Dr James Muecke, Australia-Blinded By Sugar MHC2

Guest SpeakerDr James Muecke at MHC - II

Dr James Muecke, talked about his journey as an ophthalmologist, mainly as eye surgeon and his advocacy for children after he was awarded as Australian of the year, in 2020. He shared his work experienced based on which he was awarded as Australian of the year and a prestigious recognition. He discussed about various research on diabetes patients and found the loss of eyesight was very prominent among the type 2 diabetic patient, across Australia. His research led him to generate awareness among the diabetics in Australia where he calls it as diabetic remission with Food For Medicines. The impact of carbohydrates in diabetic patients. He observed drastic result among his patients on adopting the diet plans by nutrionists balancing carbohydrates in diets. He also shares about his experience of getting nasty letters from various local endocrinologists as he started creating awareness of carbohydrates among diabetic patient, despite positive results. This was related with the safety of the patients. To counter this he organist a meeting with the local endocrinologists who were practicing low carb diets in 2022, this resulting is formulating a guideline and this was published this year by the Australian diabetic society, this was the turning point in Australia for the diabetes guidelines.

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About Dr James Muecke

An ophthalmologist from Australia, working in Adelaide, South Australia. He was the 2020 Australian of the Year, having been South Australian of the Year. Started professional career working in Kenya for an year. After his ophthalmology training, he worked for a year at Saint John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem, including taking "outreach eye clinics" into refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His comeback to South Australia was as an eye surgeon, working in private practice and as a visiting consultant at the Royal Adelaide and Women's and Children's Hospitals.

In 2000, he founded Vision Myanmar at the South Australian Institute of Ophthalmology. In 2008, this evolved into Sight For All, a social impact organization dedicated to fighting the causes of blindness with projects in Aboriginal and mainstream Australian communities, as well as training and equipping eye surgeons throughout Africa and Asia. He is Chair and co-founder of Sight for All. Working with AusAID funding and the co-operation of both country's governments, Muecke created a program to create more than 30 specialist eye centers in Myanmar to treat cataract blindness.