Do hydrogel lenses still have a place in modern contact lens practice? by Johnson & Johnson Vision

This presentation will outline the key material requirements for modern soft contact lenses, and how these material characteristics can affect comfort and physiology. Corneal oxygenation (and how this is predicted by laboratory measures such as Dk and Dk/t) will be described. The importance of material characteristics for wearer comfort will be explored. The presentation will also focus on an area which has received relatively little attention: the ocular inflammatory response to lens wear. Modern clinical research methods are giving new insights here, and this exciting new area will also be described.

Professor Philip Morgan MCOptom

Professor of Optometry, Head of Optometry, Deputy Head of the Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, and Director of Eurolens Research
The University of Manchester

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Professor Philip Morgan MCOptom

Professor of Optometry, Head of Optometry, Deputy Head of the Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, and Director of Eurolens Research, The University of Manchester

Philip Morgan is Professor of Optometry, Head of Optometry, Deputy Head of the Division of Pharmacy and Optometry, and Director of Eurolens Research at The University of Manchester. Philip is Immediate Past President of the International Society for Contact Lens Research and Vice President of the International Association of Contact Lens Educators.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and of the British Contact Lens Association, and a member of the UK College of Optometrists.  Philip was the BCLA Medallist in 2014 and the winner of the 2019 Max Schapero Award of the American Academy of Optometry.

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• To understand the differences in currently-available soft contact lens materials and how such differences impact on clinical performance
• To outline the evidence for the relationship between material properties and wearer comfort during contact lens wear
• To understand the inflammatory response of the cornea during contact lens wear; how material characteristics impact on this and its importance in successful contact lens wear

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