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Clinical work involves development of sports vision as a research theme and to see how binocular vision processescan be optimised to improve sports performance as well as reading and writing ability. This work is conducted withDr McDowell and Mr Gilsenan (private practice) and resulted in a television interviewed on 9th January 2008. Theimprovement of reading writing and sporting ability addresses national and international priorities in education andlearning.Professor Pierscionek utilises her legal qualifications to develop research in healthcare ethics and medical law asapplied to eye care practice. This has produced the first book of its kind on healthcare ethics and law for eye carepractice and a peer-review paper which from its publication in April to July 2008 had been accessed over 1465 timesand remains one of the top 10 most viewed articles in BMC Medical Ethics.Professor Pierscionek was invited to give a plenary lecture: “The paradox of the eye lens”, SPIE Student ChapterWroclaw, Poland (May 2008)During the year Professor Pierscionek also secured a DEL-funded studentship for “Identification of Iris Biometrics”(circa £48,000).Publications:Asejczyk-Widlicka M and Pierscionek BK; Fluctuations in intraocular pressure and the potential effect on aberrationsof the eye; British Journal of Ophthalmology, 91: 1054-1058, 2007Belaidi A and Pierscionek BK; Modelling internal stress distributions in the human lens: can opponent theoriescoexist? Journal of Vision, 7: 1-12, 2007Schachar RA, Kamangar F and Pierscionek BK; Edinger-Westphal and pharmacologically stimulated accommodativerefractive changes and lens ciliary process movements in rhesus monkeys; by L.A. Ostrin and A. Glasser; ExperimentalEye Research, 85: 298-301, 2007Keenan J, Orr DF and Pierscionek BK; Patterns of protein distribution in porcine eye lenses; Molecular Vision, 14: 1245-1253, 2008Pierscionek BK; What is presumed when we presume consent? BMC Medical Ethics, 9:8 doi:10.1186/1472-6939-9-8,2008Schachar RA, Chen W, Woo BK, Pierscionek BK, Zhang X and Ma L; Diffusion of nanoparticles into the capsule andcortex of the crystalline lens; Nanotechnology, 19: 1-4, 2008Schachar RA, Kamangar F and Pierscionek BK; Changes in lens dimensions and refractive index with age andaccommodation; Optometry and Vision Science, 85: 281-282, 2008Siedlecki D, Kasprzak H and Pierscionek BK; Radial gradient index intraocular lens: a theoretical model; Journal ofModern Optics, 55: 639-647, 2008Book:Pierscionek BK; Law and ethics for the eye-care professional; Elsevier (2008)110
Professor Roger AndersonProfessor of Vision ScienceContact details:T: +44 (0)28 70324891rs.anderson@ulster.ac.ukProfessor Anderson’s research interests centre around non-invasive assessment of the visual system using chromaticand achromatic measures of spatial acuity and the relationship between structural and functional measures of visualintegrity.The separation of neural and optical limits to both central and peripheral vision is also a major area of interest. Thishas particular clinical application in eye conditions such as glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and in theageing eye where different visual functions may be selectively affected and neural damage must be separated from thefiltering effects of the eye’s optics. This work is being undertaken in collaboration with Moorfields Eye Hospital andthe UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in London where Professor Anderson is also Principal Optometrist (Research)and Professor of Visual Neuroscience respectively.Scanning laser image of optic nerve head.Professor Anderson’s recent work has increasingly involved the application of novel imaging methods to assessretinal structure and integrity in conditions that affect the photoreceptors of the retina, e.g. age-related maculardegeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and myopia. Current methods to grade retinal appearance in conditions suchas age-related macular degeneration do not relate well to the actual visual performance of the patient. A modifiedscanning laser ophthalmoscope, producing high magnification scans of the photoreceptor layer allows us to imagethe retinal cones in vivo. This may provide us with a better method to grade retinal structural change based onphotoreceptor loss.In vivo image of retinal conesProfessor Anderson continues his work as a member of the MRC College of Experts, the Royal Irish Academy LifeScience Committee, the General Optical Council Education Committee and the College of Optometrists ResearchCommittee.111
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