Dr. Penny J. D'Ath

Lecturer: Clinical Skill module co-ordinator

 

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7040 4301 
Email: P.J.D'Ath@city.ac.uk 

 
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Academic and Professional Qualifications / Membership

2008      Ph.D

2003      MCOptom
2002      BSc (Hons) Optometry, City University
1999      FBDO Ophthalmic Dispensing, City and Islington College
1989      BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Hertfordshire

Memberships

2003      General Optical Council     
2002      Association of Optometrists      
1999      British Association of Dispensing Opticians          

Career Outline

Feb 2004 -    Lecturer, City University
Aug 2003      Research Optometrist, City University

July 2002       Pre-registration Optometrist, Moorfields Eye Hospital
1999-2001     Locum Dispensing Optician

1997-1999     Trainee Dispensing Optician

1996 - 1997   Trainee Dispensing Optician

1993 - 1996   Research Psychologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital
1991-1992     Research Analyst, St Albans City Hospital

Programme-related teaching responsibilities

  • Module co-ordinator 2nd year Clinical Skills
  • Clinical Skills second year
  • Third year refraction clinic
  • Visual impairment clinic

Administrative responsibilities

  • Module co-ordinator 2nd year Clinical Skills

Professional Activities outside the University

  • Locum optometrist
  • Expert witness (civil and criminal)

Research Interests

  • Investigation into the legibility of fonts for VDU users

  • Investigation of the potential value of colour for low vision patients
  • Development of a series of visual performance tests to quantify the visual efficiency or patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa when using coloured filters
  • Development of a series of visual performance tests to quantify the visual efficiency of computer users
  • Development of efficient and reliable algorithms for determining the optimum colour of computer screens
  • Investigation of the proportion of computer users who are likely to gain a significant benefit from screen colour optimization
  • Investigation of the benefits of customised screen colour for Meares-Irlen Syndrome
  • Investigation of the limits of memory for the hue of coloured illumination
  • Psychiatric morbidity in people undergoing cataract surgery

Details of 3 recent publications

  • The effects of screen colour on asthenopic symptoms and visual performance in a normal population of display screen users and a sample of Meares-Irlen subjects.  Penny J D'Ath, David Thomson, Natalie Owens and Arnold Wilkins (In preparation)

  • Memory for the Color of Non-Monochromatic Lights.

    Penny J D'Ath , David Thomson and Arnold Wilkins Accepted for publication by Color Research and Application (in press, Feb 2007)

  • Pre-operative psychiatric morbidity in people undergoing cataract surgery. Penny J D'Ath, Ramanathan Kirthivasan, Cornelius LE Katona, Alison L Finlay, Journal of Polish Psychiatry, March 2004