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Email: magne.helland@hibu.no
Telephone (office): +47 32 86 96 50
Telephone (switchboard): +47 32 86 95 00
Fax: +47 32 86 96 71


Biography

Magne Helland's first contact with the optometric profession was in 1977 when he entered a one year course in dispensing optics at Tinius Olsens School at Kongberg. After this he applied for a two year optometry program at Kongsberg College of Engineering, Department of Optometry where he got his professional diploma in 1980. He then worked in privat practice in Oslo for some years. During this time he qualified as a contact lens pratitioner which is a law regulated professional speciality in Norway. In 1983 he got a temporary position as a lecturer at what is still the only optometry education in Norway - today Buskerud University College, Department of Optometry and Visual Science. He has ever since had his main position at this educational institution. In 1986 he fullfilled a B.Sc.-degree in optometry at The City University in London, and in 2000 he got a M.Sc.-degree in clinical optometry at Pennsylvania College of Optometry. During his optometric career Helland has also worked as an optometrist at a hospital eye department, as the secretary general and professional adviser of the Norwegian Optometric Association, and also acted as the Head of Department at the school of optometry. 
As a professional Magne has followed the evolution of information technology within the profession, and in 2001 he underwent a course in Internet Communication and Cyberdemocracy at the Norwegian School of Management BI in Oslo. He is the founder of Optometriforum, a digital Internet- and e-mail based forum for Norwegian optometrists. He has been a member of the Internet board and a News Editor for the Norwegian Optometric Association from 1999, and is today also responsible for the departmental webpages ... you are visiting now.  
 
Optometric areas of special interest

Occupational optometry, contact lenses, dry eyes, blinking, health politics and optometry, international optometry, optometric education and didactics, e-learning ... and optometry related humour

Recent publications/presentations

• Helland (2007): Contact lens prescribing – Scandinavia versus the World. Sheared presentation together with Philip Morgan at the Nordic Conference in Contact Lenses and Anterior Eye, Kongsberg, Norway, 20.-22. April
• Helland (2007): Contact lens sales through the Internet. Panel discussion with Philip Morgan, Ross Grant and Malin Sundström - Chaired by Gro H. Vikesdal, Kongsberg, Norway, 20.-22. April
• Morgan PB, Woods CA, Jones D, Efron N, Tan K-O, Gonzalez MY, Pesinova A, Grein H-J, Runberg S-E, Tranoudis IG, Chandrinos A, Fine P, Montani G, Marani E, Itoi M, Bendoriene J, van der Worp E, Helland M, Phillips G, Belousov V, Barr JT (2007): International Contact Lens Prescribing 2006. Contact Lens Spectrum, Jan./No. 1 
• Helland M (2007): The Mekka for the Optometric Profession. Optikeren, No. 1, 18-19
• Helland M, Gladhus L (2007): First aid in optometric practice – Part 3; Anaphylaxis. Optikeren, No. 1, 38-45
• Helland M, Horgen G, Kvikstad TM, Aaraas A (2006): Do background luminance levels or character size affect the eye blink rate during VDU work for young adults? American Academy of Optometry, Proceedings from meeting in Denver, USA, December
• Graven OH, Helland M, MacKinnon L (2006): The influence of staff use of a virtual learning environment on student satisfaction.  Proceedings ITHET : 7th Annual International Conference, ISBN 1424404061
• Gladhus L, Helland M (2006): First aid in optometric practice – Part 2;  CPR. Optikeren, No. 7, 22-26
• 2006: Do background luminance levels or character size affect the eye blink rate during VDU work for young adults? American Academy of Optometry, Denver, USA, 7. December

CV (detailed version)

Memberships;

The Norwegian Optometric Association (Norges Optikerforbund) (NOF) (member from 1981)
The British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) (member from 1987)
International Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE) (member from 1988, fellow from 1996)

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Last updated: 31. May 2007 (Magne Helland)