Optometrist
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Joana Marta is a highly qualified and dedicated Optometrist specialising in Specialty Contact Lenses at Moorfields Eye Hospital Dubai in Dubai Healthcare City.
She earned her Master’s degree in Advanced Optometry from the Optometry Center of Boston, Madrid, Spain, enhancing her expertise in this ever-evolving field.
With over 15 years of experience, Joana has served as a Specialist and Professional Service Consultant in Portugal, where she represented leading international contact lens manufacturers such as Ultravision and Bausch + Lomb in the UK, SynergEyes and CooperVision Specialty EyeCare in the United States. Her tenure in Portugal and Spain was marked by significant contributions to technical guidance and the promotion of best practices among eye care professionals, cementing her reputation as a leader committed to excellence.
Joana is also active in the Vision Sciences and Ocular Health Community, regularly attending training courses and speaking at conferences. Her ongoing commitment to education and professional development in her field is a testament to her dedication to advancing ocular health and vision sciences.
Astigmatism is a refractive condition in which the eye’s optical system is incapable of forming a point image for a point object (images are misconstrued).
Hypermetropia is a common refractive condition of the eye in which vision is better for distant objects than for near objects. It can be called far-sightedness or hypermetropia.
It results from the eyeball being smaller than average, causing images to be focused behind the retina. In hypermetropia, the light is focused too far back in the eye, behind the retina, which causes things to look blurred close-up.
Many very young children have mild hypermetropia that gets better by itself as they grow older.
Myopia is a common refractive condition commonly referred to as near or short sightedness. People with Myopia can see near objects clearly but distant objects are blurry. Myopia occurs when the cornea and lens focus the light in front of the retina instead of exactly on it, usually because the eye is a little larger than it should be.