CooperVision Student Summit: Tear evaporation study takes top prize

Five optometry students from different UK universities recently attended the CooperVision supported 2015 student Summit. Here, before a panel of academics, each had the opportunity to present their work. The projects, all concerning contact lenses and the anterior eye, were judged on the grounds of their originality, usefulness and potential application, and the students on their presentation skills and subject knowledge. Here is a snapshot of each.

Cardiff University

Amy Gatfield, under the supervision of Dr Katharine Evans and Dr Ashley Wood, had used two different techniques to compare the influence upon the tear film of two different lubricant eye drops – Systane Balance and Systane Ultra. She had used the well known Keeler Tearscope Plus, introduced in 1994 and now pretty much used in research only, and the more recently introduced EasyTear View Plus, a dacrioscope first available from 2014.