Harry Marsland, retired optometrist and 'retired' from being an AMD patient

Dear Colleagues

“I developed AMD at the age of 67 and after losing central vision in one eye that year I decided not to lose it in the other one as well.  Consequently I am the first, but not the only, person to achieve this ambition.  I no longer suffer from AMD!  My next ambition is to ensure that AMD is better understood.  Nearly every day I am contacted by people telling me that they have been told, correctly, they have dry AMD and told, incorrectly, that they will inevitably lose their sight.

My studies, research and recovery took me to meet Dr John Nolan of the Macular Disease Research Group at the Waterford Institute of Technology.  I have now, after twenty years of retirement, received accreditation to deliver a PowerPoint lecture on Age-Related Macular Degeneration.”

Harry H. Marsland, F.B.O.A.

Mr Marsland’s inaugural lecture will be at the Talbot Hotel, New Street, Oundle, at 11.00 a.m. on Sunday, 1st March 2009.

C-10545 (target group Optometrists) AMD; reducing risk and incidence:

• He will explain his qualification and prior experience both as an optometrist and a patient to deliver this lecture.
• He will describe in detail the symptoms preceding, during and after the development of wet AMD and the treatment options available then and now.
• He will describe in detail the symptoms of dry AMD and the treatment options available then and now.
• He will discuss the visual aids necessary and available.  The benefits and drawbacks of each.
• He will explain the known risk factors of acquiring AMD, how to assess them and the possible ways of diminishing them.
• He will discuss the value of dietary supplements and the results that might ensue.
• He will aim to have the participants understand the actions that may be worth advising to ‘at risk’ patients and the possible results and benefits.

If you are interested in attending this event, please contact Harry Marsland

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