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Ms. Politi is a clinic instructor and lecturer at Hadassah Academic College. 

She is an optometry clinic director at Shaare Zedek Medical Center and a clinic instructor for optometry and medical students.

In addition, she's a director of a private clinic in Shaare Zedek that specializes in the fitting of specialty contact lenses and treatment of binocular issues among pediatric and geriatric patients. 

Rema Shabany- Khayyat, O.D.

Doctor of Optometry scince 1998. She Obtained her Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Biology, from the Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and her Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) degree from the University of Missouri- St. Louis, U.S.A.

She has been teaching at Hadassah Academic college since 2001 and was appointed as a full time faculty member at HAC in 2005. She is an experienced clinician and  educator in the field.

Research areas

Values and Knowledge in Optometry Education (VaKE)

Pedagogical Techniques in Optometry Education 

Academic publications

Editorial: Explaining Presbyopia to Patients in the Optometry and Vision Science Journal 1998

Explaining Presbyopia to Patients-Optometry and Vision Science September 1998 - Volume 75

- Issue 9 - ppg 627-628 editorial

Collaborations: Part of HAC collaborations in the OCULUS consortium

Laura Sitbon is a certified Orthoptist PhD-c with extensive experience and accomplishments in both academia and the industry. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Orthoptics from Paris 6 University (France), followed by a Master's degree in Rehabilitation and Medical Engineering from the same university. Later, she continued her Doctorate in Vision Sciences at Bar-Ilan University.

During her Master's degree, Laura Sitbon developed a psychophysical Follow-up protocol for assessing anisometropic adult amblyopia. In her PhD research, she focused on binocular fusion disorders and fundamental visual processing. Her work has been published in prominent scientific journals and presented at conferences.

Currently, Laura Sitbon serves as a lecturer in occupational optometry and the visual perception laboratories for the Department of Optometry at Hadassah Academic College.

Her research centers on binocular vision disorders and their impact on visual processing, low-vision rehabilitation, and functional vision assessments. Additionally, she acts as a research coordinator for clinical studies in collaboration with the optical industry (Shamir Optical Ltd)