New faculty: Dr. Shamrozé (Zay) Khan
The School of Optometry & Vision Science welcomes Dr. Zay Khan as our newest faculty member. She joined us this Fall as an Assistant Clinical Professor. Dr. Khan was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. She received both her Honours Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Optometry degrees from the University of Waterloo in 2007. Following this, she pursued a residency in Low Vision Rehabilitation and Ocular Disease with the Illinois College of Optometry, graduating in 2008. Upon completion, Dr. Khan then returned to Canada where she served intensively in private practice in the Niagara region for 8 years, whilst maintaining a Clinical Supervisory role at the School of Optometry & Vision Science. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. Dr. Khan enjoys full-scope optometry, and is particularly passionate about increasing access to low vision care, and integrating low vision care into every day, routine, optometric practice.
New residencies
Two new optometric residencies have been added to those offered by the School for 2016-17. The new residencies are Ocular Disease and Glaucoma, and Sports Vision and Vision Therapy, which are added to the offering of Cornea and Contact Lens, Pediatrics and Vision Therapy, and Low Vision Rehabilitation, bringing the total residencies offered to five. The inclusion of an Ocular Disease residency is an important step, due to the increased scope and responsibility of Optometry in this respect. The Sports Vision and Vision therapy is a new venture, as it takes place at an affiliated site in Calgary. Find out more...
New conference and award
The first Canadian interdisciplinary weekend vision rehabilitation conference will be held at the School of Optometry and Vision Science in March 2017. The Canadian Interdisciplinary Vision Rehabilitation Conference (CIVRC) will be of interest to all professionals who are, or would like to be, involved in low vision rehabilitation. Included is a new lecture, named for Dr George Woo. A new biennial award has also been created in association with this conference, the Canadian Low Vision Achievement Award. Find out more...
American Optometric Student Association (AOSA) Trade Show
This fall we had our largest ever student tradeshow, with almost 200 students in attendance as well as faculty and staff! The event was held on the evening of Sept 21, and was organized by the uWaterloo AOSA Executive Team (Jaclyn Chang, Vinoja Kamaleswaran, Kimberly Kishi, Jonathan Niavis, Ema Hazra), and included 21 vendors. We had a number of different activities available including ophthalmotropes, cornhole games, a photobooth, passport program, frame sale, door prizes, ice cream and catered food. I have hundreds of pictures that could be included as well because we had 3 semi-professional photographers.
