That was the week that was

Three new product launches, a host of research findings and plenty of forthright opinions were on offer across the five evenings of Contact Lens Week, held on February 8-12.

Lockdown limitations have led to the cancellation of countless conferences, seminars and meetings, so to let a little light onto this increasingly dark scene, Optician organised a week of webinars organised around five fundamental themes facing the contact lens business.

The five topics – myopia control, presbyopia, contact lens comfort, torics and extended depth of focus – were each discussed in a two-part approach on their featured webinar. The first half of the webinar saw an Optician-invited speaker present on the topic in hand and then be interviewed and take questions posed by the online audience. The line-up included no fewer than three former or current BCLA presidents and world-renowned presenters including Professor Lyndon Jones, professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science and director of the Centre for Ocular Research & Education (Core) at the University of Waterloo, Canada.