British Contact Lens Association Explained
The British Contact Lens Association[1] is an educational and scientific membership organization formed in 1977.
In 2013 it had 2000 members. It organizes an annual Clinical Conference and Exhibition. In 2015 the main themes were myopia management and presbyopia correction.[2] [3] It will be organizing a research symposium in March 2016 with the Netherlands Contact Lens Congress.[4]
The current BCLA President is Neil Retallic[5]
A President is elected for either one or two years
Previous Presidents have included:
- Indie Grewal (Optometrist)
- Jonathon Bench (Optometrist)
- Sunil Shah (Ophthalmologist)
- Keith Tempany (Optician)
- Brian Tompkins (Optometrist)
- Andy Yorke
- Susan Bowers (Optometrist)
The Current CEO is Luke Stevens-Burt (Since April 2020)
Previous CEOs have included
Cheryl Donnell (until March 2020)
Vivian Freeman
Global Ambassadors
The BCLA selects Global Ambassadors, who must be Fellows of the BCLA, and "work towards helping us reach a wider global audience by sharing BCLA news and updates with professional networks across the regions. Each of them play a key role in bringing research, skills and knowledge development to like-minded professionals with an interest in contact lens and anterior eye care."[6] As of 2024, the Global Ambassadors are:
- Melissa Barnett (The Americas)
- David Berkow (Middle East/Africa)
- Nicole Carnt (Australasia)
- Karen Carrasquillo (The Americas)
- Jennifer Craig (Australasia)
- Daddi Fadel (Europe)
- Amod Gogate (Asia)
- Kurt Moody (The Americas)
- Pauline Cho (Asia)
- Fernando J Fernandez-Velazquez (Europe)
- Joserine Samson (Middle East/Africa)
- Jacinto Santodomingo-Rubido (Europe)
- Bridgitte Shen Lee (The Americas)
- Fabrizio Zeri (Europe)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Home. Association. British Contact Lens. www.bcla.org.uk. en. 2018-09-23.
- News: Myopia management and presbyopia correction at the BCLA. 17 July 2015. Optician Online. 6 July 2015.
- News: New frontiers in contact lenses . 17 July 2015 . Optometry Today . 8 July 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150721053906/http://www.optometry.co.uk/news-and-features/features/?article=7488 . July 21, 2015 .
- News: BCLA in new partnership to run Netherlands symposium. 17 July 2015. Optometry Today. 23 June 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150721055936/http://www.optometry.co.uk/news-and-features/news/?article=7440. 21 July 2015.
- Web site: BCLA President . 2022-05-04 . www.bcla.org.uk . en.
- Web site: Meet the Global Ambassadors . 1 July 2024 . British Contact Lens Association.