Dirk Booysen
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+27 11 954 1000
Email
dirk@dirkbooysen.co.za
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Full scope practice including contact lenses, paediatrics, diabetic care, ocular therapeutics, optical dispensing

Academic & research, lecturer contact lenses University of Johannesburg, advisor Alcon, B&L, Coopervision, J&J. Two books published: In Contact: Clinical contact lens practice (2018), South African Guide to topical ophthalmic drugs (3rd Ed 2016). Numerous papers at local and international conferences as well as publications. Editor of Vision Journal.

• The intricacies of Dry Eye Disease and its treatment. Submitted for publication on request of MIMS publication. January 2015 (Peer Reviewed)
• Myopia control. MIMS publication Feb 2016
• Management of Keratoconus and Corneal Graft with the use of Rigid Gas Permeable Semi-Scleral (Corneo-scleral) Contact Lenses. Vision magazine, February 2016. CPD accredited
• Management of Pellucid Marginal Degeneration and Keratoconus with the use of Rigid Gas Permeable Corneal and Gas Permeable Mini-Scleral Contact Lenses. Vision Magazine, June 2016. CPD accredited
• Use of a Rigid Gas Permeable Mini-Scleral Contact Lens for the Visual Rehabilitation of Localised Corneal Leukoma Adherens. Vision magazine, April/May 2016. CPD accredited
• Research ethics for clinicians and non-academics, Vision magazine 2017
• Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) for the treatment of (Meibomian Gland Dysfunction) MGD and DED (Dry Eye Disease), Vision Magazine 2017
• Done at minus one, Myopia control, Vision magazine 2017
• What is the Role of Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Keratoconus, Vision Magazine 2017
• The use of bandage lenses in optometric practice, Vision Magazine 2018
• Primary Descemetorhexis without graft placement for type 1 Peters, Canadian Journal of Ophthalmologyl, Co-authored wit Roland Hollhumer, 2018
• What is the Effect of a Contact Lens on the Tear Film? Co-authored with final year student Sasha Lee Price, Vision Magazine 2018

Location

248 Voortrekker Rd, Monument, Krugersdorp, 1739, South Africa