Daddi Fadel

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EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF SCLERAL LENSES

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I share my knowledge with my colleagues helping them change patients' lives

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ABOUT DADDI FADEL

Daddi Fadel DOptom, FSLS, FBCLA, FAAO, FIACLE is an Optometrist, a Pioneer of modern lens designs, a contact lens designer, and an internationally recognized specialist in contact lenses for irregular cornea, scleral lenses, myopia control, and orthokeratology. She speaks five languages; Arabic, French, English, Italian, and Greek.

She studied optometry at Istituto Superiore di Scienze Optometriche (ISSO) in Rome (1998-2001), a four-year course achieved in three years with honors. She started to lecture and publish from her first year of Optometry school.

She has over 25 years of experience in optometry and specialty contact lenses. She is a clinical scientist at the Center for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) at the University of Waterloo, Canada, School of Optometry. She is internationally recognized as a key opinion leader, has several peer-reviewed publications in specialty contact lenses, and is a speaker at national and international symposia.

Daddi Fadel is the author of "Scleral Lens Issues and Complications: Their Recognition, Etiology, and Management" and, with Dr. Melissa Barnett, are authors of the “Clinical Guide for Scleral Lens Success,” which is translated into five languages.

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Recognitions

- Certified and approved advanced speaker to conduct NCLE approved courses

- First Certified EyePrint Practitioner outside the USA and Canada

- 2nd place clinical poster awards (poster awarded over more than 119 posters presented) at GSLS 2018, Las Vegas, USA “Novel scleral lens design with elliptical and toric corneal and limbal zones”

- Editor-in-Chief of the peer-review Journal of Contact Lens Research & Science (JCLRS)

- Founder and Immediate Past President of Accademia Italiana Lenti Sclerali (AILeS)

- Co-founder and President of Euro & Austral-Asia Scleral Lens Academy (EASLA)

- Global Ambassador, among other 14 ambassadors, of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA)

- Council of the International Society of Contact Lens Specialists (ISCLS)

- Member of the advisory board of the Gas Permeable Lens Institute (GPLI), representing only the second advisory board member outside of North America (joining Eef van der Worp)

- Member of the medical advisory board of the International Keratoconus Academy (IKA)

- Fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Society (SLES)

- Fellow of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA)

- Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO)

- Program Chair of the Summit of Specialty Contacts (SSC)- Co-chair of the meeting Global Ophthalmic Women (GLOW)

- Program Chair of The Summit of Specialty Contacts (SSC)

- Board Member of the International Forum for Scleral Lens Research (IFSLR)

- Board Member of the International Congress of Scleral Contact (ICSC)

- International Relations Chair of the Scleral Lens Education Society (SLS)

- Member of the International Association of Contact Lens Educator (IACLE)

- Clinical Advisor of Myopia Care (myopiacare.org)

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LOCAL SPONSORS

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Daddi Fadel is an internationally renowned specialty contact lens practitioner who has more than 23 years of clinical experience in specialty contact lenses. She has patients traveling from different countries, especially from Europe and the Middle East.

She delivered more than 100 lectures in symposiums around the world on specialty contact lenses.