International recognition for vision-related inventions
Device for early diagnosis of macular degeneration and navigation software for people with low vision win medals at invention exhibition in Switzerland.
Device for early diagnosis of macular degeneration and navigation software for people with low vision win medals at invention exhibition in Switzerland.
Dr. Stephen Tait is retiring both from his 40-year part-time role as a clinical supervisor at the School of Optometry & Vision Science and from his private practice.
Patented bandage contact lens material could release drugs as needed to help eye abrasions heal faster.
New School of Optometry & Vision Science research centre poised to make advancements in understanding diseases and conditions of the eye and beyond.
Dr. Krista Kelly is working to better understand how amblyopia, or ‘lazy eye’, affects children’s everyday lives, with the goal of developing better treatments.
The Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR), a Hong Kong-based collaboration between the University of Waterloo and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, recently won gold medals for both the inventions it entered in the Asia Exhibition of Innovations and Inventions Hong Kong.
Waterloo Eye Institute Low Vision Clinic helps Syrian refugee get special glasses that will allow him to drive.
Stories of just some of the approximately 200 refugee patients a year Dr. Lisa Woo remembers seeing at the Health Sciences Optometry Clinic (HSOC) in downtown Kitchener, run by the University of Waterloo School of Optometry and Vision Science.
It’s cold outside but the view of Hudson’s Bay is beautiful from the Churchill Health Centre (CHC), where dozens of patients got their eyes examined this week, some for the first time in years, thanks to state-of-the art equipment donated through the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science.
The eye clinic, which took place from October 23 to 25 in the northern Manitoba town of about 900 people, was the first to pilot an initiative co-led by the School, the Manitoba Association of Optometrists (MAO) and the CHC.
New research from the University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry and Vision Science found a difference between how females and males with high autistic traitprocess visual information. This provides researchers with a possible correlation to explain why some females are underdiagnosed and to help medical teams understand how a person’s neurodivergent presentation is tied to how they process sensory information.