GlobalCONTACT
ISSUE 02/2025
Overview
Report: EFCLIN Congress // BCLA Clinical Conference // Market Data Report // Company Profile: Sub Micron Tooling // Fitting Background: Powerful profiles // Business & Marketing: AI in Training // Special: 100th Issue of GlobalCONTACT
NEWS
First Brien Holden Founders Award dinner
Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) recently honored the memory of the organization’s founder, professor Brien Holden, Ph.D., with the inaugural Brien Holden Founders Award dinner, the organization said in an announcement. Holden, a leader in expanding access to vision care worldwide who passed away in 2015, established OGS in 2003 in collaboration with the World Council…
New edition of Contact Lens Update
The Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) has published the latest edition of Contact Lens Update, dedicated to rapidly accelerating interest in pre-myopia that is influencing risk assessment, early intervention, and myopia management among clinicians. Guidance from four expert contributors includes strategies, technologies, and clinical insights for the pediatric and primary eye care communities….
The Optical Community Celebrates 25 Years of World Sight Day
Last week, the optical community celebrated the 25th anniversary of World Sight Day, the global awareness day observed annually on the second Thursday of October. This year’s campaign, coordinated by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) in cooperation with the World Health Organization, focused on ensuring eyecare is accessible, available and affordable…
BostonSight held its annual FitAcademy Retreat
BostonSight, a nonprofit eye healthcare organization, held its annual FitAcademy Retreat for Cornea and Contact Lens Residents and Fellows at New England College of Optometry (NECO) in Boston, September 12-13, 2025. This year marked the seventh annual event bringing together cornea and contact lens residents and fellows from sites throughout the United States and Canada…
CLI study about contact lens adoption
New consumer research from Contact Lens Institute (CLI) indicates there is substantial opportunity for increased contact lens adoption by Gen Z, as well as identifying purchase drivers that the eyecare community can employ to encourage contact lens usage, the organization announced. The data indicates an 8 percent difference in Gen Z contact lens wear (35…
ARTICLES
Pediatric Scleral Lenses
The care and treatment of vision problems in childhood is particularly challenging, especially when conventional visual aids are not sufficient. A 21-year retrospective study by Carrasquillo et al. highlights the long-term effects and benefits of scleral lenses in pediatric care.
Presbyopinion
Everyone has an opinion on presbyopia. But let’s stick to the facts and answer this question: What is presbyopia, exactly, and what can we do about it? Part I here in GlobalCONTACT covered the mechanism of accommodation and presbyopia as well as definitions of the condition.
Contact lenses in their DNA
Hecht Contactlinsen GmbH is based in Au near Freiburg, Germany, and is one of the leading manufacturers of customized contact lenses. Founded in 1978, the company specializes in individual solutions for contact lenses and offers high-quality RGPs as well as soft contact lenses. In addition, several subsidiaries have been added over the years.
The Summit of Specialty Contacts
From November 23 to 24, 2024, everything in Rome revolved around specialty contact lenses. It is the only international meeting of its kind in Europe and has brought together opinion leaders from over 25 countries in the field of specialty contact lenses to share their experiences, research results and innovative ideas.
LenzBox: Innovative contact lens cleaning
Efficient contact lens care for soft contact lenses is particularly important for long-term and safe contact lens wear. At the last Opti Munich 2024, a start-up presented a completely new system that not only simplifies contact lens care, but also manages the amount of care product used sustainably.
Chat GPT and other AI – a new language for the industry
An interview with CSEM machine learning expert Philipp Schmid ChatGPT and other AIs have recently caused a furor in virtually all professions where people write, program or design. How much dust are these supposedly general-purpose AIs stirring up in the industry? The general-purpose AIs are kicking up an enormous amount of dust. But unlike 2016,…
LETTER
Employee, where are you?
Are you having trouble finding employees? And to keep them? There’s a specter haunting the EU – and unfortunately, it’s very real: The shortage of skilled workers. And it’s particularly noticeable in some EU countries. That’s because demographic change is in full swing here – and often more advanced than in other regions of the world.