Biogs

Bill Harvey BSc MCOptom

Bill Harvey qualified as an optometrist in 1990. Following experience in private and hospital optometry (at Moorfields Eye Hospital), he joined the staff of City University in 1992 as their first Boots Tutor Practitioner.  In 1995 he began research into interaction analysis and establishing the influences of verbal and non-verbal information flow in the eye examination. He is currently Clinical Editor of Optician Journal, has joint responsibility for Boots Opticians CET programme, and is a visiting clinician at City University. Here he supervises final year clinics, co-ordinates and teaches the communication skills lecture programme, teaches the clinical skills module, is facilitator of the Visual Impairment MSc module and is Director of the Visual Impairment Clinic at the Fight for Sight Bath Street clinic. This clinic he has developed partly in liaison with the new RNIB facility at Judd Street where he is a visiting practitioner.

Bill acts as an Assessor for the College of Optometrists and is an examiner for both the College of Optometrists and ECOO, with whom he is a Senior Examiner and Board Member.  He has co-authored two books, one on investigative techniques and the other on paediatric optometry, and has also published widely in journals and textbooks, including Kanski and the eye section of the new Reader’s Digest Family Health Encyclopaedia.  Together with Sandip Doshi, he is currently developing the Eye Essentials series of training texts in various optometry subjects.

Articles:

• CET: Visual Recognition and Interpretation of Clinical Signs – Common Contact Lens Complications

 

Geraint Griffiths MSc Optom MCOptom BSc Mech Eng

Geraint is the Managing Director of Sportvision Ltd, the National Sportvision Development Centre (NSDC) in Leicestershire and works in general practice as the owner of Optical3 Opticians. Founder committee member of the Sports Vision Association, and former Vice Chair and editor of the SVA Journal, Geraint is also joint course organiser of the SVA certificate in advanced studies since its beginning in 1997.

Geraint is founder and Chief Executive of Sportvision UK and author of the Diploma in Sport Vision Practice. Also a  broadcaster and author of 22 publications, he and is also a College of Optometrists Examiner and Assessor

Articles:

• In the Hot Seat Interview
• CET: A personal journey from Sport to Vision

 

Sosena Tang BSc MSc MCOptom

Sosena Tang qualified in 1996 and won the College prize in the PQE’s. She currently works in multiple practice in Hoddesdon. She has also worked within the Hospital Eye Service. For the past 5 years she has been teaching on a number of pre-registration courses ad has been a pre-registration supervisor for 5 years. In 2005 she completed an MSc in Clinical Optometry at City University. Her specialist interests include binocular vision and her final research project was in the near Mallett unit foveal suppression test, where she recently published her results as an article in OPO

Articles

• CET: The visual development and clinical assessment of children

 

Dr Karen French BSc (Hons) MCOptom PhD

Following graduation in 2002, Karen French MCOptom completed her pre-registration training at City University. She was awarded the President’s prize for highest overall marks in the PQE exams. She has a PhD from Aston University and is currently dividing her time between independent private practice, and hospital practice at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon.

Within the hospital Karen works in the busy glaucoma clinics alongside the consultant ophthalmologist and is responsible for the management of the CHANGES shared care glaucoma scheme.

Karen has written a number of CET accredited articles and has presented several CET accredited lectures over the past 4 years. She teaches regularly on Pre-registration training programmes for Optometrists.

Articles:

• Glaucoma co-maagement – CHANGES
• CET: Angle Closure and Angle Closure Glaucoma.  An Optometry Perspective.Â
   

 

Simon Frackiewicz BSc (Hons) Optom, BSc (Hons) Orthop, MCOptom

Simon is the co-owner of two practices in the Robert Frith Optometrists group.  Prior to studying optometry, he qualified as an orthoptist and spent a number of years working in the hospital eye service, primarily at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading.  In recent years he has also worked as a hospital optometrist, as a visiting clinician at City University, and as a freelance lecturer, providing CET for a number of organisations.Â
Simon’s specialist areas of expertise include Binocular Vision and Paediatric Optometry.  Simon is also a Senior Associate Lecturer, for CLEARVIEW Training. 

Articles:

• Online Optometry Blog Series: Whats on BV

 

Priya Morjaria BSc (Hons) Optom, MCOptom

Priya is currently a resident Optometrist in Canterbury.  While studying at City University she was the Vice President and Treasurer of Optometry Society and also on the Student-Staff Liaison Committee.  She was the winner of the Geoffrey Hall Lightmongers Merit Award for support of fellow students and all round achievement on the BSc Optometry & Visual Science course.

She is an active member of Vision Aid Overseas and supports them regularly and organises fundraisers for them annually.

She has a keen interest in Optometry beyond the high street and completed her dissertation on the ‘Progress towards Elimination of World Blindness,’ a critical analysis of the progress made and the application of Vision 2020 policies set out by the World Health Organization. To pursue this interest she spent the summer after pre-reg working for a charitable eye hospital in the rural area outside Calcutta.

 

Joy Myint BSc (Hons) Optom, MCOptom 

Joy Myint is currently a Postgraduate Research Optometrist and Lecturer at City University.  She is also a Senior Advisor at the RNIB, an Examiner and Assessor for the College of Optometrists, and Senior Associate Lecturer with CLEARVIEW Training 

Her previous roles include an optometrist in high street practice, within the HES and also as an adviser to the PCT.

Her current research interests include glaucoma, visual impairment and binocular vision.

 

Peter Chapman BOptom(Hons) BSc(Hons) MCOptom FBDO

Peter is an optometrist working for a group of practices in the South West of England. He spent six years at Anglia Ruskin University studying Optical Management and Optometry and was awarded the Welch Allyn prize for clinical optometry.
He has also been involved with clinical demonstrations and tuition and is a Senior Associate Presenter for CLEARVIEW Training. 

Peter’s specific areas of interest include dispensing and small business management.

Articles:

• CET: Back to Basic with Dispensing – Specific Gravity – Its not Rocket Science!

 

Andrew Ho BSc (Hons) Optom, MSc, AMRSC

While studying Optometry at City University, he was secretary of the Optometry Society, winner of the Cantor and Nissel prize for best clinical work, Bausch & Lomb prize for contact lenses and the Reed Business prize for best clinical presentation.

Andrew also has a degree in Biological Chemistry and is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is currently in his pre registration year working between a local multiple optician, hospital casualty unit and a Glaucoma Shared Care clinic.

 

 

Priya Dabasia BSc MCOptom

Priya is an optometrist and visiting tutor at City University, London.  She coaches regularly on internal university lecture programmes at both postgraduate (MSc) and undergraduate level.  In addition, she has taught on a number of external public events including CET and pre-registration courses.  Her specialist field of interest is in Clinical Skills.

Articles:

• CET Article: New Generation Tonometers. Is it time to say goodbye to the Goldmann?

 

Dr Shehzad Naroo BSc (Hons) MSc PhD MCOptom FIACLE FAAO FBCLA

Shehzad graduated from Aston University in 1992 with a degree in Ophthalmic Optics (BSc Hons). Subsequently he successfully completed the pre-registration year of the College of Optometrists (MCOptom) and registered as an Optometrist in the UK with the General Optical Council. The following year he also successfully passed the registration examinations of the Newfoundland Optometric Board (Canada). Shehzad undertook the taught MSc course at UMIST, his research dissertation was conducted under the supervision of Dr Philip Morgan entitled ‘Corneal Topography in a Family with Known Keratoconic Patients’. Concurrently he was also involved on a part time basis in routine Optometric practice working for numerous independent practices, group practices, hospital clinics and private laser clinics. On completion of the MSc, Shehzad worked in routine practice in South Australia for a few months and is still registered in Queensland, Australia. He then returned to UMIST to study for a PhD under the supervision of Professor Neil Charman. His PhD thesis was entitled ‘Optical and Physiological Problems Associated with Excimer Laser Refractive Surgery’. Whilst at UMIST Shehzad worked as an Occasional Lecturer supervising clinics in routine refraction, further investigative techniques and low vision.

In August 2001, Shehzad returned to Aston University to take up a lectureship post in the School of Life and Health Sciences. His teaching areas are Second Year Contact Lenses, Third Year Anterior Eye Therapeutics and Third Year Occupational and Professional Studies. Shehzad had passed the Fellowship examinations of the International Association of Contact Lens Educators (FIACLE), the American Academy of Optometrists (FAAO) and the British Contact Lens Association (FBCLA).

Articles:

• CET: Refractive surgery. The answer to my visual problems?