Many of our staff are clinically active, delivering services within the NHS and Aston Eye Clinic, as well as providing high quality optometry educational guidance and support to students ranging from undergraduates, to optometry and ophthalmic professionals. Research outputs from the team have been internationally recognised within the field for their significance in technological advances, and the detection, diagnosis, treatment of vision disorders.
Head of School of Optometry: Professor Leon Davies
Leon is a Professor of Optometry and Physiological Optics, a registered optometrist with the General Optical Council (GOC), a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, a Fellow of the College of Optometrists (FCOptom) and the American Academy of Optometry (FAAO), and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). His main research interests are within the areas of presbyopia, ocular accommodation, intraocular lens (IOL) technology, ocular biometry, ophthalmic instrumentation, and myopia.
Deputy Head of School (Education): Dr Amy Sheppard (Senior Lecturer, Optometrist)
Deputy Head of School (Research): Professor Nicola Logan (Professor of Optometry and Physiological Optics, Optometrist)
Staff
- Academic staff
- Professor Stephen Anderson (Professor of Optometry, Optometrist)
- Dr Maana Aujla (Teaching Fellow, Optometrist)
- Dr Lizzie Bartlam (Teaching Fellow, Dispensing Optician)
- Dr Hannah Bartlett (Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion, Reader, Optometrist)
- Dr Preeti Bhogal-Bhamra (Lecturer, Optometrist)
- Ashok Chowdhury (Director of Aston Eye Clinic, Teaching Fellow, Optometrist)
- Dr Robert Cubbidge (Senior Lecturer, Optometrist)
- Dr Mark Dunne (Senior Lecturer, Optometrist)
- Dr Debarun Dutta (Lecturer, Optometrist)
- Dr Doina Gherghel (Lecturer, Ophthalmologist)
- Dr Raquel Gil-Cazorla (Lecturer, Optometrist)
- Louise Gillingham (Clinical Instructor, Optometrist)
- Jeff Goodman (Clinical Instructor, Optometrist)
- Dr Elaine Hallam (Teaching Fellow, Optometrist)
- Clare Hayes (Senior Teaching Fellow, Dispensing Optician)
- Dr Rebekka Heitmar (Lecturer, Optometrist)
- Dr Olivia Hunt (Senior Teaching Fellow, Optometrist)
- Professor Tim Meese (Professor of Vision Science, Vision Scientist)
- Professor Gary Misson (Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmologist)
- Dr Shehzad Naroo (Reader, Optometrist)
- Sanna Nasrullah (Clinical Instructor, Optometrist)
- Dr Clare O’Donnell (Reader, Optometrist)
- Professor Sunil Shah (Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmologist)
- Dr Samantha Strong (Lecturer, Vision Scientist)
- Dr Flors Vinuela-Navarro (Lecturer, Optometrist)
- Peter Williamson (Clinician Scientist, Dispensing Optician)
- Dr Amy Whiskens (Clinical Instructor, Optometrist)
- Professor James Wolffsohn (Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research Integrity, Head of Audiology, Professor of Optometry, Optometrist)
- Technicians
- Kim Woolley (Senior Technician)
- Jonathan Hancock
- Matthew Hancock
- Tony Roberts
- Julie Wilmore
- Aston Eye Clinic Reception
- Lisa Baker (Senior Receptionist)
- Joanna Standley