3.15pm - 4.15pm
Sponsor Session
LECTURE: Latest clinical data for myopia management with multifocal contact lenses - Positive Impact
CPD
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LECTURE

Review of the latest clinical data for myopia management with multifocal contact lenses - Positive Impact

CPD ref: C-101917

Description: To evaluate myopia progression over an approximately 6-year follow-up period in children and young adults wearing a commercially available, daily disposable, soft multifocal contact lens with an extended depth of focus (centre distance) design.

Target audience: Optometrist, Contact lens optician; 
Domains and learning outcomes
Clinical practice
To understand the role extended depth of focus and multifocal contact lenses play in myopia management and treatment
To understand the retrospective cohort analysis 6 year data relating to extended depth of focus lenses and how this compares to additional peer reviewed published studies.
Speciality CPD - contact lens optician
To understand the role extended depth of focus and multifocal contact lenses play in myopia management and treatment
To understand the retrospective cohort analysis 6 year data relating to extended depth of focus lenses and how this compares to additional peer reviewed published studies.

Speaker

Professor Nicola Logan MCOptom PhD MEd

Nicola Logan is a Professor of Optometry and Director of Research for the Optometry and Vision Science Research Group, School of Optometry, Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Nicola is also an educator in Optometry at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in the field of paediatric optometry and myopia. Nicola’s research interests are the epidemiology of refractive error, the development and aetiology of myopia and myopia control. Her current research projects span these areas of interest and include clinical trials in myopia control and risk factors for progression of myopia in children with supporting peer-reviewed publications in all these areas. Nicola leads an active myopia clinic at Aston University alongside her myopia research clinics and labs and she collaborates with other researchers working in the field of myopia as part of the Myopia Consortium UK and internationally as a taskforce chair and ambassador for The International Myopia Institute.