Jonathan Shapiro

BSc, FCOptom, FAAO

Dr. Jonathan Shapiro has been in private practice for over 40 years. He is a Fellow of the British College of Optometry, the American Academy of Optometry and the European Academy of Optometry. He is a regular attendee at international conferences and has lectured and presented lectures and workshops in Israel, UK, USA, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada, Hungary and Spain. He specializes in the holistic approach to optometric treatment that includes posture, binocular balance, and cortical integration of the sensory systems. He has developed examination methods and treatment regimes, some of which have been published in leading journals. He has presented workshops in which he has introduced new instrumentation and new approaches to binocular balancing. Jonathan was instrumental in establishing the Department of Optometry at Hadassah College in Jerusalem, Israel. The Department has flourished, with a talented team of educators, and has a Bachelors and Masters program. Jonathan semi-retired from Hadassah College in 2015 and returned to his private practice, with his son, while continuing to give lectures and workshops.