Board
- 4 Elected Officers, elected by Council as Officers and automatically becoming trustees
- 6 regionally elected Council members, elected as trustees by Council
- 1 lay Council member, elected as trustee by Council
Additionally, the board of trustees can co-opt up to 2 additional trustees, with Council’s approval, one of whom must be a full time member. The other co-optee could be a full member, non-voting member or member of the Lay Advisory Panel.
Remit
- With the Chief Executive, develop long-term strategic plans;
- Formulate policy governing organisational activity, the behaviour of trustees and all aspects of Board business;
- Approve and monitor the College's Business Plan;
- Ensure that there are adequate financial resources to support the Business Plan;
- Approve the annual accounts and the budget, monitor spending and ensure that risks are identified and managed;
Board Chairman
Dr Kamlesh Chauhan PhD BSc MCOptom
Vice President
Kamlesh is Vice President of the College. He qualified in 1990 and has developed wide experience of Optometry having worked a variety of roles within eye care; most recently industry. He is currently the Head of THE VISION CARE INSTITUTE®, UK at Johnson and Johnson Medical Ltd. Kamlesh is a member of the Education Committee and Chairman of the College’s Board. Amongst other College roles Kamlesh is a College Examiner and sits on the Final Assessment Panel.
Contact: kamlesh.chauhan@college-optometrists.org
Board
Sanjay Patel BSc MCOptom
Sanjay qualified from UMIST in 1991 and currently works in high street practice as a joint venture partner. He sits on the Specsavers Professional Advancement Committee and is a College Trustee. Sanjay is also the Chairman of DOCET and Chairman of the College's Membership and Standards Committee.
David Parkins MSc FCOptom
Treasurer
David is the Clinical Quality Lead on the Bexley Clinical Commissioning Cabinet. His remit is quality assurance of commissioned services as well as optometric/ ophthalmology pathway redesign. He is the South East London Clinical Lead for the new 111 pathway, Optometric Adviser for diabetic retinopathy screening to Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich PCT's and also works in independent practice and in a hospital in South East London. David is a Trustee of the College/AOP Benevolent Fund, a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers and has been awarded Honorary Life Membership of Vision Aid Overseas.
Contact: david.parkins@college-optometrists.org
Dr Peter Allen BSc(Hons) PhD MCOptom
Since graduating from City University in 1990, Peter went on to do a PhD and Post Graduate Certificate Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, both from Anglia Ruskin University, where he now works as the Director of Clinics and Principal Lecturer. His current research interests include refractive error development, vision and reading and visual function in specialist populations. As well as being on the Board of Trustees, Peter is an assessor and examiner for the College and is a member of the Education and Investigating committees.
Contact: peter.allen@college-optometrists.org
Dr Cindy Tromans PhD BSc MCOptom DipTp(AS) DipTpIP(SP)
President
Cindy is President of the College. She is a Consultant Optometrist in the Department of Optometry at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and also lectures at the University of Manchester. Cindy is a College examiner, a College Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Dr David MacVeigh PhD FCOptom
David works for Boots Opticians Ltd at their Newton Abbot practice. Since June 2009, he has also been employed as the Optometric Advisor for Devon PCT and Torbay Care Trust. He is on the Professional Advisory Committee of Diabetes UK where he represents Optometry. David is a College Trustee.
Mary-Ann Sherratt PhD MCOptom
Dr Rob Hogan BSc PhD MCOptom
Immediate Past President
Rob is the immediate Past President and a Trustee of the College of Optometrists. He is also a member of the GOC and a founder Board member of the newly-formed European Academy of Optometry & Optics. He is the Managing Director of iCare Consulting Ltd. (providing Clinical, Technical and Professional services and advice to the Optical Sector) and the UK Director of Operations for the PowerPractice.
Contact: rob.hogan@college-optometrists.org
Dr Edward Mallen BSc PhD MCOptom
Dr Edward Mallen is a Reader in Physiological Optics at the University of Bradford, and a practising optometrist in the West Midlands. He is Admissions Tutor for the undergraduate programme in optometry at Bradford, and is an examiner for the College of Optometrists Final Assessment. Ed is also Chairman of the College of Optometrists Research Committee.
Contact: ed.mallen@college-optometrists.org
Susan Wilford BSc FCOptom
Susan is a joint venture partner based in Sheffield. Since qualifying in 1976 she has worked in both the independent and multiple sector including a dedicated Contact Lens practice. Susan is a member of the Sheffield Local Optometric Committee and represents the LOC at Primary Care Trust meetings, including information and technology and glaucoma review meetings. Sue is a PQE Supervisor and a College Trustee.
Board - Lay Trustee
John Thompson
Lay Panel Member
John Thompson was formerly a Civil Servant working with Ministers to develop and implement their policies. He spent much of his career at the Department of Health where, among other posts, he was Head of the Primary Care Division that included policy onthe non-medical primary care professions (optometrists, dentists and pharmacists). Other senior posts dealt with NHS Reform, AIDS, and the use of medicines in the NHS. Later, at the Home Office he was head of the Crime Prevention Agency and the Crime Reduction Unit. At the Health and Safety Executive he was head of the Chemicals Policy Division. At present he is a Non-Executive Director of the Richmond and Twickenham Primary Care Trust and he was Clerk of the Independent Inquiry into a Professional Body for Pharmacy.
Board - Co-opted Trustee
Rachel North
Rachel is Deputy Head of the School of Optometry & Vision Sciences at Cardiff University. Her current research interests include the structural and functional changes in diabetes mellitus and glaucoma, and she is a Director of the Wales School of Primary Care Research. She is a member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the College’s Education Committee. Rachel is also an Honorary Life Member of Vision Aid Overseas.
Contact: education.chairman@college-optometrists.org
Andrew Kitchen BSc(Hons) ACMA MBA
Lay Panel Member
Andrew is Finance Director of one of the leading Wealth Management firms in the UK. Andrew has worked in International Banking for 13 years, originally in the Capital Markets area at an Investment Bank and for the last 7 years within the Wealth Management sector. Andrew's first degree was in Finance from Loughborough University and he is a qualified UK Chartered Accountant. Andrew also holds an MBA from London Business School. Andrew has a very keen interest in Optometry as a result of historic and ongoing eye problems which have brought him into close contact with the profession.
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