Teaching internationally

I consider it a great privilege to be considered one of the world experts in keratoconus. Obviously, I have spent countless hours learning the art of keratoconus diagnosis and treatment. But, of course, with the privilege of being considered an expert comes a responsibility to teach others.

This year I am proud to say that I have been invited to teach surgeons about keratoconus at three large international meetings. The first was recently for a weekend training session on corneal topography, tomography, and biomechanics in Surabaya in Indonesia. Later on in the year I will be attending the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting at which I will be teaching ophthalmologists from Europe on post-corneal cross-linking pain relief. In October this year I will be attending the American Academy of Ophthalmology teaching people about topography-guided oxygen-enhanced epithelium on topography-guided cross-linking, which will be a new technology being released in America later on this year.

I thoroughly enjoy teaching medical students and other doctors as well as ophthalmology trainees from around the world. It gives me great pleasure to be able to impart some of the knowledge that I have spent so many years acquiring.