José Antonio Fuentes
Optical Optometrist, Specialist in Low Vision.
Director of the Federopticos Fuentes Najas Center.
Graduated in Optics and Optometry from the Universities of Granada and Madrid. Master's in Behavioral Optometry from the Institute of Physiology in France.
Master's in Optometry from the Boston Center of Optometry
Official Master's Degree in Optometry and Vision Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid
Master's Degree in Optometry from the University of Seville
Low Vision Specialist from SUNY University (Lighthouse of NY)
Professor of Optometry and Low Vision at the European University of Madrid
Low Vision Professor of the Twenty/20 Master's in Optometry
Professor of Optometry and Low Vision at the University of Seville
Author and contributor in study and professional reference publications
Secretary of the Spanish Society of Specialists in Low Vision SEEBV
WORKSHOP
Management of the patient with fragile vision: Selection, Examination, and Rehabilitation Protocols for individuals with moderate visual impairment (MVI) and severe visual impairment (SVI).
The objective of this workshop is to familiarize students and vision professionals with the specific visual examination for individuals who suffer from a visual impairment significant enough to interfere with their daily living skills.
In this course, we will learn to work with patients whose main complaint is the loss of one or more components of visual function, which reduces their autonomy and/or their ability to perform daily tasks, whether it be seeing faces, reading, driving, or navigating in the kitchen... Patients for whom conventional prescription optometry cannot provide the functionality or satisfaction they seek.
We will see how some simple and low-cost procedures can allow us to understand the visual status of these patients. We will manage optical aids, whose characteristics we will learn about and analyze in order to prescribe and optimize their visual health.
Some patients will need to be appropriately referred to psychological, pharmacological, or surgical treatments. A large number should be seen in our consultations as they come referred due to the inability to improve with other treatments. Finally, we will encounter patients who come to our consultation as primary clinicians to address the vision problem they have recently experienced, or to improve their visual quality after undergoing some eye surgery.
