Orthoptics

Miss Karla Tocher BSc (Hons)

Karla Qualified as an orthoptist in 1996 from Glasgow Caledonian University. She went on to work at the Sussex Eye Hospital before taking up a part time research post at the National Hospital for Neurology at Queens Square in 1999.

Karla is Deputy Head Orthoptist at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital since 2000. Miss Tocher Leads the Community Vision Screening project for Lambeth rising five year olds.

Miss Tocher is involved in a vision 20/20 exchange with Muhimbili Hospital in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and visited in 2008 and 2009.

Miss Tocher specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of ocular motility disorders and the development of children’s vision, including amblyopia (lazy eye), squint, eye muscle imbalance and double vision. She has extensive experience in assessing simple and complex paediatric and adult ocular motility patients.

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