Eilin Lundanes

Eilin Lundanes

PhD Candidate
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
Department of Optometry, Radiography and Lighting Design
Campus Kongsberg (5332)

Responsibilities

  • Teaching / supervision of clinical procedures and skills at bachelor's and master's level
  • Course coordinator for Advanced contact lens fitting (MSKL019)
  • Course coordinator for Clinical optometric practice for authorized opticians (MSKL4119) (shared with Therese B. Martiniussen)
  • Specialty Clinic: Advanced contact lens fitting
  • Project employee in MiSight; Project investigating whether MiSight contact lens slows the development of myopia in teenagers / young adults
  • Project employee in KORQ-NO; Validation of a Norwegian translation of a keratoconus-specific questionnaire

Competences

  • Clinical optometry
  • Advanced contact lens fitting, including rigid contact lenses, scleral lenses, orthokeratology and myopia management

CV

Education:

  • 2005-2007: Master of Optometry, University of New South Wales
  • 2005-2006: Specialist education in contact lens fitting, Buskerud University College
  • 2001-2004: Bachelor in Optometry, Buskerud University College (2004)

Work:

  • 2018-present: Senior Engineer, University of Southeast Norway
  • 2012-2015: Optometrist, Specsavers Kongsberg
  • 2004-2010: Optometrist, Interoptik Optika

Publications

Lundanes, E. & Gustafsson, J. (2020) Refitting a patient with pellucid marginal degeneration from a corneal rigid gas permeable lens to scleral lens, Scandinavian Journal of Optometry and Visual Science, 13(1), doi: 10.5384/sjovs.vol13i1p19-23