Ammann Thomas

I got into optometry more by chance in 1975. Something to do with people, brains and hands was my vision. Since obtaining my federal diploma in 1983, my enjoyment of the profession has grown steadily. In addition to optics, contact lens fitting also requires anatomical, physiological and pathological knowledge, excellent spatial awareness, psychology, chemical knowledge, empathy and much more.

In the 1980s and 90s, I gave many lectures at specialist congresses in Germany and abroad, gave workshops and worked in the contact lens care industry. As a lecturer, I taught at the former Higher Technical College for Ophthalmic Optics and Optometry as well as at the Mechanical-Technical Department of the Gewerbeschule Zürich. For more than twenty years, I have been an expert in contactology. At the same time, I built up my own business.

From 2001 to 2003, I completed a Master of Science in Optometry at Salus University in Philadelphia in order to work more in research and teaching. I soon realized that I enjoyed advising people much more than initiating and supervising studies.

I have been familiar with contact lenses since 1975, so I have witnessed the surprisingly continuous development of contact lenses from the very beginning of the first oxygen-permeable lenses and know the advantages and disadvantages of the individual models.

I have been self-employed at Hohlstrasse 25 in Zurich since 1988.