Zac de Silva, Founder

"Without vision, there is no hope" - George Washington

Dry eye is a serious problem for many Australians. Zachary has taken great initiative in setting up the AusDryEye website.

Zachary is passionate about patient advocacy and improving the diagnosis and standard of management of dry eye. AusDryEye is a tremendous initiative and Zachary has shown great leadership and vision in this process, while raising awareness widely and very effectively.

Zachary's genuine passion for improving the quality of life for millions of patients around the world is compelling. Zachary is exploring new and exciting ways to manage and treat dry eye. 

Zachary is an excellent advocate for dry eye health. Not only has he undertaken many of the management strategies, but along the way he has gathered an understanding of the variety of mechanisms underlying this multi-factorial debilitating disease. His constant desire to seek new insights and therapeutic innovations for patients is admirable.

Zachary's knowledge on the complex aspects of dry eye disease far outmatches many practicing doctors. He has managed to collaborate in many initiatives with cutting edge practitioners on an international basis in forwarding his cause to raise the world's attention on the ocular surface.

It is a pleasure and an honour to recommend Zachary's work for AusDryEye. He has an enormous knowledge about dry eye and I sincerely hope he will continue with his work to make the problem known all over the world. 370 million patients are waiting for better treatments.

Zachary creates community and purpose with his infectious passion, authentic curiosity, creative resourcefulness and keen intellect. He is unique in his ability to reach out across different disciplines and create engagement to understand the bigger picture, nurture innovations and facilitate healing for fellow dry eye patients.

Zachary is dedicated to speaking up for dry eye patients, advocating for scientific advancement and making treatments more available. Please support his work, much more effort is needed all over the world. In this highly misunderstood condition, it is definitely not effective to only rely on physicians to make the best care available to those who need it.

Zachary is passionate about helping dry eye patients. His efforts have united doctors and patients around the world.

Zachary is a well informed professional with highly developed research skills. Zachary writes very well as evidenced by his publications in dry eye. Zachary is always a pleasure to deal with and provides a great deal of information on a difficult issue.