Anderson added to Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame

Douglas Anderson, inventor of the Optos device, has been named as one of four new additions to the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.

A product designer, he was spurred on to develop the Optomap retinal scanner by the inadequacies of diagnostic methods that failed to detect a detached retina in his five-year-old son.

The Dunfermline-based company Optos is expanding in Europe and new markets and as of March 2012, over 33 million Optomap exams had been undertaken.