Optometry Tomorrow looks at global eye care

Very different challenges facing eye care professionals across the globe were explored during this year’s Optometry Tomorrow conference in Birmingham.

The College of Optometrists annual event attracted 780 attendees over two days of lectures and workshops covering everything from dry eye to mobile phone screening apps.

Professor James Wolffsohn opened the second day presenting on how findings from last year’s DEWS II report can be applied in practice.

Practical workshops throughout the event delved further into the issue of dry eye as the warmer months approach and patient symptoms peak.

Meanwhile, Dr Andrew Bastawrous, CEO of smartphone-based vision screening enterprise Peek Vision, provided the Charter Lecture on improving access to eye care in remote and low resource settings.