Dr Nery Garcia-Porta

Dr Garcia-Porta's research expertise is in dry eye disease, as well as ocular surface response to different conditions like using glaucoma eye drops, wearing contact lenses or being exposed to environmental stress.

nery.garcia-porta@anglia.ac.uk
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Background

Nery is an optometry doctor with a Masters degree in Clinical Optometry. She also holds a PhD in Vision Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

During her PhD, Nery spent more than a year in the Clinical and Experimental Optometry Research Lab (CEORLab) at the University of Minho, Portugal, where her research was focused on contact lenses. She also spent three months at Aston University in the UK, where she carried out a research project in collaboration with the Optometry and Biomaterials groups. In addition, Dr Garcia-Porta collaborated on two privately funded clinical research projects.

In 2017, Nery joined the team at the Vision and Eye Research Institute as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie IF Fellow. She currently has more than 25 conferences contributions and more than ten articles of scientific research and outreach published.

Apart from her research background, Nery also has clinical experience acquired during the six weeks that she spent in the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago, and the nine months that she worked in Spain's Quironsalud Hospital.

Spoken Languages

• Spanish (mother tongue)
• Galician (mother tongue)
• Portuguese
• English (Cambridge First Certificate Exam)

Research interests

• Ocular surface
• Dry eye disease
• Contact lenses
• Glaucoma

Areas of research supervision

Dr Garcia-Porta has supervised two summer students to date.

Teaching

270 hours of teaching in the Faculty of Optics and Optometry at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). The subjects in which Nery was involved are:

• Contact Lenses and Clinical Optometry and Contact Lenses, academic year 2011-2012
• Contact Lenses III and Anomalies of Binocular Vision and Visual Rehabilitation, academic years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014
• Optometry IV and Clinical Optometry II, academic year 2016-2017
• distance learning course on Ophthalmological applications of Contact Lenses at the University of Valencia, Spain, 2013-2017
• distance learning course on Update on Advanced Contact Lenses and Ocular Surface at the University of Minho, Portugal, 2016
• distance learning course on Advanced Contact Lenses and Ocular Surface at the University of Minho, Portugal, 2016

Qualifications

• PhD (Cum Laude) in Vision Science with international mention by the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2015)
• Optics and Optometry upgraded degree (Grado) by European University of Madrid, Spain (2015)
• Masters degree in Clinical Optometry by European University of Madrid, Spain (2009)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Education by University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2009)
• Optics and Optometry degree (Diplomatura) by University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2008)

Memberships, editorial boards

• Member, National College of Optics and Optometrists (equivalent to the General Optical Council in Spain)
• Member, board of directors of the Galician Society of Clinical Optometry (SGOC), Spain

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Anglia Ruskin University RIDO travel grant (£1,000), Cambridge, UK (2018)
• Post-doctoral Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (European Union) to become a postdoctoral fellow at Anglia Ruskin University for two years (195.000 €), Cambridge, UK (2017)
• IACOBUS Grant from the European aggrupation for collaboration between Galicia and north of Portugal to spend two months at Clinical and Experimental Optometry Research Lab (CEORLab), University of Minho, Portugal (2015)
• Grant for internships abroad from Fundación Barrié (Spain) to spend three months at Aston University, Birmingham, UK (2013)
• Pre-doctoral grant I2C from Galician government- Xunta de Galicia (Spain), a three-year grant to do her PhD at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2011)

Selected recent publications

Otero, C., Garcia-Porta, N., Tabernero, J., Pardhan, S. Comparison of different smartphone cameras to evaluate conjunctival hyperaemia in normal subjects. Scientific reports (accepted).

García-Porta, N., Mann, A., Sáez-Martínez, V., Franklin, V., Wolffsohn, J.S., Tighe, B., 2017. The potential influence of Schirmer strip variables on dry eye disease characterisation, and on tear collection and analysis. Cont Lens Anterior Eye. 2018;41:47-53.

Garcia-Porta, N., Rico-del-Viejo, L., Martin-Gil, A., Carracedo, G., Pintor, J., González-Méijome J.M., 2016. Differences in Dry Eye Questionnaire (DEQ) symptoms in two different modalities of contact lens (CL) wear: silicone-hydrogel in daily wear basis and overnight orthokeratology. BioMed Research International. Volume 2016, Article ID 1242845, 9 pages.

García-Porta, N., Rico-del-Viejo, L., Ferreira-Neves, H., Peixoto-de-Matos, S., Queirós, A., González-Méijome, J.M., 2015. Performance of Three Multipurpose Disinfecting Solutions with a Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lens. BioMed Research International. Volume 2015, Article ID 216932, 13 pages.

Garcia-Porta, N., Fernandes, P., Queiros, A., Salgado-Borges, J., Parafita-Mato, M., González-Méijome, J.M., 2014. Corneal Biomechanical Properties in Different Ocular Conditions and New Techniques. ISRN ophthalmology. 2014:724546.

Van-der-Worp, E., Bornman, D., Lopes-Ferreira, D., Faria-Ribeiro, M., Garcia-Porta, N., González-Méijome, J.M.., 2014. Modern Scleral Contact Lenses: a Review. Contact Lens & Anterior Eye (CLAE). 2014;37:240-50.

González-Pérez, J., Villa-Collar, C., García-Porta, N., González-Méijome, J.M., Parafita, M., 2012. Long-term Changes in Corneal Structure and Tear Inflammatory Mediators after Corneal Refractive Therapy and LASIK. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS). 2012; 53:5301-1.

Recent presentations and conferences

García-Porta N, Tabernero J, Bourne R, Pardhan S, 2018. Poster: The effect of environmental stress on the ocular surface temperature in glaucoma patients. American Academy, San Antonio, USA, November 2018.

García-Porta N, Tabernero J, Pardhan S, 2018. Oral communication: Effect of environmental stress on blinking rate and tear film stability. British Congress of Optometry BCOVS18, Cambridge, UK, September, 2018.

Tabernero J, García-Porta N, Pardhan S, 2018. Oral communication: Long wave infrared thermal imaging to study the effects of changing environmental conditions on the ocular surface. Vision and Physiological Optics Conference VPO2018, Athens, Greece, August, 2018.

García-Porta N, Tabernero J, Pardhan S, 2018. Oral communication: Effect of the environmental stress on the ocular surface temperature. International Conference of Optometry and Vision science CIOCV’2018, Braga, Portugal, April 2018.

Garcia-Porta N, Tabernero J, Pardhan S., 2017. Oral communication: Ocular Surface damage in glaucoma patients. International Workshop on the Impact of Auditory and Visual Impairment AVICCS2017, Shenzhen, China, December 2017.

García-Porta N, Mann A, Franklin V, Saez V, Wolffsohn J, Tighe B, 2016. Oral communication: Influencia de la tira de Schirmer utilizada en el valor de Schirmer obtenido. International Conference of Optometry, Contact Lenses and Ophthalmic Optics OPTOM2016, Madrid, Spain, April 2016.

García-Porta N, Mann A, Franklin V, Saez V, Wolffsohn J, González-Méijome JM, Tighe B, 2015. Oral communication: Could the results obtained with the Schirmer test be affected by the strip chosen? International Conference of Optometry and Vision science CIOCV’2015, Braga, Portugal, April 2015.

García-Porta N, Rico-del-Viejo L, Faria-Ribeiro M, González-Pérez J, Queirós A, González-Méijome JM, 2014. Oral communication: Cambios en la biomecánica corneal con dos modalidades diferentes de uso de LC. VISER’14. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, November 2014.

Garcia-Porta N, Rico-del-Viejo L, González-Pérez J, Queirós A, Carracedo G, González-Méijome JM, 2013. Oral communication: Comfort and Dryness Symptoms with Silicone Hydrogel and Orthokeratology Lenses: Pilot Cross-over Study. EuroOK Meeting (BrusselsOK), Brussels, Belgium, June 2013.

García-Porta N, Rico-del-Viejo L, Lopes-Ferreira D, Neves H, González-Méijome JM, 2013. Poster: Pilot study on the Clinical Performance of Three Different Multipurpose Solutions with a Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lens. BCLA Clinical Conference & Exhibition. Manchester, UK, June 2013.

Media experience

Interviews in several Spanish local newspapers (El Progreso, Faro de Vigo and El Correo Gallego).

Two interviews in a Spanish blog, one of them about my experience as a researcher in the UK. See https://doctoradoopticayoptometria.com/nerygarciainvestigacionuk/.