MetWest Eye Centre – Blacktown’s Eye Specialists
A centre of Eye Excellence providing quality eye care to the people of Sydney’s Greater West for over 20 years
MetWest Eye Centre is a private specialist facility that has been providing quality eye care through consulting and surgical services to the residents of Blacktown, Parramatta, Castle Hill and Sydney’s greater western suburbs for nearly 30 years.
At MetWest, you will find a unique specialist ophthalmic centre that provides our patients with the latest diagnostic and treatment equipment enabling us to look after all our patient’s needs.
Our specialist care team understands how difficult it is for our patients to travel for specialist eye services. Our mission at MetWest is to provide our patients and Sydney West referrers with convenient access to leading specialist eye care and treatment for all eye conditions without the need to travel outside of Sydney’s west.
Conditions Treated
Why choose us?
When you come to visit our specialist eye doctors in Blacktown, you will find a purpose built ophthalmic specialist health care facility and accredited day hospital that allows us to provide consultation for diagnosis, management and treatment of all eye conditions including cataracts, glaucoma, retinal conditions, macular degeneration and common eye disorders and eye surgery.
You don’t have to worry when you come to MetWest. At MetWest, we understand patients are people.
At your appointment, our Blacktown eye specialists are supported by a caring team of professional orthoptists and a caring administrative team.
MetWest is recognised by all leading health funds and DVA and accept all major credit cards.
State of the art on-site Day Surgery
Providing high standards of patient care with excellent surgical outcomes in a stress free environment.
Our surgical team can take care of simple operations to highly complex surgeries, thanks to state of the art equipment and a range of the most experienced specialist eye doctors in Blacktown, Parramatta, Castle Hill and Sydney wide, able to perform the following:
- Cataract extraction and lens implantation
- Glaucoma filtering
- Pterygium excision with conjunctival graft and beta-ray
- Blepharoplasties (functional)
- Ectropion/Entropion
- Adult strabismus surgery (squint)
- Ptosis
- Eyelid cysts, tumours, cancers
- Oculo-plastics
- Intravitreal Injection
Meet our Doctors
Our team of eye doctors in Blacktown look forward to meeting you.
Dr Robyn Armstrong
Dr Armstrong graduated Melbourne University Medical School in 1974. During her training she worked in general medicine and surgery in the South Pacific.
Dr Anthony Maloof
Dr Maloof is an internationally recognised and trained surgical subspecialist in Cornea and Eye Plastic surgery, with significant contributions at the international level.
Dr Mark Gorbatov
Dr Gorbatov is a Vitreoretinal Surgeon, meaning an ophthalmologist who specialises in treating diseases and disorders of the eye, affecting the retina and the vitreous, by means of surgery, injections, laser or medication.
Dr Dov Hersh
Dr Dov Hersh is an oculoplastic and ophthalmic surgeon with rare dual international fellowship qualifications in both oculoplastics and medical retina.
Dr Andrew Kaines
Dr Andrew Kaines is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the macula and retina. The most common of these conditions are macular degeneration and diabetic eye disease.
Dr Brighu Swamy
Dr Brighu Swamy is a medical retina and macula subspecialist. His expertise is in the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with retinal conditions.
Dr Jason Cheng
Dr Jason Cheng is an ophthalmic surgeon with a special interest in glaucoma.
Dr Leonard Ong
I graduated from the University of Sydney (MB.BS, Hons) and completed general residency years at Concord Hospital. I then undertook a Master of Public Health at Sydney University in 1999.
Dr Dana Robaei
Dr Robaei is an ophthalmic surgeon and anterior segment subspecialist. Dr Robaei completed her undergraduate medical degree with Honours at University of New South Wales, and her ophthalmology surgical training at Sydney Eye Hospital.
Dr Sureka Thiagalingam
Dr Thiagalingam is a general Ophthalmologist. She obtained her undergraduate medical degree at Otago University before moving to Sydney and undertaking specialist ophthalmology training at Sydney Eye Hospital.
Dr David Benjamin
Dr Benjamin graduated from Sydney University Medical School in 1958, completing his internship before going to England in 1961 for eye specialist training.
