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Dr. Ravid Doron holds a B.Sc. in Optometry from Bar-Ilan University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Medical Sciences from Tel Aviv University. She is the Head of the M.Sc. Program in Vision Science and Optometry at the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College.
Her research focuses on the development of the visual system in children and on visual perception in normal and pathological conditions. In recent years, her work has focused in particular on the mechanisms underlying the development and progression of myopia during childhood and adolescence. Her studies are conducted in collaboration with researchers from academic institutions in Israel and abroad.
Dr. Doron teaches in the undergraduate and graduate optometry programs, supervises students in the department clinics and in clinical and research projects, and serves on several academic committees and on the Ethics Committee of the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary College for the approval of clinical studies. She led the Evidence-Based Practice program within the OCULUS project of the European Union’s Erasmus program and continues to promote and implement this approach in teaching and clinical training. Dr. Doron is a member of the Israeli Council of Optometrists, a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO), and a reviewer for international scientific journals in the field of vision science.
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Tel: +972-2-6291911
Email: ravidro@jmc.ac.il 

Dr. Hadas Ben-Eli holds a Bachelor of Science in Optometry from Hadassah Academic College (now the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary Academic Center), a Master of Science in Neuroscience and Behavior, and a Doctorate in Public Health from the Hebrew University.

Dr. Ben-Eli developed a psychophysical test for the early diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration using color vision, which earned her an award from the Israeli Society for the Study of Vision, and during her doctorate she examined risk factors and a possible common pathway for dry eye syndrome, Sjögren's syndrome, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These studies were conducted in collaboration with the Department of Ophthalmology, the Department of Rheumatology, Hematology, and the Department of Oral Medicine at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, and were published at international conferences and in renowned scientific journals.

Currently, Dr. Ben-Eli is the Head of the Department of Optometry at the Jerusalem Multidisciplinary Academic Center, a Lecturer in Ocular Pathology and Statistics in the Bachelor of Optometric Sciences, and coordinates the Master's Degree Clinical Seminar (Israeli and International) in the Department of Vision Sciences and Optometry.

In addition, Dr. Ben-Eli serves as the Director of the Optometry and Biometrics Service at Hadassah Medical Center.

Dr. Ben-Eli's research focuses on anterior segment diseases of the eye, such as dry eye disease and cataracts, and their impact on vision tests, vision tests in children, fitting and calculating intraocular lenses for candidates for cataract surgery, and fitting contact lenses for cases of complex eye diseases. These studies are conducted in collaboration with the provincial health bureaus at the Ministry of Health, with ophthalmologists from Hadassah Medical Center, with companies from the optics industry, and with researchers in the field of vision from abroad.

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 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, The Jerusalem Multidisciplinary 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..