OBITUARY  – Professor Mohammed (Mo) Jalie DSc, SMSA, FBDO (Hons), Hon FCGI, Hon FCOptom, MCMI

OBITUARY 

Professor Mohammed (Mo) Jalie DSc, SMSA, FBDO (Hons), Hon FCGI, Hon FCOptom, MCMI

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Mohammed (Mo) Jalie DSc, SMSA, FBDO (Hons), Hon FCGI, Hon FCOptom, MCMI – internationally-renowned dispensing optician (DO), scholar and ophthalmic lens innovator.

Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers where he memorably sung during his initial address he was admired and loved by all he knew him.

As an ABDO member since first joining the Association in 1965, Professor Jalie’s seminal textbook, The Principles of Ophthalmic Lenses, is now in its sixth edition and remains a required text on the FBDO syllabus.

Professor Jalie dedicated more than five decades to advancing the science and practice of ophthalmic lenses and vision care worldwide – and was awarded Honorary Life Membership of ABDO in 2002.

Throughout his career, he authored or co-authored nearly 200 academic and technical papers and several major texts on ophthalmic lenses, contact lenses, dispensing techniques and optical theory.

Professor Jalie served as head of the Department of Applied Optics at City & East London College, where he taught generations of DOs and optometrists from 1964 until his retirement in 1995. And in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to optometry, education and the ophthalmic industry, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by Ulster University in 2018.