Name: Georgia Toliou
D.O.B : 13/03/1959, Liege, Belgium
Marital status: married with one child
   
QUALIFICATIONS  
Academic  
Graduated from High School with distinction 1976
Diploma of Optician – Optometrist three year course (Distinction) 1982
Institut D’ Optique Raymond Tibaut, Brussels  
   
Vocational  
Attended courses in Low Vision Aids
Zeiss, Germany		 1990
Vision Services and Keeler, England, in Low Vision Aids 1994
Attended course on scleral lenses
Procornea, Netherlands		 1994
Course in Low Vision Aids
Eschenbach, Germany		 1996
Instruction Course on Orthokeratology, SciOptic, New York, USA 2000
Lasik Course
Vlemma Institut		 2001
Instruction Course and Wet Lab on Lasik organised from
VEMMO Institut during the 17th Congress of HSIIRS		 2003
Sports Vision Course, Baltimore, U.S.A     2005
Language skills  
Diploma’s to equivalent of proficiency in French ( ‘ 75 ), Italian ( ’85 ), and German ( ’88 ),
fluent Greek, French, English and Italian		  
   
Computer skills  
Familiar with Windows XP and Microsoft Office.I have prepared several computer based presentations for exhibitions and congresses.  
   
WORK EXPERIENCE  
Employed as contact lens fitter in various Optician’s outlets in Thessaloniki Greece 1982 to 1987
Opened and managed Optician’s outlet specialising in contact lenses,Thessaloniki Greece 1987 to 1990
Opened and managed Optician’s outlet specialising in contact lenses
and Low Vision Aids, in collaboration with Ophthalmos Institute in Athens		 1990 to 2000
Worked as Optometrist and contact lens fitter in Ottika optical stores 2000 to 2002
Worked as optometrist responsable for all pre-op and post-op
examinations and operator for the Wavelight Allegretto 200
and 400 Eye – Q in Hypervision SA, Athens Greece		 2002 to 2005

Head Optometrist for Sports Vision Department and Laser Operator for
Ophthalmos Institute.
 

Head Optometrist for Emmetropia

2005-2007

 

2005 to today
Co – author to two contact lens books, participated as lecturer to congresses for opticians-optometrists and ophthalmologists in Greece and Italy and is also the author of many articles in newspapers and magazines.  
   
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS  
  • Delegate representing Greece to the European Council of Optometry and Optics .
  • President of the above mentioned organisation from 1996 to 2002
  • Member of the Panhellenic Association of Opticians-Optometrists
  • Member of the European Society of Opthalmic nurses and technicians