The Education Committee was formed to oversee the Association's provision of education and monitor - and provide advice to the GOC over - the regulations governing practitioners and their Continuing Education and Training requirements. The committee will also deliver the Board of Directors' strategy on revalidation.
The Committee Chairman is David Shannon, an optometrist from London, who is also Chairman of the Optometry Today Management Committee. OT is the UK's biggest provider of CET.
Ed Bickerstaffe, an optometrist from Bristol
Ruth Cuthbert, an optometrist from Preston
John Goacher, an optometrist from Leeds
Pat Leaning, an optometrist from London
Gale Leslie, an optometrist from Glasgow
Vicky O'Connor, pre-registration student from Nottingham
Hema Radhakrishnan, an optometrist and lecturer from Manchester
Karen Sparrow, a co-opted member and an optometrist from Kent
David Whitaker, a professor of optometry from Bradford
Lynn White, an optometrist from Norfolk
Nicholas Wingate, an optomerist from Hertfordshire
Queries concerning the Education Committee should be sent to David Craig
