Dr Nigel Morlet (Ophthalmologist)
- Name
- Dr Nigel Morlet
- Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery 1981
- FRACS 1994
- FRANZCO 1994
- Occupation
- Ophthalmologist
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- Ophthalmology
- Phone
- 08 99658874
Dr Morlet (MBBS FRANZCO FRACS) is Medical Director of Western Eye Specialists, with training in general ophthalmology, cataract surgery, and oculoplastics and advanced training corneal and external disease.
His surgical interests include complex cataract cases, eyelid and lacrimal surgery, as well as corneal surgery. As a consultant surgeon to New Vision, he performs laser refractive surgery. He is a consultant ophthalmologist at Royal Perth Hospital, and has appointments at St John of God Hospital, and the Eye Surgery Foundation.
Dr Morlet is a Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Population Health, University of WA, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, Curtin University. His current area of research is in the area of ophthalmic clinical epidemiology, and has published widely including in the New England Journal of Medicine. His other main research focus is in inventing and developing a number of surgical technologies on the market today, currently he is a medical director at OzSonotek Pty Ltd. With collaborative research he is a co-investigator in studies with the Lions Eye Institute WA, and Save Sight Institute, NSW, and Centre of Eye Research, Victoria.
