About the Guest Editors

**Dr Frank Eperjesi** is Head of Aston Optometry. He is a clinician, educator, researcher and policy maker. He has provided care to thousands in the UK, Ghana and Vietnam, helped in the education of 5000 peers in the UK, USA, Canada, Ghana, Vietnam, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Netherlands, Jordan, Palestine and Tanzania and around 4000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK and Spain. He gained a BSc in Optometry from Aston University (1990), followed by a pre-registration position at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, where he led the low vision service with responsibility for the clinic rota, appointments, and cost management. His interest in binocular vision and paediatrics manifested itself in journal publications, a book, and completion of the College's Orthoptics diploma. He pursued research in low vision through a PhD at Aston (1995) and broadened clinical skills through work in corporate and independent practice with specialist work at the Institute of Optometry in binocular vision and colorimetry. He has led a similar service at Aston since 2004. He has worked alongside orthoptists at the Birmingham Institute of Child Welfare, as well as providing clinical sessions at Birmingham Focus on Blindness. He gained Fellowship of the American Academy and became a contributor to the Optician and Optometry Today. He was a founder of Optometric Educators Limited leading lectures and workshops on retinal examination, binocular vision and paediatrics. He was awarded Fellowship of the College of Optometrists (2013) for achievements in education, research, visual welfare and professional advancement. He completed his PhD (2000) and obtained a lectureship at Aston where he has been first, second and third year tutor, deputy-head and head. He has led modules in instrumentation, posterior eye, low vision, binocular vision and paediatrics. He has a postgraduate certificate in teaching in high education (2006), an MBA (2009) and a Certificate in Leadership and Management (2012). He received an Aston Excellence award for Citizenship (2014). Dr Eperjesi has research interests in reading rehabilitation for underachieving children and individuals with acquired sight loss, such as that caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD). His main area of activity is currently the early detection of AMD using colour contrast sensitivity and the measurement and enhancement of macular pigment optical density in individuals with AMD and also those with Alzheimer's Dementia.

**Dr Hannah Bartlett** is Senior Lecturer in Optometry at Aston University. As a clinician she has been based in the UK, but has delivered eyecare to people as far afield as Swaziland, Zambia, Russia and Estonia. Her educational experience has included teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for over 12 years, and she has developed expertise in the delivery of distance learning materials. Her experience in clinical teaching informed her editorship of a textbook entitled Ophthalmic Clinical Procedures, and she has recently been recognised as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. Dr Bartlett graduated in 2000 with a First Class Honours in Optometry, and completed her PhD in Ocular Nutrition in 2005. She was appointed as Lecturer in Optometry in 2006 and has lead modules including Primary Ocular Examination, Low Vision and Paediatrics, Effective Communication and Retinal and Macular Disorders. In 2008 she was awarded an Aston Excellence Award for teaching. Her administrative responsibilities have included Careers Tutor, Admissions Tutor, International Tutor, First Year Tutor, and she has recently been appointed as Programme Director for the Optometry & Clinical Practice collaborative degree programme between Aston University and Parkway College of Nursing and Allied Health in Singapore. Her research has been disseminated in the form of around 50 peer-reviewed papers as well as four book chapters. In addition, her research has informed the education of peers in countries such as the US, Belgium, Singapore, South Africa, and Tanzania, and she achieved Fellowship of the American Academy of Optometry in 2005. Dr Bartlett's research portfolio is broadly based around the role of nutrition in ocular disease, but has included the development and evaluation of ophthalmic instrumentation, clinical trials, the development of hand-held technologies for people with low vision, and investigations of the psychology of nutritional behaviour. This range of research has been made possible through her collaborations with engineers, computer scientists, clinicians and health psychologists, and is linked by the aim to impact on the lives of those people living with ocular diseases.
