Gordon Dutton is a Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist working at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow, Scotland. He is one of three Ophthalmologists providing a service to a population of 2 million people. By far, the commonest type of visual impairment in children which he sees is that due to damage to the brain ranging from cerebral blindness to children with 20/20 vision but significant perceptual and cognitive visual dysfunction. For this reason, it has become a special interest and the Vision Assessment Team has described a wide range of visual disorders and strategies to help the children.

*This lecture will take place at 5 p.m. in The Gamble Reading Room. From the Main Lobby go up the main set up stairs on your left; At the top of the stairs go through the doors and follow the hallway around to the right You'll come to 3 large elevators where you'll turn left; Follow hallway to end; you'll go through 2 sets of doors and end up at the library; Gamble Reading Room is the only conference room in the library.For directions to the main hospital, click here. For questions, call (617) 355-6766 or email gretchen.nuzzo@childrens.harvard.edu.