Presentations & Speaking Roles
As an active and highly regarded member of the ophthalmic industry, A/Prof Agarwal is regularly asked to present, speak, and act as a panellist at Australian and global conferences and meetings, on a wide range of topics.
See a selection of these listed below.
In addition, as the Medical Director of both Wollongong Eye Specialists and the Wollongong Refractive Laser Eye Institute, she bi-annually hosts and presents professional education CPD Seminars for General Practitioners and Optometrists within her region.
2025
- Invited Speaker: 3 papers list below ; ASCRS Los Angeles April 2025
- Ocular Changes Following Phacoemulsification and IOL Implantation with and without Active Sentry Using Centurion Machine
- Rotational Stability of Clareon Panoptix Toric IOL
- Outcomes of Monocular PresbyLASIK Using Presbymax Platform
- Winner of the Film Festival: SMILE® : A Game Changer! ; ASCRS Los Angeles April 2025
- Invited Speaker & Panelist: Focus Alcon Symposium, Sydney 2025
- Invited Speaker & Panelist: ZEISS Horizon Meeting; Seoul, June 2025
2024
- Invited Speaker: Ngenuity 1.5; Sydney October 2024
- Invited Speaker: Surgical Arena ESCRS; Barcelona: September 2024
- Invited Speaker: JCRO Symposium (Editors Pick of published article); ESCRS; Barcelona: September 2024
- Invited Panellist: Zeiss Beyond Event (digitalisation in Ophthalmology); ESCRS: Barcelona 2024
- Film on Innovative Solution to remove Epithelial Cells Ingrowth was accepted to the Film Festival; AUSCRS: Hamilton Island 2024
- Presented Paper: Early experience with normal IOP cataract surgery; AUSCRS: Hamilton Island 2024
- Invited Speaker: PresbyMAX in presbyopes too young for RLE using monocular profile; My personal experience; Schwind User Meeting; AUSCRS: Hamilton Island 2024
- Invited Speaker and Host: Turning the Frown Upside Down: Dealing with difficult SMILE® cases; Zeiss User Meeting; AUSCRS: Hamilton Island 2024
- Invited Speaker: NSW Branch RANZCO meeting; Real life cataract management: Newcastle; April 2024
- Speaker: ASCRS Winner of the Runner Up Trophy in Film Festival for new technique to remove epithelial cells with self-designed Smita’s Epithelial Cell Curette: Boston April 2024
- Panellist, Chair, Speaker and Steering Committee Member; Alcon Focus Symposium: Sydney March 2024
- Invited Speaker: CTLucia Outcomes; Zeiss Roadshow: Brisbane March 2024
- Invited Presenter: Outcomes of PresbyLASIK using the Monocular-Profile; Schwind User Meeting: Dubai, UAE February 2024
- Invited speaker: Presbyopia solution; Schwind User Meeting: Dubai 2024
- Wollongong Eye Specialists Optometrists Education Evening held bi-annually since 2011: Wollongong and Nowra
- South Coast Medical Forum held annually since 2016: University of Wollongong
2023
- Chair: Presbyopia Unlocked Course at RANZCO conference: Perth October 2023
- Presentation: Presbyopia Symposium at RANZCO: Perth 2023
- Panellist and Speaker (Alcon Symposium) AUSCRS conference: Port Douglas July 2023
- Speaker and Presentation: Early Results on a new monofocal non-constant aberration Intraocular lens; AUSCRS: Port Douglas July 2023
2022
- Pod-Ophthalmology: RANZCO Conference: Brisbane October 2022
- Panellist and Invited Speaker: Focus Alcon Meeting: Brisbane 18th June 2022
- Panellist and Invited Speaker: Focus Alcon Meeting: Sydney 4th June 2022
- Podcast for Alcon on Presbyopia Correction Intraocular Lenses: April 2022
- Chair: Breakfast for Alcon Presbyopia Breakfast Meeting at 52nd RANZCO Virtual Congress: February 2022
2021
- Panellist for Topcon SCC Online Series: Glaucoma and the Anterior Eye: Glaucoma: Not Silent Always: October 2021
- Invited Speaker: APAC VIVITY® User Meeting: October 2021
- Invited Speaker: Glaukos Webinar Education: Istent inject W in a cataract refractive practice: September 2021
- Member of the Alcon Clareon Advisory Board Meeting: September 2021
2020
- Speaker and Virtual Presentation: Early results with PresbyLASIK using Schwind PresbyMAX for the treatment of presbyopia, ESCRS: Amsterdam 2020
2019
- Invited Speaker RANZCO Symposium: 20 Years down the track with Refractive Surgery Judgement Day: November 2019
- Speaker and Presentation: Research Paper Cataract Category; APACRS: Kyoto October 2019
- Speaker and Presentation: Oleep Specsavers: August 2019
- Speaker and Presentation: AUSCRS: Queenstown July 2019
- Invited Speaker: Zeiss Visumax User Meeting: Queenstown July 2019
- Invited Speaker: DR Insight Education Meeting: June 2019
- Invited Speaker: Alcon Focus Symposium: Brisbane 2019
2018
- American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (ASCRS): USA 2018
- Alcon Sales Meetings Representative: 2018
- Glaukos Meeting – MIGS: 2018