Meet the speaker: Dr Antonia Chitty

The SILMO Academy by IOA will be taking place 12 April - 14 April in Singapore. Dr Antonia Chitty will be talking about creating a sustainable optometry practice.

Dr Antonia Chitty is the Director of Communications for the IOA and Head of Communications, Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO). Antonia Chitty is the lead on sustainability for the Association of British Dispensing Opticians. She has championed sustainability within ABDO and beyond. She has led ABDO’s carbon footprinting and overseen the appointment of Sustainability Champions for each department. Alongside this she developed the Sustainability Self Assessment tool and a tool to determine the emissions from staff business travel. She coordinated the cross-sector working group on the environment and ABDO’s internal working group.

Antonia says, “I’m passionate about how the small changes we make every day will make a big difference in the long term. It’s exciting to see so much progress across the whole optical community on a topic that really has brought everyone together.”

In this fast-paced session, Dr Antonia Chitty of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians will take you through why the climate crisis means there is a compelling call for every optician and optometrist to make changes in their practice, and how to do this. You will learn more about the background to the current climate issues, and how to make a plan to lower your practice carbon emissions, looking at issues including waste, procurement, travel and utilities. This talk will help you to involve all the practice staff, and be packed with useful resources to help you make a change.

Find out more about SILMO Academy my IOA here