The Primary Eye Care team
Primary Eye Care has provided friendly, professional eye care since 2003. The Burwood practice combines optometry, orthoptics, optical dispensing and fashion eyewear advice, with particular interest in children's vision, sports vision and full-scope care for visually demanding work and study.
Clinical specialists
Experienced practitioners supporting patients across Burwood and the wider Inner West.
Pierre Elmurr
Pierre graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Orthoptics from the University of Sydney in 1992. He obtained a Masters in exercise and sports science by research in 1995 assessing the eye movement patterns of table tennis players. Pierre held the title of honorary research associate at The University of Sydney prior to entering into private practice in 1999. His clinical interest's in private practice includes sports vision, paediatrics and rehabilitation. For the past 30 years, Pierre has conducted research assessing the role of vision training in aiding athletic performance. He has developed a scientific approach to vision training for athletes and his model is utilised globally by eye care practitioners and sports scientist. Pierre is the sports vision consultant to the New South Wales Institute of Sport and numerous state and national sporting teams in Australia and overseas. Pierre is the inventor of the Sports Vision Trainer (SVT™) a scientific instrument used to test and train eye hand coordination and decision-making skills.
Caroline Kwan
Caroline completed a Bachelor of Optometry degree at The University of New South Wales in 1994. She began her career working in a private practice in country NSW, then Canberra, before settling in Sydney and has been the principal optometrist for Primary Eye Care in Mona Vale since 2004. Caroline enjoys a close professional relationship with local ophthalmologists and medical practitioners. She has spent time on radio on a talk-back program called "All About Eyes" as well as performing domiciliary visits to local nursing homes. Her main interests are contact lenses and ocular aged-care but welcomes all challenges. In her down-time, she is enthusiastically active in her Christian community and particularly loves the outdoors. Her main language is English but she is also able to speak Cantonese.
Derek Chu
Derek graduated from the University of New South Wales in 2018 with a Masters of Clinical Optometry. In his final year of clinical placement, he developed a keen interest in ocular pathology, glaucoma co-management and myopia control. Derek is therapeutically qualified as an ophthalmic medicines prescriber. He is multi-lingual (English, Cantonese and Mandarin). Derek's hobbies include participating in numerous sports with a particular interest in rock-climbing and general fitness.
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Our Burwood team can help with general eye care, children's vision, contact lenses, eyewear and advanced diagnostic checks.