometrists Education Evening (biannual event) Wollongong and Nowra Consulting Rooms
  • 2007 – Current: Supervising Graduate Medical Students in private rooms, Wollongong & Nowra Private Rooms

Academic Lecture Commitments

  • 2014 – Current: Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong
  • 2009 – Current: Wollongong Public Hospital
  • 2021: Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney
  • 2009 – 2010: Westmead Public Hospital

Tutoring Graduate Medical Students

  • 2007 – Current: Wollongong and Nowra Private Rooms
  • 2007 – 2010: Supervising and Teaching Senior Ophthalmology Registrars (Clinical & Surgery), Westmead Eye Hospital, Westmead
  • 2004 – 2006: Supervising and Teaching Ophthalmology Registrars (Clinical & Surgery), Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne VIC
  • 2003 – 2006: Supervising and Teaching Medical Registrars, Residents and Students (Clinical & Surgery), Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne VIC

Committees, Assignments and Ambassador Duties

  • 2023 – Current: Member of the MAC Committee, VSPH
  • 2018 – 2023: Member of Medical Advisory Committee, Wollongong Day Surgery
  • 2018 – 2023: Member of Medical Advisory Committee, Wollongong Private Hospital
  • 2018 – 2023: Medical Advisory Board Committee, Alcon
  • 2011 – 2017: JulEye Ambassador (RANZCO)