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Our eyes in a digital era Challenges and opportunities for practitioners Dr. Willis C Maples Geraint Griffiths Prof. Gunta Krumina USA United Kingdom Latvia Doctor Willis Clem Maples is currently in practice Geraint Griffiths is an independent optometrist Professor Gunta Krumina is the head of the Department Content at Bellevue Specialty Eye Clinic in Hattiesburg, and owner of Optical3 Opticians. He is the of Optometry and Vision Science at University of Latvia Mississippi (USA) in a practice limited to vision managing director of Sportsvision UK, chair in Riga, director of the optometry bachelor’s programme development and visual rehabilitation issues. of The Association of Sport and Schoolvision and a senior researcher-project leader. She was awarded a In addition to his Doctor of Optometry (OD) Willis Practitioners and author of the Diplomas PhD in medical physics for her research on the correlation Clem Maples has a Master’s in Community Health. in Sport and Schoolvision Practice. He is an between stereothreshold and quality of monocular stimuli. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry examiner for the College of Optometrists Her main research topics are related to stereovision, visual and he practised privately for 12 years before being and a sportvision expert for the British electrophysiology and clinical optometry. recruited to begin the vision therapy programme at Standards Institute (BSI). He believes that Her latest scientific work has focused on the visual screening the Oklahoma College of Optometry at Northeastern the understanding and management of the of schoolchildren and the visual fatigue of computer users. Introduction 4 State University. He is a professor emeritus of this physiological effects of prisms in monocular She is currently developing a new stereotest aimed at college. He has served as the president of the College and binocular vision are the key to the future of evaluating the crossed and uncrossed disparity for local and of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) and ophthalmic optics (optometry and dispensing global stereovision. Digital eye strain 6 twice served as the chair of COVD’s International optics) and the prevention of ocular, systemic The new epidemic Examination and Certification Board. He has received and psychological morbidity. the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from both the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and Visual and ocular symptoms 11 the Southern College of Optometry. He also lectures Computer-related visual and ocular symptoms both in the United States and internationally. Alicja Brenk-Krakowska under the CVSS17 perspective Poland Dr. Thomas Gosling Alicja Brenk-Krakowska is an optometrist and USA Computer Vision Syndrome 15 lecturer at the Laboratory of Vision Science and Optometry at the Adam Mickiewicz New problem or rediscovery of old problems? After graduating from the Illinois College University of Poznań, Poland. After gaining of Optometry in 1992, Dr Thomas Gosling Dr. Wolfgang Jaschinski two bachelor’s degrees and an MSc, in 2006 moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin to join Germany she began her PhD in optometry. In 2010, she Checklist 18 the largest ophthalmology clinic north formally became a lecturer in the Laboratory of of Milwaukee. During his 14-year stay Quality of life checklist: Documenting clinical success Doctor Wolfgang Jaschinski completed Vision Science and Optometry. As a member of in Green Bay, he was the optometrist his electrical engineering degree in the Polish Association of Optometry and Optics for the Packers football team. For the 1976, at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, (PTOO), she is actively involved in the development Optimising presbyopia corrections 20 past decade, Dr Gosling has worked Germany. Between 1978-1980, he of visual-motor techniques. She is interested in in Denver, Colorado, where he finds An integrated optometric-ergonomic approach: worked as a research associate at the binocular instability in developmental dyslexia, his private practice the perfect Biological Institute, Stuttgart University. the processes of prism adaptation in both children Optimising presbyopia corrections for the computer workstation environment to express the creativity Since 1980, he has been a research and adults with dyslexia as well as lateralisation of behavioural optometry has to offer in a associate at the Leibniz Research Centre attention processes in dyslexics. In addition, she new digital world. In parallel, he acts as a Children’s vision 28 for Working Environment and Human is involved in studies concerning the influence Hoya technology consultant, inventor and Factors (IfADo) in Dortmund. From 1998 to of prism adaptation on sensory-motor functions Does computer vision syndrome really exist in children? entrepreneur. In 2011, he was named one of 2015, he was the head of the Individual Visual in normal patients with evoked left neglect. She the Optometric Business Innovators of the Year. The impact of computers and e-devices on children’s vision Performance research group at IfADo. Since 2015, has presented her research findings at numerous he has been the principle investigator for the Visual conferences in Poland and across Europe and Prof. Bruce Evans Ergonomics research group at IfADo. His main research is the author of many scientific articles. In her A survey of near visual function 32 topics are static and dynamic properties of binocular United Kingdom practice, she is actively engaged in the treatment In Latvian schoolchildren with and without learning difficulties coordination: objective and subjective measurements of of patients with different kinds of reading vergence eye movements; objective measurements of static and Professor Bruce Evans is the director of research problems. dynamic accommodation; optometric and ergonomic aspects of at the Institute of Optometry in London and a Blue light-filtering 38 spectacle lenses to correct for presbyopia; visual and cognitive visiting professor to City University London and influences at manual interaction with visual displays. Clinical performance of blue light-filtering spectacle lenses London South Bank University. He is a fellow of the College of Optometrists and holds their higher qualifications of Diploma in Contact Lens Beating the blues 49 Practice and Diploma in Orthoptics. He was Blue light and its effects on the eyes awarded a fellowship of the American Academy of Optometry in 1993, fellowship of the British Contact Lens Association in 2006 and of the Dr. Mariano González-Pérez Evaluating 51 European Academy of Optometry in 2016. He Spain has lectured and published extensively. His first Evaluating the efficiency of spectacle lenses with accommodative support book, Pickwell’s Binocular Vision Anomalies, Doctor Mariano González-Pérez has a PhD Prof. Giancarlo Montani and a blue light filter Third Edition, was published in 1997, with the fifth in Optics, Optometry and Vision from the Italy edition published in 2007. A subsequent book, Complutense University of Madrid. He works Dyslexia and Vision (2001), is aimed at members as an assistant professor at the same university Professor Giancarlo Montani, optometrist, contact lens specialist of the public, teachers and eye care professionals and is a practicing optometrist at Alain Afflelou and organiser of continuing education courses in optometry in and has been met with critical acclaim. In 2010, Óptico in Madrid. The main outcome of his Italy, started his professional career in 1988 as professor of optics he co-authored Vision and Reading Difficulties for PhD was the development and validation of and optometry at the Institute of Optics and Optometry, Vinci, eye care professionals. He has written over 240 the first Rasch-based linear scale for measuring Italy. Between 1996-2001, he worked as director of the course scientific and professional papers and given computer-related eye symptoms among curriculum. In 2002, he was appointed as head of the Contact Lens more than 250 invited lectures. His main areas of computer workers, the Computer-Vision Division, Ophthalmology Department at Santa Chiara University research are children’s vision, dyslexia, orthoptics, Symptom Scale (CVSS17). This research resulted Medical Centre, Pisa, Italy. Since 2005, he has taught the contact contact lenses, and headaches including in a publication in Investigative Ophthalmology lens courses in the Optics and Optometry Department at the migraine. He has an optometric practice in and Visual Science, two other papers that are University of Salento, Italy. Brentwood, Essex, where he specialises in due to be published shortly and three more He is the founder of the Centro di Ricerche in Contattologia at children’s vision, binocular vision anomalies, communications related to the clinical findings the University of Salento and a referent for Italy of the Eurolens dyslexia and vision, and contact lenses. associated with CVSS17. International Survey of Contact Lens. 2 Our eyes in a digital era - Challenges and opportunities for practitioners Our eyes in a digital era - Challenges and opportunities for practitioners 3 Olga Prenat Global Education Director, Hoya Vision Care INTRODUCTION PAGE 6 If children are pacified by digital displays Dr. Natalia Vlasak Ophthalmologist, and television screens, they may never Senior Clinical Research Specialist, From computer vision syndrome to digital eye strain recover. Global Marketing, Hoya Vision Care PAGE 7 The unnecessary mental and physical effort creates an excessive energy demand The digital