Emily McCormick

Deputy editor

Emily McCormick is deputy editor of Optometry Today, where she produces content for both the website and the journal. She has a particular interest in charity and business stories, and is responsible for the In practice section of the journal.

More articles by Emily McCormick

Awareness of AMD is lacking, study finds

Researchers have said that their findings “highlight the urgent need to raise awareness of the symptoms of macular disease”
- OT news and features
- Pulished 02 Nov 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Research AMD Patients Treatment
Potential alternative treatment for corneal infections discovered

Fight for Sight-funded research identifies alternative treatment to antibiotics
- OT news and features
- Pulished 02 Nov 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Research Treatment AMD
Sightsavers campaign raises over £5m

The charity’s End is in Sight appeal aimed to raise funds to support its ambition of eliminating trachoma
- OT news and features
- Pulished 21 Sep 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Charity Campaign Fundraising Blind Treatment
First-ever mass administration of trachoma drug has happened in Egypt

The first antibiotics were distributed in Matay in the Menia region of Egypt in July and this has since been expanded to other regions
- OT news and features
- Pulished 19 Sep 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Charity Patients Blind Treatment
Personalised medicine: developing gene therapies

OT speaks to Professor Tara Moore about research that aims to develop a gene therapy for corneal dystrophy
- OT news and features
- Pulished 18 Sep 2019
- by Emily McCormick, Laurence Derbyshire
Research Genetics Treatment Patients
Cameroon cataract project success

More than 50,000 people have been screened and 2300 have received cataract surgery
- OT news and features
- Pulished 16 Jun 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Charity Cataracts Treatment Patients
Catching trachoma

Project manager for Sightsavers eye health projects in Kenya, Maurice Oduor Abony, discusses the eye care advancements in Kenya
- OT news and features
- Pulished 07 May 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Charity Campaign Treatment Feature
AI identifies potential AMD treatment drugs

Action Against AMD will investigate the findings further
- OT news and features
- Pulished 16 Apr 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Research Treatment AMD
Study will investigate a condition that causes irreversible sight loss in East Africa

The Fight for Sight/John Lee Primer Fellowship funding has been awarded to Dr Frederick Burgess
- OT news and features
- Pulished 11 Apr 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Charity Blind Treatment
“High-quality data has the power to bring people around a common goal”

Sightsavers’ Sarah Bartlett discusses the role of technology and data in the bid to eliminate trachoma by 2025
- OT news and features
- Pulished 04 Apr 2019
- by Emily McCormick
Charity Treatment Campaign Fundraising Patients Blind Sight impairment