Cyril Kahloun, MOptom.

Director of General Clinic of Optometry and Senior Teacher

Cyril Kahloun, MOptom.

Cyril Kahloun is the director of the General Clinic of Optometry and a Senior Teacher at Hadassah Academic College (Jerusalem, Israel).

He is a licensed optometrist in Israel with a Bachelor and a Master of Optometry and Vision Science from Hadassah Academic College.

He acquired 10 years’ experience and clinical skills at Shaarei Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem and since 2004, he is a private practice owner in the heart of Jerusalem.
Between 2008 and 2014, he was a member of the practical examination board of optometry for the Israeli Ministry of Health.

His interactive lectures focus on clinical case analysis and evidence-based practice for making decisions for patient optometric care.

Among his practical fields: specialty contact lenses, irregular corneas and keratoconus, low vision rehabilitation and complex optometric clinical cases.
As a clinical director, he brought many innovations in order to modernize the way of thinking about the clinics, students and patient care.

Contact

cyrilka@hac.ac.il
+972-2-6291911

Evidence-Based practice of optometry and case studies.
Validation of ophthalmic instruments.

Gordon-Shaag A., Pinero D., Kahloun C., Markov D., Parnes T., Gantz L., and Shneor E. (2017). Validation of refraction and anterior segment parameters by a new multi-diagnostic platform (VX120). Journal of Optometry, 11(4):242-251. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29526690
Shames H, Goldberg S, Kahloun C., Fine P, Gal E, Rosen D, Goldstein J, Gordon-Shaag A. (2013). Self induced digital pressure associated with significant transient corneal distortions in a pediatric patient – A multi disciplinary approach. Journal of Optometry, 6(4): 219–224.