Dr Aachal Kotecha

Lecturer

Aachal Kotecha 

(020) 7040 3898
aachal.Kotecha.1@city.ac.uk

 

 

Academic and professional qualifications / memberships

2003PhD
1991GOC registration
1990BSc (Hons) Optometry (Class I honours)

Brief outline of career history

2006-Lecturer, Department of Optometry and Visual Science, City University, London
2003-2005Post-doctorate Research Fellow, Glaucoma Research Unit, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
2001-2003Continuing Research Student, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London
1996-2001MRC Research Optometrist, Wound Healing Group (now Ocular Repair and Regeneration Biology), Department of Pathology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London
1991-1995Optometrist, then Senior Optometrist, Mayday Hospital, Croydon
1990-1991Pre-registration optometrist, Mayday Hospital, Croydon

Administrative responsibilities

  • Module co-ordinator: 03 Clinical Skills and Glaucoma
  • Facilitator: MSc Glaucoma module
  • Moorfields liaison
  • Head of cohort 2006

Professional activities outside the University

  • Senior Research Associate, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London (2 days per week)
  • Specialist Optometrist in Glaucoma, Ophthalmology department, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London (0.5 days per week)
  • Invited speaker: ‘Corneal biomechanics and IOP measurement- implications for glaucoma management’ European Association for Vision and Eye Research, October 1 – October 4 2008, Portoroz, Slovenia
  • Invited speaker: ‘Measurement of visual disability in Glaucoma’, 8th European Glaucoma Society Congress, June 1 – June 6 2008, Berlin, Germany
  • Invited speaker: ‘What corneal biomechanical properties are relevant to the clinician?’ Fundamental Sciences in Glaucoma, October 12 2006 - October 13 2006, Organised by Professor Josef Flammer, Basel, Switzerland.

Research interests

  • Quality of life in glaucoma
  • Corneal biomechanics in glaucoma
  • Role of optometrists in glaucoma primary care

Selected publications

  • Kotecha A, O’Leary N, Melmoth D, Grant S and Crabb DP (2008). The functional consequences of glaucoma for eye-hand co-ordination. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. Epub ahead of print.
  • Kotecha A (2007). What biomechanical properties of the cornea are relevant for the clinician? Surv Ophthalmol. 52(6 Suppl):S109-14.
  • Kotecha A, Elsheikh A, Roberts CR, Zhu H and Garway-Heath DF (2006). Corneal thickness- and age-related biomechanical properties of the cornea, measured with the ocular response analyzer. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 47(12):5337-47.