Editing Optometry (section)

====Greece====
Hellenic Ministry of Education founded the first department of Optometry at [[Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece|Technological Educational Institute of Patras]] in 2007. After protests from the department of Optics at Technological Educational Institute of Athens (the only department of Optics in Greece, until 2006), the Government changed the names of the departments to "Optics and Optometry" and included lessons in both optics and optometry. Optometrists-Opticians have to complete a 4-year undergraduate honours degree. Then the graduates can be admitted to postgraduate courses in Optometry at universities around the world.

Since 2015, a Master of Science (MSc) course in Optometry is offered by the Technological Educational Institute of Athens.

The Institute of Vision and Optics (IVO) of the University of Crete focuses on the sciences of vision and is active in the fields of research, training, technology development and provision of medical services. [[Ioannis Pallikaris]] has received numerous awards and recognitions for the institute's contribution to [[ophthalmology]]. In 1989 he performed the first [[LASIK]] procedure on a [[human eye]].