The Tear Film and Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) has conducted two prior international, consensus building workshops; the Dry Eye WorkShop (DEWS) and the Meibomian Gland Dysfunction Workshop (MGD). In 2012 TFOS initiated the process of conducting a similar workshop to investigate the issue of contact lens discomfort (CLD), an important issue for both patients and practitioners. This workshop included 79 experts in the field. These experts participated in one or more topical subcommittees, and were assigned with taking an evidence-based approach at evaluating CLD.
Several current and former members of the CCLR were involved in the workshop. Dr. Lyndon Jones was appointed to the CLD Workshop steering committee and was also chair of the Contact Lens Materials, Design, and Care Subcommittee; Dr. Kathy Dumbleton was chair of the Epidemiology Subcommittee; Dr. Desmond Fonn was a member of the Definition and Classification Subcommittee; Dr. Lakshman Subbaraman was on the Contact Lens Materials, Design, and Care Subcommittee; Dr. Ulli Stahl was on the Contact Lens Interactions with the Tear Film Subcommittee; Drs. Trefford Simpson, Nancy Keir and Craig Woods were on the Clinical Trial Design and Outcomes Subcommittee; and Dr. Sruthi Srinivasan was on the Management and Therapy Subcommittee.
This report is published in the November 2013 Special Edition of Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science.
Members of the subcommittees who presented the results of the workshop at the TFOS conference in Taormina, Scicily in September 2013.
Back row: Jennifer Craig (New Zealand), Kathy Dumbleton (Canada), Kelly Nichols (USA), Fiona Stapleton (Australia) and Desmond Fonn (Canada). Front row: Eric Papas (Australia), Nathan Efron (Australia), Lyndon Jones (Canada) and Jason Nichols (USA).
