Contact details
Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences
School of Public Health Biomedical Sciences (MMUST)
P.O. Box 190-50100
Kakamega, KENYA
Office no.
Kakamega-Webuye Road
Email: ?@mmust.ac.ke
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5978-6815
ResearcherID:
After more than 16 years at the Low Vision Clinic, Ophthalmology Department in Jönköping, Sweden he in 2004 he received a PhD in optometric rehabilitation at Lund University. The year after he became a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, FAAO. From 2006 to 2013 he was employed as Associate Professor at the Department of optometry on Linnaeus University, Sweden. Then he worked as senior product advisor at Multilens AB, Sweden until March 2021. From 2014 to 2024 he had a position as Professor II at University of Southeast Norway, USN. At present he is still an adjunct professor to USN as lecturer in low vision and specialty contact lenses. From September 2025 he holds a position as adjunct Professor/researcher at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kakamega, Kenya
Some of his key published works include:
- Objectively Determined Refraction Improves Peripheral Vision. Lewis P, Baskaran K, Rosén R, Lundström L, Unsbo P, Gustafsson J. Optom Vis Sci. 2014 Jun 12. DOI: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/OPX.0000000000000301
- Benefit of adaptive optics aberration correction at preferred retinal locus. Baskaran K, Rosén R, Lewis P, Unsbo P, Gustafsson J.
Optom Vis Sci. 2012 Sep;89(9):1417-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/opx.0b013e318264f2a7 - Standardized assessment of reading performance: the New International Reading Speed Texts IReST. Trauzettel-Klosinski S, Dietz K; IReST Study Group. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.11-8284
