Interview: Lyndon Jones, director of the Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) at the University of Waterloo

Optician meets Professor Lyndon Jones before a Coopervision organised event in Birmingham. As one of the most in demand contact lens educators in the world, Jones clocks up as many as 180,000 air miles in a year touring the world.

‘On this particular tour I was in Stockholm on Sunday, then the Netherlands yesterday, Birmingham today, then two nights in London followed by Warsaw on Saturday. When I return to the UK for the BCLA later in the year I’ll be stopping off in Prague beforehand and then onto Budapest and Paris after. I’ve just been to Japan and will be in Singapore later in the year. The lectures are just as much a chance for me to learn from the audience and I find it fascinating to get insights into how practitioners’ views differ around the world while away from home.’