Ronald Mallett

It is with great sadness that we report the death on December 4, 2019 of Ronald Mallett, who was a true innovator in optometry and contributed so much to our understanding of clinical binocular vision anomalies.

Mallett qualified as an optometrist in 1952 and in 1958 started working at the London Refraction Hospital (LRH), which later became the Institute of Optometry. In those days, many optometrists worked as volunteers in the LRH clinics to gain experience, learn from luminaries of the profession, and to provide eye care to a needy population. Ron Mallett started as one of these volunteers, working three nights a week. He also continued studying and gained the higher qualification of diploma in orthoptics in about 1962.