Optical organisations

Professor Kovin Naidoo has stepped down as CEO of the Brien Holden Vision Institute and its foundation

Chief executive of the British Contact Lens Association, Cheryl Donnelly, and newly-appointed president, Sunil Shah, tell OT  how the profession is diversifying from its traditional role

Outgoing president Keith Tempany said Professor Sunil Shah’s appointment marks “the dawn of a bright new era for the BCLA”

The Local Optical Committee Support Unit recruits Specsavers NHS services director, Stephen McAndrew, and independent optometrist, Emma Spofforth

Dispensing and contact lens optician, Alexandra Webster, will take over from Paula Stevens in August

The former ABDO president was elected alongside new IOA vice president, Donald Crichton

Dean Dunning will shadow Rosemary Bailey before taking over in 2020

Clive Marchant was inaugurated during the ABDO Optrafair Dinner, as Fiona Anderson takes on an advisory board member role

Optometrist and academic, Professor Edward Mallen, was named president at Optometry Tomorrow

Redesign expert who helped shift 6000 HES appointments into community within project’s first year appointed as director of ophthalmology