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Dr Prof Mo Jalie, SMSA, FBDO (Hons), Hon FCGI Hon FCOptom,
MCMI, is a Visiting Professor of Optometry at the University of Ulster in
Coleraine, and at the post-graduate facility at Varilux University. He served
for nine years as Head of Department of Applied Optics at City & Islington
College, where he taught optics, ophthalmic lenses and dispensing. He
is a recognised international authority on spectacle lens design and has
written several books including Principles of Ophthalmic Lenses. His most
recent book, Ophthalmic Lenses & Dispensing was translated into Russian.
He has authored over 200 papers on ophthalmic, contact and intra-ocular
lenses, and on dispensing; and is a consultant editor to The Optician (UK)
and technical editor to The Indian Optician journal. He holds patents for
aspheric spectacle and intra-ocular lenses. Jalie is a past-chairman of the
Academic Committee of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians,
and was the first Chairman of the Faculty of Dispensing Opticians. He is
the ABDO representative on the BSI committees on ophthalmic lenses
and spectacle frames and a past member of the Education Committee
of the General Optical Council. In 1998 Jalie was thrice honoured: he was
made Honorary Fellow of the British College of Optometrists, a Life Fellow
of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians, and in December of
that year he was granted the Max Wiseman Memorial Research Medal.
Dr Prof Mo Jalie

he concept of relieving accommodation in young
eyes is not a new one. Several schools of thought
Thave emerged in the past from prescribing bifocals ,
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RESEARCH and more recently, progressive lenses , to children to
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UNDERTAKEN BY prevent long periods of accommodation and possibly
ciliary spasm, to the thought that prolonged near work
ESSILOR IN THEIR may lead to a kind of emmetropisation of the eye for near
MOTION & VISION vision. Accommodation for near objects is accompanied
(MOVIS) LABORATORY by convergence and a reduction in pupil size, the three
IN PARIS INDICATES effects often being referred to as the accommodative
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THAT SEVERAL reflex, near reflex or near triad .
DIFFERENT FACTORS In the last fifteen years near vision requirements
SHOULD BE TAKEN have switched from mainly viewing hard copy such as
papers and books, to viewing digital devices such as
INTO ACCOUNT WHEN smart phones, tablets, laptops and PC screens. Research
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DESIGNING SINGLE undertaken by Essilor in their Motion & Vision (MoVis)
VISION LENSES laboratory in Paris where trackers follow and analyse every
movement and change in posture of subjects viewing

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