Jagrut Lallu

Jagrut Lallu is a Partner and co-owner of Rose Optometry, which he joined in 2009. He is a Therapeutic Optometrist and Contact Lens Specialist — BOptom (Hons), MSc Specialty Lenses (Hons), FIAOMC — and the founder of the New Zealand Eye Research Centre, the practice's own clinical research facility in Hamilton.

Jagrut's clinical focus is children's vision and myopia management, orthokeratology (overnight lenses) and keratoconus. He is the WCO Asia-Pacific Myopia Ambassador and the International Myopia Institute's New Zealand Ambassador, a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Deakin School of Optometry and an Honorary Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland, and he teaches optometrists in New Zealand and Australia.

Parents whose child has just been found to be short-sighted can book a free 15-minute Myopia Chat with Jagrut to talk through the options before committing to a treatment plan. He also enjoys general optometry and sees patients of all ages.

Special interests: children's vision, myopia management, orthokeratology, keratoconus and scleral lenses, dry eye, clinical research.