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Continuous Professional Development

Workshop on Optics and Dispensing

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India Vision Institute (IVI) organized a two-day comprehensive workshop on Optics and Dispensing for a group of over 45 Optometry professionals and students in Hyderabad, on 29 and 30 July 2016. 

The workshop was facilitated by Dr. L Srinivasa Varadharajan, Research Scientist, Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, L V Prasad Eye Institute; Ms Sandhya Shekar, Senior Program Manager, India Vision Institute; and Mr Saif Ahmed, Senior Varilux Consultant (AP and Telangana), Essilor India Pvt. Ltd. It focused on the concepts of Thick lenses & Thin lenses, Prisms, Third order aberrations and ways to minimize them, Gullstrand's schematic eye, Polarized and unpolarized light, Types of lenses, Lens materials & treatments, Frames, Basics of PALS, Trouble shooting & latest advancements in PALs.

The workshop was attended by over 45 Optometry practitioners, educators and students from Netra Mandir Optometry Institute, Mumbai; Schieffelin Institute of Health - Research & Leprosy Centre, Vellore; Netradeep College of Optometry, Beed; University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad and various other Optometry institutes and Eye hospitals across India. The participants greatly appreciated this workshop.

IVI acknowledges the support of Essilor India Pvt.Ltd. in funding the program.