Jane has worked in a Primary Care Ophthalmology Service situated within a GP Medical Centre in Dorset since 2002. The service has gradually expanded over this time to allow referrals from a greater number of GP practices. A GP with a specialist interest in ophthalmology has recently joined the GP practice to enable the service to expand further. Jane also works alongside a consultant ophthalmologist with a specialist interest in glaucoma in his ophthalmic outpatient clinic at the local community hospital. This ophthalmologist has agreed to act as Jane’s mentor. The College of Optometrists Diploma in Therapeutics, Additional Supply, was awarded to Jane in July 2006 & Independent Prescribing in July 2010. 

Jane attended the LOCSU facilitator training in November 2012 and is an experienced facilitator and trainer. 

Jane is currently a director of the AOP & commenced working for the LOC Support Unit in January 2008, soon after it was set up & is a LOCSU Clinical Advisor.  Jane examined at PQE level for the College of Optometrists from 1997-2006 and has been an AOP councillor since 2006, being elected as a director in 2009 & 2012.

Gus Gazzard was made a Consultant in the Glaucoma Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2009 following a Surgical Fellowship at Moorfields 2006-08 and a Research Fellowship with Prof Peng Khaw in Singapore 1999-2002, where he ran several clinical trials in glaucoma surgery. He pursues research interests in angle closure glaucoma, randomised controlled trials of glaucoma treatments, and anterior segment imaging as an honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Ophthalmology, London.

He is a the Chief Investigator of the LiGHT Trial – a large multicentre £1.8m NIHR-HTA funded trial of Selective laser Trabeculoplasty, a member of the EAGLE Study Group, an international multi-centre randomised controlled trial of early lens extraction in angle-closure, co-founded the European Glaucoma Society Special Interest Group in angle closure and is a Clinical Director for Moorfields South.

Christine Purslow graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Ophthalmic Optics in 1991.

Her pre-registration training was in hospital optometry, after which a variety of clinical roles followed including private practice, part-time teaching, and specialist contact lens and low vision practice. Embarking on the academic chapter in her career in 2001, Chris was awarded her PhD from Aston University in 2005.

She is a member of the College of Optometrists (UK), and a Fellow of both the IACLE and the BCLA, and a recipient of the Irving Fatt Memorial Award for her work in anterior eye research. Chris has authored several scientific papers and professional articles, and has presented to both national and international audiences.

For several years, Chris was a senior lecturer and researcher in the School of Optometry & Vision Sciences at Cardiff University where, as Co-Director of the Contact Lens & Anterior Eye Research Unit (CLAER) she established research interests examining the ocular surface and the tear film, hand hygiene, and evidence-based practice, alongside her clinical work.  Chris has also been the Director of Postgraduate Taught Courses within WOPEC (Wales Optometry Postgraduate Education Centre), based at Cardiff University. Her current role is Professor and Head of Optometry at Plymouth University, the newest Optometry programme in the UK. She continues to focus her research and clinical work on the anterior eye.

Chris also takes a keen interest in the key challenges for the profession at a national level, wishing to safeguard and develop the career aspirations and professional freedom of both those students she has taught in the past, and those she has the privilege to be involved with currently.

Teifi James is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon living in West Yorkshire. His NHS practice is at Calderdale Royal Hospital Halifax and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and his private practice is at the Spire Hospital in Elland. He graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School Paddington (London University) in 1983 and did 4 years of general (internal) medicine before specialising in ophthalmology. As a junior ophthalmologist Teifi worked for 3 years with Jack Kanski in Windsor before registrar and senior registrar appointments in Leeds and Bradford. He spent 3 years as a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellow at Leeds University Molecular Medicine Unit studying the Immunogenetics of Behçet's Disease but never submitted his PhD thesis, thereby avoiding a lifetime in the laboratory. In 1993 he became the youngest ever member of the council of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. His first consultant post was at St James's Hospital in Leeds in 1996, also being appointed at Halifax in 1997. Teifi held part time posts at both hospitals until 2001. Mr James specialises in the medical and surgical management of Ocular Inflammatory Disease – uveitis and scleritis. He runs a regional clinic caring for well over 1000 patients with these chronic relapsing conditions. Teifi has always continued a general ophthalmology practice alongside his specialist Uveitis clinics and has also performed over 10 thousand cataract operations including 500+ procedures in uveitic eyes.

Nine years ago in 2004 Teifi got so fed up with "the hot wet flannel compresses situation" that he designed and patented the EyeBag – a re-useable warm compress for Meibomian Gland Dysfunction. He is now Managing Director of The EyeBag Company, which he runs alongside his clinical practice. Teifi is also managing director of The Dry Eye Clinic Ltd - a company with a remit to improve the management of dry eye patients by supporting affiliated dry eye practitioners in their clinics in Britain. Apart from being a Fellow of The Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Teifi James is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, and has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London since 2001. He also holds the Diploma in Ophthalmology from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Teifi lectures widely and is involved in a variety of different educational roles.

Mr Scott Hau BSc(Hons), MSc, DipTp IP

Scott Hau is a principal optometrist at Moorfields Eye Hospital.  He has worked in the contact lens service for over 14 years and has been involved in developing and designing a range of contact lenses that are used in the Hospital.

His other clinical interest includes ocular imaging and has numerous peer reviewed scientific publications in this field.  He is also qualified as an independent therapeutic prescribing optometrist.