Daddi Fadel DOptom, FSLS, FBCLA, FAAO, FIACLE

Daddi Fadel DOptom, FSLS, FBCLA, FAAO, FIACLE, is a clinical scientist at the Center for Ocular Research and Education (CORE) and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She is a Pioneer of modern lens designs and a specialist in contact lenses for irregular cornea, scleral lenses, myopia control, and orthokeratology. She studied optometry at Istituto Superiore di Scienze Optometriche (ISSO) in Rome (1998-2001), a four-year course achieved in three years with honors. 

She started to lecture and publish in her first year of Optometry school. She has more than 27 years of experience in optometry and specialty contact lenses. 

She is internationally recognized as a key opinion leader who has several peer-reviewed publications in the area of specialty contact lenses and lectures extensively in 5 languages in national and international symposia. 

Daddi Fadel and Dr. Melissa Barnett are authors of several books: The “Clinical Guide for Scleral Lens Success” first and second editions, and of the “Specialty Contact Lenses”. Daddi Fadel is the author of the book “Scleral Lens Complications: Their Recognition, Etiology, and Management”. 

She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contact Lens Research & Science (JCLRS).

She is a certified and approved advanced speaker to conduct NCLE-approved courses. She is the first Certified EyePrint Practitioner outside the USA and Canada. 

She is the Founder of the European School of Scleral Lenses (EUROSCOLE), the Global Ophthalmic Women (GLOW), and The Summit of Specialty Contacts (SSC). 

Fadel is also the Chair of the Global Ambassadors of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA), a member of the GPLI Advisory Board, a member of the medical advisory board of the International Keratoconus Academy (IKA), and a clinical advisor of Myopia Care.