Optometry Academics

Lecturer

Email: john.g.mcgann@TUDublin.ie

Tel: (01) 220 5727

Current Positions

• February 2002 – present: Lecturer BSc Optometry, TU Dublin.
• Runs the Binocular Vision Clinic within the National Optometry Centre, TU Dublin
• Year 3 Tutor for TU Dublin BSc Optometry Programme
• Optometric Practice Placement Coordinator

 

Modules Currently Teaching
on (BSc Optometry)

• Binocular Vision 1 (year 2)
• Primary Care Clinic (year 3)
• Binocular Vision 2 (year 3)
• Optometric Practice Placement (year 4)

Biography

Graduated with first class honours from the DIT optometry programme in 1985. A registered Optometrist with CORU, a member of the Association of Optometrists, Ireland and the British College of Optometrists. Worked in private practice in Ireland & UK between 1985 & 2002. Shortly after returning to Ireland from UK in 1995 commenced part-time teaching on the optometry programme in DIT and was appointed a full time lecturer in 2002.

Currently coordinator for year 3 and Optometric Practice Placement coordinator, and lecturer in binocular vision. Established the Binocular Vision Clinic within the National Optometry Centre in October 2007. Has previously delivered post-graduate CPD lectures and workshops on the topics of accommodative and vergence anomalies and advanced clinical techniques to optometrists in TU Dublin and Unilúrio, Mozambique & in conjunction with Association of Optometrists Ireland.

Memberships

• Association of Optometrists Ireland.
• British College of Optometrists.

Registrations

CORU registered optometrist

Special Areas of Interest

• Management of heterophoric and accommodative anomalies.

• The relationship between vision and learning.