Catalogue Number: 2021 Contact lens complications Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: EFRON, Nathan Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 2012 Edition: 3rd edition Time Period: 21st C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Printed in China Publisher/Manufacturer: Elsevier Saunders Description Of Item: Quarto hardback, colour illustrated front cover, 218 pages, copiously illustrated in colour Historical Significance: First and second editions are Cat No 1675 and 1677. The author, Nathan Efron, obtained his BOptom at the University of Melbourne in 1976 and studied for a PhD degree also at the University of Melbourne under Dr (later Professor ) Leo Carney obtaining it in 1982. After post docs at the University of California with Dr Ken Polse and at the University of NSW with Professor Brien Holden he returned to the University of Melbourne as lecturer in 1984. In 1990 he was appointed professor of clinical optometry at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He subsequently was appointed a research professor at Queensland University of Technology in 2004 . Professor Efron is a leading figure in contact lens and cornea research and has published many research articles and books.See his profile Clin Exp Optom 2005; 88: 6: 430-433. How Acquired: Donated by Nathan Efron Date Acquired: July 2012 Condition: Mint Location: Archive room. East wall. Books by Australian authors |