IACLE ASIA PACIFIC

IACLE ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 2007 (10/09/2007)

IACLE ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL NEWSLETTER
AUGUST 2007

IACLE welcomes Ms Janaki Vaidyanathan, Dr.Meena Kharat, Mr.Rajesh Kumar, Dr.Benjamin Nongrum and Mr.Soumendra Nath Ghosh from India,
Ms.Wendy Hsin Yang from Taiwan,
Prof.Jin-Ah Shin and Mr.Byoung Sun Chu from South Korea and Mr.Zafar Ullah from Pakistan as IACLE Members.


IACLE ACCREDITATION EXAM

We would like to thank all the IACLE Members who have registered for the upcoming IACLE Accreditation Exam. The examination sites and the Test Supervisors in the respective regions have been arranged for the exam registrants in order to write the IACLE Accreditation Exam on 8th October 2007.

If the exam registrants have any queries regarding the IACLE Accreditation Exam, please write to admin@iacleindia.com

Asia Pacific regional members registered for the upcoming IACLE Accreditation Exam date are as follows:

India: 44
South Korea:3
Pakistan: 1
China: 28
Indonesia: 30
Nepal: 1
Taiwan: 4
Hong Kong: 1
Philippines: 8
Singapore: 3

Examination Sites throughout the region:

India:
1. L.V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad
2. Elite School of Optometry, Chennai
3. Lotus College of Optometry, Mumbai
4. Venu Eye Institute, New Delhi
5. Vidyasagar College of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Kolkata

South Korea:
1. Eulji University, South Korea

Pakistan:
1. Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Pakistan

Taiwan:
1. Taipei Professional Optometry Centre, Taiwan



IACLE OFFICE IN CHINA

We are pleased to announce that IACLE has set up the second China office at Tianjin Professional College in Tianjin. Wang Haiying (Helen) will be working closely with Qu Xiaomei, as a second China National Coordinator. Wang Cuiying (Nancy) will be providing administrative support to Helen.

Details of staff in the Tianjin office is as follows:
Wang Haiying, National Coordinator (rongrong9232002@yahoo.com.cn)
Wang Cuiying, Administrator (60586147@163.com)

We thank Professor Dong Gang, President of the Tianjin Professional College, who has provided office space and furniture and is supporting both Haiying and Cuiying in with their work with IACLE.


DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM (DLP)

We would like to remind all members (except in India and China) to send in their assignments to Cheni Lee (Assistant Asia Pacific Regional Coordinator) at cheni@cbn.net.id.

Currently we have 133 members from throughout the region participating in the DLP (MCQ format)

China: 40
Indonesia: 28
India: 34
Pakistan: 11
Philippines: 3
South Korea: 7
Taiwan: 4
Singapore: 3
Hong Kong: 1
Thailand: 1
Australia: 1

Members interested in registering for the DLP should contact their country coordinator or the Asia Pacific Regional Office. Further information about this program can be found on the IACLE website:

http://www.iacle.org/education_page/programs/distance_learning_program.asp .

For the enthusiastic members who have already completed Phase 2 of the DLP, phases 3 & 4 of the DLP in MCQ format are now available.


INDUSTRY SEMINARS AND PRODUCT INFORMATION DAYS

No IACLE Industry Seminars/Product Information Days held in August 2007



STUDENT TRIAL EXAMS

Industry personnel who wish to discuss opportunities to sponsor Student Trial Exams in countries throughout the region can write to Ms. Lakshmi Shinde at
krl@vsnl.com

The IACLE Student Trial Exams were held at the following institutions:

India
1. L.V Prasad Eye Institute: 8 July 2007
2. Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal: 11 August 2007

Indonesia
1. ARO Widya Husada: 20 June 2007
2. ARO Padang: 24 July 2007
3. ARO Medan: 9 July 2007
4. ARO Leprindo: 18 July 2007

China
1. TianJin Medical university : July 2007
2. Changzhou Health school : 24th June 2007
3. Beijing Polytechnical University : August 2007
4. China Medical University : June, 2007


The IACLE Student Trial Exam scheduled to be held at the following institutions in 2007:

South Korea:
1. Prof.In Suk Kim, Chodang University, South Korea: 14th September 2007
2. Konyang University, South Korea: 26th October 2007
3. Masan College, South Korea: 5th November 2007
4. Daegu Health Science College: 16th November 2007
5. Eulji University, South Korea: 23rd November 2007
6. Seoul National University of Technology, South Korea: 27th November 2007
7. Yeojoo Institute of Technology, South Korea: 28th November 2007
8. Daebul University, South Korea: 28th November 2007

China:
1. West China Medical university - October 2007
2. Shenyang medical university Shenyang heshi optometry college-Nov.2007
3. Wenzhou Medical College November 2007
4. Jinling institute of technology , 18th October 2007
5. TianJin Professional University December 2007


IACLE would like to thank the Asia Pacific members for their support and encouragement. If you have any suggestions or comments regarding this newsletter please e-mail us at cheni@cbn.net.id, admin@iacleindia com, or iacle@iacle.org

That's all for this month.

IACLE AP Region
Lakshmi Shinde, Cheni Lee & Qu XiaoMei
Asia-Pacific Coordinators
IACLE Asia Pacific Office
c/- Shinde Eye Care Centre, #5&6,
Vasu Complex,
New B.E.L Road,
R.M.V. 2nd Stage,
Bangalore 560 054
Phone: +91-80-23513449
Mobile: +91-0-9880200249
Fax: +91-80-23513449
Email: admin@iacleindia.com, krl@vsnl.com
Website: www.iacle.org

IACLE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE INDUSTRY SPONSORS WHO SUPPORT GLOBAL CONTACT LENS EDUCATION

CIBA Vision
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc.
Bausch & Lomb
CooperVision Inc.
AMO
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