Göran Skjöld,Msc clinical optometry, FAAO,
optometrist born in 1952, received his optometry degree in Kongsberg in Norway, where he graduated in 1976. He was granted his qualification as a contact lens optician in Sweden in 1977.

In 2007, he graduated in MSc in Clinical Optometry at SALUS/PCU in Philadelphia, USA.

In 2009, Göran became a Clinical Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (FAAO), a title currently held by 4 others in Sweden.

Göran participated with a poster entitled "The association between intraocular pressure and optic disk evaluation using the ISNT rule in 40 to 79 yrs old patients seen in optometric practice" at ARVO 2008.

Göran is the lead author in recently published articles; an opinion article in the journal for medical doctors in Sweden, entitled "Optometrists with diagnostic privileges  a resource that should be used in diabetes care" (Läkartidningen.se 2017-01-23), and in February 2018 an article entitled "Binocular measurements in a non-selected group of non-strabismic patients 8-35 years old, in Sweden in the journal Optometry and Visual Performance (Vol 6, Issue 1,2018). In 2021, Göran is co-author of an article entitled “Signs of binocular vision dysfunction in a group of patients, referred for speech-therapy evaluation”, in Optik Digital 2021-2.

Göran is the co-author of the article "Use of the ISNT rule for optic disc evaluation in 40- to 79-year-old patients seen in optometric practice" in the Scandinavian Journal of Optometry and visual science, Vol 3, No1, 2010 (http://www.sjovs.org).

Göran has participated as a guest lecturer at the optometry education at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, lectures on examination of the posterior segment of the eye, on ocular pathology and ortho-keratology, and has currently lectured in binocular vision in the Master-course in clinical optometry, at Linnéus University.

Göran has participated as an optometrist/optician representative for the Swedish Optometric Association, in a working group in Region Skåne, where accessibility in eye care has been discussed, and where the optometrists/optician's role as a primary eye care professional and as a resource in diabetes care and glaucoma care has also been discussed.

Göran has been responsible for the Swedish Optometric Association's glaucoma project in Region Skåne, in 2019, and is the author of clinical guidelines for handling of patients with increased risk of developing glaucoma, by optometrists and opticians.

Göran has been clinically active at Skjöld/Skjöld&Grönvall in Malmö with a special interest in investigating patients in the glaucoma risk group, patients with diabetes and in the examination of children with binocular vision problems. Göran is currently the distributor of HTS software in Sweden and Finland

Göran can be reached via http://www.hbsekon.se