Professor Norman Button

Eye Clinic Director, Professor, Registered Optometrist

ROOM: A143
T: +44 (0)141 331 3131
F: +44 (0)141 331 3834
E: n.button@gcu.ac.uk

Administrative responsibilities

• Member of University Disciplinary Panel
• Member Vision Sciences Departmental and Programme Boards
• Member Vision Sciences Progress & Awards Boards.

Teaching

• Module leader General Optometric Practice
• Clinical Studies
• Contact Lens Studies
• Final Year Honours Project Supervision.

Education

• Eye Clinic Director 1994
• Senior Lecturer Department of Vision Sciences 1988
• Awarded Ph.D1986
  • Clinical Manifestations of Corneal Metabolic Disturbances During Contact Lens Wear
• Lecturer Dept Ophthalmic Optics, Glasgow College of Technology 1976
• Diploma in Contact Lens Practice 1976
• Registered Optometrist 1976
• Graduated Glasgow College of Technology 1975 1st Class Honours Ophthalmic Optics.

Publications

Gavin J, Button NF. (1995) Efficacy of standard disinfectant test methods for contact lens care solutions. J. Biodeterioration Biodegradation 36: 431-440.

Crombie M, Button NF (1996) Sphygmomanometry within optometry. Part 1. British J Optometry Dispensing 3: 124-127.

Crombie M, Button NF (1996) Sphygmomanometry within optometry. Part 2. British J Optometry Dispensing 4: 20-25.

Zaman M. Doughty M.J. Button N.F(1999) The exposed ocular surface and its relationship to spontaneous eyeblink rate in elderly caucasians. Exp. Eye. Res. 1998 67: 681- 686.

Price, EL, Gray, LS, and Button, NF,(1999) Sources of variation in the measurement of pulsatile ocular blood flow in normal subjects. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 1999. 40(4): p. 2678 Abstract.

Gavin.J, Button N.F., Watson-Craik I, Logan N.(2000) Observation of Soft Contact Lens Disinfection with Fluorescent Metabolic Stains. Appl & Env. Microbiology 2000 p874-875.

Doughty M.J, Blades K, Button N.F. Wilson G. Further analysis of the size and shape of cells obtained by impression cytology from the exposed portion of the human bulbar conjunctiva. Ophthal. Physiol Opt. 2000, Vol 20. No. 5, pp391-400

Doughty MJ, Zaman M, Button N.F.(2001) Video-assessment of tear meniscus height in elderly Caucasians and its relationship to the exposed ocular surface. Current Eye Res. 2001, Vol.22,No.6, pp420-426.

Doughty MJ, Laiquzzaman M, Muller A, Oblak E, Button NF (2002) Central corneal thickness in European (white) individuals, especially children and the elderly, and assessment of its possible importance in clinical measures of intraocular pressure. Ophthalmic Physiological Optics 22, 491-504.

Doughty MJ, Laiquzzaman M, Oblak E, Button N (2002) The tear (lacrimal) meniscus height in human eyes: a useful clinical measure or an unusable variable sign ?. Contact Lens Anterior Eye 25, 57-65.

Price EL, Gray LS, Hujmphries L, Zweig C, Button NF (2003) Effect of exercise on intraocular pressure and pulsatile ocular blood flow in a young normal population. Optom Vis Sci 80, 460-466

Doughty MJ, Nasse T, Donald C, Hamilton L, Button NF.(2004) Visualisation of 'Marx's Line' along the marginal eyelid conjunctiva of human subjects with lissamine green dye. Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, 24: 1-7

Professional Memberships

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology