Dale Rolfe is the principle owner and optometrist of the Rolfe group of Eyecare Plus practices. He works full time at consulting and is available at the Forster and Tea Gardens practices.

Forster is Dale’s hometown after living here for over 30 years. He completed his optometry degree at the University of NSW in Sydney, graduating with honours in 1986. He has special interests in eye disease, diabetic management and glaucoma.

He has been a director of Eyecare Plus since 2010 and has been deputy chairman of the board since 2014. He is also a member of the Australian Optometry Association and is a longstanding member of the Australian Optometrical Panel.

His mantra is to supply all of his patients with thorough comprehensive eye care.

He is endorsed to prescribe ophthalmic medications.

While he enjoys all aspects of eyecare, Adam has particular interests in dry eye management and contact lenses, especially complex fittings such as orthokeratology and keratoconus.

He is a therapeutically qualified optometrist who is enthusiastic about all aspects of optometry.

Ilinca Furdui is our full-time optometrist available at Kincumber & Swansea. She graduated from the University of NSW in 1998 and, after working in numerous practices in Sydney and Perth, has been consulting with us since 2007.

Ilinca will give you a comprehensive eye examination, checking for all eye diseases and can give you advice about contact lenses or laser eye surgery.

Your children’s eyes are also important and need checking regularly. Ilinca will be happy to see you for your routine check or any emergencies as she has a special interest in ocular diseases.

She has a particular interest in dry eye management and has completed her Graduate Certificate in Ocular Therapeutics.

Brian Adams graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1997 with an honours degree in Optometry. He was also the winner of the University Metal in Optometry for that year. On graduating he started work at Eyecare Plus in Newcastle where he worked at a number of practices to achieve a wide range of experience in all aspects of optometry. He settled at The Junction Eyecare Plus a few years later and has been our principle optometrist along with Mark Long since.

He is a member of both Optometry Australia and the Cornea and Contact Lens Society of Australia.
He has a keen interest in eye disease management and contact lens fitting.

Brian also has a Graduate Certificate in Ocular Therapeutics from the University of New South Wales allowing him to look after and treat acute eye disease.

Cana graduated with a Bachelor of Vision Sciences and a Master of Optometry from Deakin University in 2017. She works full time at the Forster store. Cana will give you a comprehensive eye examination to assess the health of your eyes and recommend the best lens options for you. Cana has an interest in ocular diseases and dry eye management.

Elke Morrell is a full-time optometrist.

Elke spends her time between Forster and Long Island New York. She is a local Forster resident left Forster to study optometry at the University of NSW and completed her degree in 2006. She spent time in New York developing her skills during her preceptorship. She spends time between countries, but when she is back in Australia we are happy that she spends a large part of that time working as an optometrist for us in Forster, Stockland and Tea Gardens.

Elke is a mother of 2 and so has a special interest in children’s vision as well as diabetic management and contact lenses. She is also a great source of knowledge on spectacle frame fashion trends out of the USA.

Margaret is the original owner of the Eyecare Plus practice at Stockland and has been practising here for over 35 years. She is available at Stockland Forster 3 days per week.

She has a master’s degree in optometry with a specialty in contact lenses and has been an optometrist for over 40 years. She has specific interests in children’s vision, low vision and diabetes and macular degeneration.

Tom has been at our practice since 2009. He has a first class honours degree.

He runs specific glaucoma and macula clinics in Forster, Forster Stockland and helps in servicing our patients at Tea Gardens.

He has a keen interest in fishing and is great on giving advice on the best eyewear to use when out on the water.

He is therapeutically endorsed and enjoys therapeutic management of ocular diseases. He believes in a holistic approach as an optometrist with interests in implementation of new research and technologies in dry eye treatment and myopia control. Daniel runs the dry eye clinic at The Junction practice and is motivated to win the battle against dry eye.

Outside of work, he is an avid runner and multi-instrumentalist and is more than happy to help you out with the visual demands of sports and music.