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Ph.D. Simon Barnard
Visiting Professor
Professor Simon Barnard graduated from City University in 1976. 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.
He is a Fellow of the College of Optometrists (UK); Fellow of the European Academy of Optometry & Optics; and Emeritus Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry.
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. As Director of Ocular Medicine at the Institute of Optometry, London he developed the first GOC accredited therapeutic course licensing optometrists to prescribe medication and am himself qualified and registered with the GOC as an Independent Therapeutic Prescriber in the UK.
He 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.
Professor Barnard is a Visiting Professor of Clinical Optometry at the Department of Optometry & Vision Science, Hadassah Academic College where he is responsible for clinical sections of the International Master’s Degree including the modules on Paediatrics; Glaucoma; and Retina in Optometry Practice.
He was awarded a PhD on eye movements in 1999 and am a Fellow of the College of Optometrists UK, the American Academy of Optometry and the European Academy of Optometry & Optics.
He has published over 50 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 and presented over 450 invited postgraduate lectures or research presentations in Croatia, France, Holland, Hong Kong, Italy, Israel, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad, the UK and the USA.
He has extensive experience as an expert witness in preparing medico-legal reports with a roughly equal split between claimant and defendant including at GOC tribunals and was a founding Director of IRISS Medical Technologies which invented and developed the Volk Eye Check..
- Paediatric optometry
- Visual aspects of learning difficulties in which he takes an “evidence-based” approach.
Selected articles in peer-reviewed journals
Maor R, Tailor V, Banteka M, Khandelwal P, Glaze, Barnard S, Yashiv Y, Dahlmann-Noor A (2017) Rate of Strabismus Detection on Digital Photographs Increases by Using Off-center Near Target. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2017 Mar 1;54(2):90-96. doi: 10.3928/01913913-20160906-01. Epub 2017 Jan 17
Shneor E, Millodot M, Barnard S, Gant L, Koslow K, Gordon-Shaag A (2014) Prevalence of congenital hypertrophy of the retinal epithelium in Israel. Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, 34, 385
Gordon-Shaag A, Barnard S, Millodot M, Gantz L, Chiche G, Elbaz V, Wolff R, Pinchasov R, Gosman Z, Simchi M, Koslowe K and Shneor E (2014) Prevalence of choroidal naevi using scanning laser ophthalmoscope, Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, 34, 94-101
Dahlmann-Noor AH, Adams G, Maor R, Barnard S, Yashiv Y, Barnard S (2013) Real- time automatic strabismus screening using digital image analysis techniques, Journal of AAPOS, Volume 17, Issue1, Page e13, February.
Barnard S, Shneor E, Brauner J, Millodot M, Gordon-Shaag A (2012) Bilateral chorioretinal coloboma discovered with ultra-wide field retinal imaging, Journal of Optometry, Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 150-154
Coleman P & Barnard NAS (2007) Congenital Hyperplasia of the Retinal Pigment Epithelium, Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, Nov 27(6):547-55
Barnard NAS (1996) Punctum plugs Ophthal Physiol Opt Vol 16 Suppl 1) S15-S22
Evans BJW, Barnard NAS, Arkush C (1996) Optometric uses of hypnosis. 13 (2), 69-73 Contemporary hypnosis
Barnard NAS, Thomson WD (1995) A quantitative analysis of eye movements during the cover test - a preliminary report Ophthal Physiol Opt, 15, 5, 413-419
Thomson WD, Barnard NAS (1995) A quantitative analysis of eye movements during the cover test. Invest. Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 36, 4, 355
Barnard NAS, Thomson WD (1994) A quantitative analysis of eye movements during the cover test, Optom Vis Sci, 71, 12s, 163
Lawrenson JG, Edgar DF, Gudgeon AC, Burns JM, Geraint M, Barnard NAS (1993) A comparison of the efficacy and duration of action of topically applied proxymetacaine using a novel ophthalmic delivery system versus eye drops in healthy young volunteers Br J Ophthalmol, 77, 713-715
Barnard NAS, Patel C, Barnard RAM (1991) Sjögren-Larrson Syndrome, Ophthal Physiol Opt, 11, 2, 180-183
Barnard NAS, Allen RJ, Field AF (1991) Referrals for vascular hypertension in a group of 45-64-year-old patients, Ophthal Physiol Opt, 11, 3, 201-205
Barnard NAS (1990) Anthrax of the eyelids, Ophthal Physiol Opt, 10,3, 300-301
Barnard NAS, Birch J, Wildey H (1990) Concurrent visual conversion reaction and simulated colour vision defects in a twelve year old Child, Ophthal Physiol Opt, 10, 4, 391-393
Barnard NAS (1990) The psychological effect of contact lenses on a seven year-old child. Contact Lens Journal, 18, 10, 282
Barnard NAS (1989) Hypnosis in contact lens practice. Contact Lens Journal, 17,5, 159-160
Barnard NAS (1989) Kinetic outline perimetry as a technique for examining the visual fields of young children. Ophthal Physiol Opt, 9, 463-464
Barnard NAS (1989) Visual conversion reaction in children. Ophthal Physiol Opt, 9, 4
Barnard NAS (1989) Congenital pit of the optic nerve. Ophthal Physiol Opt, 9,3, 324-326
Books
Barnard NAS & Edgar DF (1996) Pediatric Eye Care, Blackwell Science, Oxford. Joint Editor and author/joint author of four chapters.
Barnard NAS (1989) Sphygmomanometry & Ophthalmodynamometry, Chapter 25 In " Optometry" Eds. Edwards K & Llewellyn R., Butterworths, London.
