Faculty and Staff - Optometry and Vision Sciences (M.Optom)

Devora Mirsky is an optometrist with expertise in the field of low-vision.

She has broad experience in eye exams and visual aid fittings, primarily from her work in the Michaelson Institute for Visual Rehabilitation at Hadassah Hospital. There, she is also responsible for laser-assisted cataract surgeries, and participates in studies that are done in the ophthalmology Department. Additionally, she runs workshops about low vision for medical students and has lectured in the optometry course for ophthalmology residents. Devora manages the virtual community of AMD in “Kamoni” and presents lectures to public and professional audiences.
At the College Devora will manage low vision clinics for the Master’s program.

Dr. Eyal Gal holds a B.Sc./B.Optom from Bar-Ilan University and an M.Optom with honors from Hadassah Academic College. He earned his Ph.D. at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, with a focus on contact lens design for keratoconus and post-keratoplasty (PKP), emphasizing specialty contact lenses for ocular diseases.

He is a lecturer and the Director of the Contact Lens Laboratories and Clinics at the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College, where he oversees both graduate (Israeli and international) and undergraduate clinical training in specialty contact lenses. Dr. Gal co-instructs the Final Research Project course and teaches Advanced Contact Lens Techniques within the M.Optom and undergraduate programs, as well as myopia management clinics.

In his academic and clinical pursuits, Dr. Gal collaborates with prominent international contact lens companies such as CooperVision Israel, SwissLens (Switzerland), Spectrum INC (USA),Ultavision (UK) and Mark’ennovy-Euclid (Spain).