Dr. Priscilia Uhuanmwen Imade is a Doctor of Optometry who has garnered an O.D. (1999), an MSc. Public Health (2010) and a Ph.D. in Public Health (2019), across three universities in Nigeria and South America. She has attended and taken part in many local and international conferences, workshops and seminars. Though acquired at a high personal cost, her repertoire of skills has been shared freely with many other optometrists through her training of interns and presentations at Nigerian Optometric Association conferences, educating and advancing the practice of optometry nationally and internationally.
Dr. Priscilia Imade has extended her wealth of knowledge in eye care to the general populace through several advocacy and public education. With her Ph.D. in Public Health, she is very research-oriented and eager to change her world through targeted public health and eye care research. With notable publications to her credit, her other areas of interest include media advocacy, public education, and local and international presentations.
She is the immediate past chairperson of Women Optometrists in Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter, and currently the national secretary of Women Optometrists in Nigeria (National). She is also the immediate past assistant national secretary of the Nigerian Optometric Association and the vice president of optometry in the Health Care Providers Association of Nigeria. Through the different portfolios, Priscilla occupies in the eye care industry, she has made guest appearances in other media agencies, discussing eye health and the prevention of avoidable blindness in Nigeria.
Dr. Imade reviews publications, books, newspapers, bulletins, and magazines. She is dynamic and proactive, able to transmit knowledge through training courses and provides public health consultancy services through several visible platforms. An organizer of several occupational health, safety, and eye health talks/seminars/workshops for various institutions, organizations (local and international), schools, churches, and clubs, she provides consultancy services and occupational eye health and safety for several driving schools and multinational companies. These have contributed to creating awareness of eye health, advocating how much and how well a good knowledge of preventing visual impairments can benefit society. Dr. Imade has also received several recognition awards for her invaluable contributions.
Dr. Priscilia Imade is an on air personality with regular eye health programs across different media houses in Nigeria. She features weekly (Thursdays at 4:30pm) on the program tagged “Eyes on the Road”, a premium program on Lagos Traffic Radio 96.1 FM in Lagos State. She anchored Eye Care with Dr. Priscilia Imade on the Lagos State Television, Eye Care on Bumper Breakfast on Murhi International Television and Eye Care Guest on Star 101.5 FM. On Dove Media Television she features on the program, Healthy Living, where she anchors the Eye-Health Segment. She has featured as a guest on Channels Television, Television Continental, Galaxy Television and several other media houses in Nigeria, where she regularly educates the public on eye care and eye health and writes a weekly column titled “Eye Care with Dr. Priscilia Imade” for the Frontier Online Newspaper.
As a public health consultant in health education and promotion, Dr. Imade’s desire and passion for keeping the populace informed about eye health to prevent visual impairments or complete blindness motivated her to reach out to the public and occupational institutions on eye health enlightenment campaigns. Her regular seminars on “Children Vision Care,” “School Vision Screening Programme,” “Driving and Eye Care,” and “Eye Care for the Elderly,” organized for students, workers, motorists, and elders, have made her very popular in her community.
As the Chief Executive Officer and Consultant Optometrist at Modern Eye Clinic and chairperson of Modern Eye Care Foundation, Lagos State, Nigeria, she has used both platforms to promote her vision in preventive and curative eye care by offering beneficial vision care services to the public. She has used both platforms to train several students, externs, interns, and young optometrists.
Her zeal for writing and research propelled her into authoring, co-authoring, and publishing. She is a peer reviewer with The Public Library of Science. An insatiable quest for learning and re-learning, as well as mentoring optometrists, led to her training in the Family of Optometric Mentors, an affiliate and educational arm of the Nigerian Optometric Association.
Dr. Imade is currently a certified FOM platinum mentor. She is a seasoned optometrist who has practiced optometry for over two decades (twenty-five years) She has trained and mentored hundreds of optometrists.
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