Lead keynote speaker was Nathan Efron, research professor in the School of Optometry and Vision Science at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. In what was a rare UK appearance, his lecture, titled 'Strategies for improving contact lens comfort', looked at understanding how comfort is recorded and reported, the appreciation of the causes of lens discomfort and gaining insights into strategies for enhancing contact lens comfort.
Professor Efron said the starting point for contact lens wear was that the lens had to be comfortable and that patients were generally more interested in comfort than vision. He began with an interactive poll on what delegates felt was their most reported type of discomfort. Dryness was the most popular response, despite technological advances in recent years, and was cited by Professor Efron as the principal reason for contact lens dropout.
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