Speakers
Friday 9 - Sunday 11 June 2017

We have a fantastic line-up of expert speakers from the UK and around the world. A full list of speakers and abstracts will be available from January 2017.  

Keynote speakers include:

Professor Lyndon Jones
Lyndon Jones is a Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University Research Chair and Director of the Centre for Contact Lens Research at the University of Waterloo. He graduated in Optometry from the University of Wales in 1985 and gained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Biomaterials Research Unit at Aston University, Birmingham, UK in 1998. His research interests primarily focus on the interaction of novel and existing contact lens materials with the ocular environment, dry eye and ocular drug delivery. He has authored over 300 refereed and professional papers, one text-book, given over 900 invited scientific and continuing education lectures at conferences worldwide, in over 30 countries and has been awarded over 30 national and international awards.

Dr Jennifer Craig 
Jennifer Craig is a therapeutically qualified optometrist and Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.  Her main research interest is in dry eye and tear film dysfunction since completing her PhD in this area, in 1995, from Glasgow Caledonian University. She regularly delivers continuing education and research lectures internationally and publishes in both the scientific and clinical press. She is co-author of the book ‘The Tear Film’ and has contributed to the Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society’s International Workshops on Meibomian Gland Dysfunction and more recently, on Contact Lens Discomfort.

Michel Guillon (Medalist)
Professor Guillon is the Managing Director of the Ocular Technology Group International and Michel Guillon Sports Vision and an Honorary Professor in The School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston University. He has presented over 150 papers and posters, published over 60 scientific papers, co-edited a major text book on contact lenses with Professor Montague Ruben and contributed to 19 text book chapters. Professor Guillon is also a coinventor on 31 patents worldwide. His research activities include vision correction and optical performance, clinical and biochemical analysis of dry eye and the tear film and vision strategy of elite athletes.

Dr Eef van der Worp
Eef van der Worp is an educator and researcher. He received his optometry degree from the Hogeschool van Utrecht in the Netherlands (NL) and has served as a head of the contact lens department at the school for over eight years. He received his PhD from the University of Maastricht (NL) in 2008. He is a fellow of the AAO, IACLE, BCLA and the SLS. He is currently affiliated with the University of Maastricht as an associate researcher, a visiting scientist at Manchester University (Manchester UK) and adjunct Professor at the University of Montreal University College of Optometry (CA) and adjunct assistant Professor at Pacific University College of Optometry (Oregon, USA). He is lecturing extensively worldwide and is a guest lecturer at a number of Universities in the US and Europe.