ICEH alumni: Europe

Details for alumni working in the WHO Europe region, with links to dissertation summaries and career overviews. This list is incomplete. If you are a past Certificate, Diploma or Master's student, please email Elizabeth.Mercer@Lshtm.ac.uk with your details and we will be pleased to add you to the list.    

ICEH ALUMNI BY REGION

Europe

Czech Republic

Name / Details Dissertation / Proposal Doc. Course Year

Ivo Kocur
kocuri@who.int
Ophthalmologist

Cause of Childhood Severe Visual Impairment and Blindness in Czech Republic

MSc

1999

Germany

Name / Details Dissertation / Proposal Doc. Course Year

Regina Gobel
reginagoebel@yahoo.com
Senior Registrar, Sweden

Barriers to Uptake of Cataract and Trachoma Trichiasis Surgery

MSc

2001

Kazakhstan

Name / Details Dissertation / Proposal Doc. Course Year

Yuliya Semenova
yuliyasemenova@hotmail.com
Clinical Ophthalmology Lecturer

Cataract: Evaluation of Cataract Services in Kazakhstan

MSc

 

Norway

Name / Details Dissertation / Proposal Doc. Course Year

Ruth Riise
ruthr@online.no
Consultant

 

DCEH

1987

Spain

Name / Details Dissertation / Proposal Doc. Course Year

Galo Aquirre
galusgali@yahoo.es
Family and Community Medicine Practitioner

Why Do People Not Come For Cataract Surgery in Nakuru, Kenya?
Dissertation summary

MSc

2005

Sweden

Name / Details Dissertation / Proposal Doc. Course Year

Roger Sidestam
roger.sidestam@dll.se
Senior Consultant Ophthalmologist

 

DCEH

1985

Switzerland

Name / Details Dissertation / Proposal Doc. Course Year

Daniel Etya'ale
etyaaled@who.ch
Ophthalmologist, WHO, Geneva
Career overview

Assessing the Needs for the Training of Ophthalmic Manpower in French-speaking Africa

MSc

1995

The Netherlands

Name / Details Dissertation / Proposal Doc. Course Year

Hans Limburg
hlimburg@quicknet.nl
Consultant in Public Eye Health

The Eye in Primary Health Care

DCEH

1988

Margreet Hogeweg
mhogeweg@compuserve.com
Ophthalmologist, Medical Adviser to CBM CEARO office, Bangkok, Medical Adviser to Netherlands Leprosy Relief

 

DCEH

1986

UK

Name / Details Dissertation / Proposal Doc. Course Year

Heidi Laviers
laviers@hotmail.com

The prevalence of presbyopia and the feasibility of community distribution of near spectacles in adults in Zanzibar, East Africa
Dissertation summary

MSc

2007

Katherine Pearson
kepearson@doctors.org.uk
Ophthalmologist

Management of Primary Angle closure glaucoma, Mongolia DCEH 2006

Prasanthi Puvanachandra
prasanthi1@gmail.com
Medical Doctor

Establishment of a Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme in Jaffna, Sri Lanka DCEH 2006

Nita Odedra
nodedra@hotmail.com
Optometrist

Developing a Glaucoma Management Programme for Belize

MSc

2005

Deram Saied
deramsaied@hotmail.com
Ophthalmologist, doing PhD at University of Manchester

Cataract: Evaluation of cataract surgery in the eye surgical hospital Damascus - Syria

MSc

2002

Mohammad Abdul Muhit
mohammad.muhit@lshtm.ac.uk
Ophthalmologist, Lecturer LSHTM

A Study to Develop and Validate a New Test to Assess Functional Vision in Children

MSc

2000

Ellen Schwartz
ecschartz@doctors.org.uk
Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine

Onchocerciasis: A Population Based Survey to Determine Coverage of an Ivermectin Distribution Programme in Bossangoa Central African Republic

MSc

1996

Andrew Cassels-Brown
andy_b@hotmail.com
Consultant in Community Eye Health - Vision 2020 Leeds

Clinical decision making for cataract referrals in the National Health Service, West Yorkshire, UK

MSc

1999

Daksha Patel
Daksha.Patel@Lshtm.ac.uk
Ophthalmologist - MSc courses organiser, ICEH

A Pilot Study into the Barriers to Uptake of Eye Care Services by the Indian Immigrant Population Living in London

MSc

1999

George Rutten
Patient and Public Involvement Facilitator

Blind Spot of Spotting Blindness, A Study into the Attitudes, Beliefs and Experiences of and About Blind People in an Urban Setting in the Gambia

MSc

1995

Lynne Ruth Ager
lynne.mccurry@bigfoot.com
Optometrist

Identifying Children with Low Vision who Benefit From a Magnifier – A Visual Assessment of Children at Schools for the Blind in Colombia and Ecuador

MSc

1994

Abdirisak Ahmed Mohamed (Dalmar)
drdalmar@yahoo.co.uk
Medical Doctor

 

MSc

1994

Marcia Zondervan
marcia.zondervan@lshtm.ac.uk
Vision 2020 Links Programme Manager

What Do Mothers, Other Carers and Heath Workers Think and Do About Childhood Eye Problems in Bawku District, Ghana: Proposal for field Research Using Qualitative methods

DCEH

1991