Olwafijimi Akinyemi

Patient-driven Consultant Optometrist offering over thirty eight -years history of managing eye-clinics, lens surfacing lab and optical shop. Functions to optimize operations and foster superior organization-wide service delivery. Expert in patient care and business administration with success designing effective patient care and business models. Focused on continuous quality improvement and leadership development involving quality health planning and management models

Member-Nigerian Optometric Association

Certificate in Contact Lenses, Visioncare Institute United Arab Emirates, 07/01/2004

Establishment and management of a Lens Surfacing Lab and Optical Shop

• Communication
• Organisation
• Decision-making
• Interpersonal
• Teamwork
• Attention to detail
• Patience

• Clinic Management / Education
• Health management and planning
• Contact lenses-Manufacturing, Dispensing and Sales
• Lens Manufacturing, Sales and Dispensing

• Handling patients with a wide variety of eye disorders and offering appropriate solutions
• Taking patients to general eye examinations and recording the patient's medical history
• Assessing a patient's eyesight by conducting a visual acuity test and examining whether the eyes have refractive errors
• Providing contact lenses or spectacles that can help patients to have better vision
• Using the ophthalmoscope to observe and detect a wide range of eye-related diseases such as macular degeneration and glaucoma
• Checking for other diseases that are linked to eye functionality like hypertension and diabetes
• Writing prescriptions to help patients manage and treat a wide range of diseases
• Offering independent prescriptions, which occurs only after they have been certified by an independent prescribing qualification
• Participating in awareness programs to educate the public about eye diseases, how to prevent avoidable blindness and vision improvement methods
• Visiting schools, colleges and work areas to serve students and professionals by conducting visual assessments and making prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses
• Consistently conducting community outreach, especially in rural areas to educate people, particularly the poor, about certain eye conditions and their solutions
• Conducting healthcare research surveys to determine various things about the vision health of the general public

Title: Consultant Optometrist

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