Menachem Salasnik

BSc(Hons) MCOptom CIDC

Menachem Salasnik has been a principal optometrist at Barnard Levit since 2000. He is a Low Vision Consultant and Geriatric Optometry Specialist with years of experience working in the Specialist Clinic at the Institute of Optometry and in the Low Vision clinics at Central Middlesex Hospital and the South London Vision Resource Centre in Guys Hospital. As well as being the practitioner of choice for Senior Citizens within our practice, he also currently heads the Low Vision Departments in Watford and St Albans Hospitals. He has lectured widely on the topic of Low Vision and the Aging Eye both in the UK and internationally.

More recently, he has been involved on a consultancy basis with a pioneering project based at Ben Gurion University and the Holon Institute in Israel where the principles of image enhancement, magnification and projection are being used to construct a compact, low-weight  low vision goggle that is critically needed for the visually impaired.

Mr. Salasnik is one of the only optometrists in the country to have received a Certificate in Diabetic Care from Warwick University as part of a multidisciplinary approach to improving diabetic care in England.

Apart from his main speciality, he also particularly enjoys working with children and was the recipient of the Adrian Evans Memorial Prize from the Institute of Optometry in 2001 for exceptional skills in clinical paediatric optometry.