Daddi Fadel DOptom
Clinical Scientist, CORE
Daddi Fadel DOptom, FSLS, FBCLA, FAAO, FIACLE, is a clinical scientist at the Center for Ocular Research and Education (CORE) and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She is a Pioneer of modern lens designs and a specialist in contact lenses for irregular cornea, scleral lenses, myopia control, and orthokeratology. She studied optometry at Istituto Superiore di Scienze Optometriche (ISSO) in Rome (1998-2001), a four-year course achieved in three years with honors.
She started to lecture and publish in her first year of Optometry school. She has more than 26 years of experience in optometry and specialty contact lenses.
She is internationally recognized as a key opinion leader who has several peer-reviewed publications in the area of specialty contact lenses and lectures extensively in 5 languages in national and international symposia.
Daddi Fadel and Dr. Melissa Barnett are authors of the "Clinical Guide for Scleral Lens Success". Daddi Fadel is the author of the book "Scleral Lens Complications: Their Recognition, Etiology, and Management".
She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contact Lens Research & Science (JCLRS).
She is a certified and approved advanced speaker to conduct NCLE-approved courses. She is the first Certified EyePrint Practitioner outside the USA and Canada.
Fadel is a Fellow of the Scleral Lens Education Society (SLS), the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA), the American Academy of Optometry (AAO), and the International Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE).
She is the Founder of the European School of Scleral Lenses (EUROSCOLE), the Global Ophthalmic Women (GLOW), and The Summit of Specialty Contacts (SSC).
Fadel is also a Global Ambassador of the BCLA, a member of the GPLI Advisory Board, a member of the medical advisory board of the International Keratoconus Academy (IKA), a board member of the International Forum for Scleral Lens Research (IFSLR)), a clinical advisor of Myopia Care, and an international relations chair of the Scleral Lens Education Society (SLS).