DATE & TIME: Wednesday 29 March 2023 at 18:30 - 19:30 GMT
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PRESENTATION
Maintaining healthy tear film is essential maintaining ocular health, avoiding dry eye symptoms. This is important for successful contact lens practice and avoiding drop outs. The webinar is designed to detail –
- diagnostics methods of tear film and ocular surface important for comfortable contact lens wear
- key tearfilm parameters to monitor during contact lens wear
- range of acceptable limits of tear film ingredients and their clinical implications
- staged management and treatment options
- future developments and upcoming exciting opportunities
CPD reference C-105108.
SPEAKERS
Dr Debarun Dutta is an optometrist, a tenured lecturer at the Optometry School, Aston University, Birmingham UK. In this balanced academic role, he is responsible for both excellence in research and teaching at the Optometry School. Dr Dutta is also a council member of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA). He is involved in didactic and pre-clinical face-to-face training for Optometry students in the area focused on contact lenses and optometric clinical practice. He works as a consultant to industry partners, published more than 50 peer review and 20 professional articles, and has lectured in various countries worldwide.
Mrs Rachel Casemore is an optometrist, graduated from Aston University in 1992, qualifying in 1993. She worked in independent practice for 24 years before leaving in 2020 to pursue a full-time research PhD at Aston. She gained an independent prescriber qualification in 2016 and a professional certificate in glaucoma in 2018. Rachel is also a clinical supervisor at Aston Eye Clinic.
Alongside her current research activity, investigating the tears for biomarkers of Dry Eye Disease, Rachel works in a team of optometrists who examine patients attending Aston’s Specialist Dry Eye Teaching Clinics. Her particular interest is Dry Eye Disease in young adults.
This session is kindly sponsored by Alcon.
