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  • Restoring Sight: The Journey to Treat Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration

    As Leonardo da Vinci noted, our senses are the ministers of the soul—none more vital to daily connection than vision. While common conditions like myopia (1.4 billion people) and cataracts (100 million people) are routinely treated with lenses or surgery, retina-damaging diseases remain a major global challenge. At a recent Mosman Rotary meeting, club member…

  • Monica Prague speaks with Rotary about Mercy Ships

    Two thirds of the world’s population has no readily accessible medical and surgical care. That’s where Mercy Ships come in. This international non-governmental organisation (NGO) operates the world’s largest civilian hospital ships to provide free, life-changing surgical care and medical training in developing nations, primarily across sub-Saharan Africa where so many of the population lacks…

  • Mayors visit Rotary

    Cr Ann Marie Kimber, Mayor of Mosman, spoke to club members this week. She shared some details of her background and how she came to be the Mayor as part of a wider talk on life lessons in leadership. Ann Marie sees leadership as having courage and grit when making hard decisions. It involves listening…

  • Noel Phelan, The Navy at Gallipoli

    Noel Phelan is a Team Leader at the Australian National Maritime Museum and has had a close connection with the water all his life. His first career was as a science anaboutd mathematics teacher before he joined IBM as a systems engineer spending 25 years in various technical and management positions. Noel is a Past…