BARNARD LEVIT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Clinical Assistant
Dinah joined us in 2015 and now helps to runs our clinical department.
Job Titles:
- Principal Optometrist and Partner / Professor Simon Barnard / Principal Optometrist and Partner
After graduation from City University London in 1990, Dr Levit became one of only 20 professionals who achieved their Fellowship of the College of Optometrists (FCOptom), by examination, on contact lenses and children's visual problems. From 1996 until 2006 Dr Levit was Principal Optometrist and contact lens specialist at Moorfields Eye Hospital (St.George's Eye Department). During this time he was appointed as the contact lens specialist at Central Middlesex Hospital, a role he still fulfils. Dr Levit was awarded his doctorate in research investigating the use of specialist scleral and corneal lenses in the management of keratoconus and related irregular cornea disorders. Dr Levit provides optometric expert medico-legal services as well as consultancy services to contact lens manufacturers.
Dr Levit is the inventor and developer of a unique contact lens design and fitting system for Keratoconus (ALK™ system) manufactured by Ultravision CLPL, a major UK based international Contact Lens Laboratory. These lenses are routinely used in the UK and abroad. The treatment of corneal ecstatic disorders like keratoconus, as well as other corneal pathologies and post refractive surgery complications form a significant part of Dr Levit's contact lens work. In 2012. he was short listed for the national award of Contact Lens Practitioner of the Year 2012.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Optometrist
- Principal
Menachem Salasnik has been a principal optometrist at Barnard Levit since 2000. He is a Low Vision Consultant and Geriatric Optometry Specialist with years of experience working in the Specialist Clinic at the Institute of Optometry and in the Low Vision clinics at Central Middlesex Hospital and the South London Vision Resource Centre in Guys Hospital. As well as being the practitioner of choice for Senior Citizens within our practice, he also currently heads the Low Vision Departments in Watford and St Albans Hospitals. He has lectured widely on the topic of Low Vision and the Aging Eye both in the UK and internationally.
More recently, he has been involved on a consultancy basis with a pioneering project based at Ben Gurion University and the Holon Institute in Israel where the principles of image enhancement, magnification and projection are being used to construct a compact, low-weight low vision goggle that is critically needed for the visually impaired.
Mr. Salasnik is one of the only optometrists in the country to have received a Certificate in Diabetic Care from Warwick University as part of a multidisciplinary approach to improving diabetic care in England.
Apart from his main speciality, he also particularly enjoys working with children and was the recipient of the Adrian Evans Memorial Prize from the Institute of Optometry in 2001 for exceptional skills in clinical paediatric optometry.
Job Titles:
- Principal Optometrist and Partner / Professor Simon Barnard / Principal Optometrist and Partner
- Professor
Professor Simon Barnard graduated from City University in 1976 with a First Class Honours degree. After working at the NOOR Eye Hospital, Kabul Afghanistan, he completed his training in private practice and at the Department of Contact lenses and Prosthetics, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.
Professor Barnard was a full time Lecturer in Clinical Optometry from 1979 to 1999, Director of Paediatric Clinics until 2002 and Tutor in Ocular Disease until 2004 at the Department of Optometry & Visual Science, City University, London.
He is Visiting Professor, Department of Optometry & Visual Science, School of Health Sciences, Hadassah, College, Jerusalem, Israel where he is responsible for the clinical section of the Masters Degree including the modules on Dyslexia & Learning Difficulties and Paediatrics. He is Director of Ocular Medicine at the Institute of Optometry, London and served until 2009 as a UK representative on the European Council of Optometrists (ECOO) Board of Examiners as Convenor of the Abnormal Ocular Conditions module of the European Diploma of Optometry and is Chairman of the Scope of Practice Committee of the ECOO. He is a member of the Society for Coloured Lens Prescribers as well as a founding member of the European Academy of Optometry.
He was awarded his PhD on eye movements in 1999, is a Fellow of the College of Optometrists and a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. His other qualifications include Certificates in Ocular Therapeutics from both Pennsylvannia College of Optometry, Philadelphia, USA and from City University, London. He holds a specialist Diploma in Contact Lens Practice from the College of Optometrists (British) and is Certificated (City University, London) in Contact Lenses for Abnormal Ocular Conditions, Diabetic Shared Care, Glaucoma Shared Care, Learning Difficulties and Paediatric Optometry. He was awarded the Diploma in Clinical Optometry (with Distinction) in 2001. In 2011 he qualified as an Independent Optometrist therapeutic Prescriber - DipTh(IP) and entered the GOC register in this speciality.
He was awarded Fellowship of the European Academy of Optometry in May 2014.
Professor Barnard has published over 30 clinical papers in journals or books and is the Co-Editor and Author of the textbook Paediatric Eye Care, published by Blackwell Science in 1996.
He is co-inventor of the Volk Eye Check
He has presented over 150 invited postgraduate lectures or research presentations in Croatia, France, Holland, Hong Kong, Italy, Israel, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad, the UK and the USA. Professor Barnard has a wide range of clinical interests the main one being the field of paediatric optometry & visual aspects of learning difficulties in which he takes an "evidence-based" approach.