Global Ambassador: Daddi Fadel
Tell us about yourself:
I am a conscientious person who works hard and pays attention to detail. I’m flexible, quick to pick up new skills and eager to learn from others. I also have lots of ideas and enthusiasm.
In particular, I have:
• 20 years’ experience in clinical practice
• Experience in lecturing and in education
• Experience in organizing international meetings
• Superb relationship-building skills enabling project team members to focus on even during challenging times.
What encouraged/inspired you to join the BCLA?
The BCLA is a very valuable association globally. Being a fellow provides me a high level recognition in the field and among patients.
What do you hope to achieve by representing the BCLA as a Global Ambassador?
I hope to achieve several projects. My current ideas include the intent to:
1. connect the BCLA to international realities: to collaborate with other associations and have sessions in international meetings
2. increase the visibility of the association on social media
3. present the BCLA to global colleagues
4. encourage colleagues to become members and fellows
5. attract the industry in investing in the association.
Biography:
Daddi Fadel DOptom, FSLS, FBCLA, FAAO, is a contact lens designer, a Pioneer of modern lens designs, and a specialist in contact lenses for irregular cornea, scleral lenses, myopia control, and orthokeratology. She speaks five languages; Arabic, French, English, Italian, and Greek. She studied optometry at Istituto Superiore di Scienze Optometriche (ISSO) in Rome (1998-2001), a four-year course achieved in three years with honors. She is also a clinical scientist at Center for Ocular Research and Education (CORE).
She started to lecture and publish from her first year of Optometry school. She has 20 years’ experience in optometry and specialty contact lenses. She is internationally recognized as a key opinion leader, who has several peer-reviewed publications in the area of specialty contact lenses and lectures extensively in 5 languages in national and international symposia.
Daddi Fadel and Dr. Melissa Barnett are authors of the “Clinical Guide for Scleral Lens Success”. Daddi Fadel is the author of the book “Scleral Lens Complications: Their Recognition, Etiology, and Management”.
She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contact Lens Research & Science (JCLRS).
She is a certified and approved advanced speaker to conduct NCLE approved courses. She is the first Certified EyePrint Practitioner outside the USA and Canada.
Fadel is Fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Society (SLS), British Contact Lens Association (BCLA), American Academy of Optometry (AAO), and the International Association of Contact Lens Educator (IACLE). She is the Founder and head of the European School of Scleral Lenses (EUROSCOLE), Founder and Past President of Accademia Italiana Lenti Sclerali (AILeS), co-founder and President of Euro & Austral-Asia Scleral Lens Academy (EASLA), council of the International Society of Contact Lens Specialists (ISCLS), Global Ambassador of the BCLA, member of the GPLI Advisory Board, member of the medical advisory board of the International Keratoconus Academy (IKA), Program & Education Chair of The Summit of Specialty Contacts (SSC) and of the Global Ophthalmic Women (GLOW), Board Member of the International Forum for Scleral Lens Research (IFSLR) and of the International Congress of Scleral Contact (ICSC), Clinical Advisor of Myopia Care, and International Relations Chair of the Scleral Lens Education Society (SLS).