GlobalCONTACT
ISSUE 03/2024
Overview
Technology: The wettability of RGP contact lenses // Spiral-shaped optic // Report: 42nd ESCRS // Achromatopsia // Fitting Background: Presbyopinion // Mini scleral lenses // Business & Marketing: Supply chain security training
NEWS
Contact Lens Institute names Visionaries 2025
The Contact Lens Institute has named 18 established and emerging leaders in the eyecare community as 2025 Visionaries. The diverse group represents a range of practice settings, research interests and specializations from across the United States and Canada, according to the announcement. The honorees were selected based on their dedication to increasing awareness and promoting…
School of Optometry in Saint John
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) and the University of Waterloo (UW) have signed a memorandum of understanding, to explore the establishment of a school of optometry in Saint John, New Brunswick, to serve Atlantic Canada, the universities announced in a statement. The memorandum of understanding between the two universities emphasizes the goal of increasing…
Tangible Science has new chief executive officer
Tangible Science Inc. announced that Karen Havenstrite, Ph.D., MBA, co-founder, and former CTO, has been appointed chief executive officer, succeeding Victor McCray, MD, who will transition to the role of executive chairman of the board. Dr. McCray, who led the company for 12 years, is stepping down to embark on the next chapter of his…
WAVE Eye Care Specialty Contact Lens Division Launches
EyePrint Prosthetics, Advanced Vision Technologies (AVT) and WAVE Contact Lens System have united to form WAVE Eye Care, a division dedicated to providing fully customized specialty contact lenses. According to the announcement, WAVE Eye Care offers a broad range of solutions, including Ortho-K lenses, scleral lenses and corneal gas permeable (GP) lenses, all designed to…
Global Myopia Awareness Coalition has new member
The Global Myopia Awareness Coalition (GMAC) has announced the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) as its newest professional association member. This partnership expands GMAC’s global network and strengthens its efforts to raise awareness and promote action on childhood myopia worldwide, the association stated. BCLA plays a key role in advancing education, knowledge sharing and professional…
ARTICLES
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,…
Contact Lenses: Enhancing the comfort
The importance of contact lens characterization Why do wearers consider “soft” contact lenses (CLs) more comfortable than the “rigid” gas permeable (RGP) alternative? Thus, what does “comfort” mean from a scientific point of view? In this short article, we aim to emphasize the significance of meticulously characterizing and monitoring the physical parameters of CL materials…
State of the Art(ificial): Part 2
Understanding Soft Lens Design & Fitting Celebrating 50 years of EFCLIN, urges us to look back – but also gives us a good opportunity to look forward. Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting a lot of attention lately, almost to the point of becoming a fashion statement: everybody is into artificial intelligence, it seems. Several recent…
A historic therapeutic contact lens
Series on the Roth Collection Contact lenses are not only a valuable visual aid, they were also used soon after their invention as a bandage and, following the successful synthesis of water-retaining plastics, as a drug carrier on the eye. Their ability to compensate for irregular corneal astigmatism was recognized as early as the first…
Erik Larson: The Problem Solver
A visit to Larsen Equipment Design Together with his son Andrew, Erik Larsen shoulders a steel bar and carries it into his workshop. It smells of oil and metal here. A whole battalion of machinery is installed here. Large, old, new and small. And the really big ones, which easily have a footprint of 6…
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.