Sarah MacIver: A passion for improving patient care

Dr. Sarah MacIver is applying her expertise in ocular disease to advocate for scope modernization and continuing professional development

Dr. Sarah MacIver (OD ’10), an associate clinical professor, is an emerging leader in advocating for scope modernization and continuing professional development. Learn how her residency in New York State, where she collaborated extensively with other health-care professionals, helped her see the role optometrists could play in ocular disease care.

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Eyenova Biotech: Faster, better lab testing

Award-winning Waterloo-Hong Kong startup Eyenova Biotech aims to improve early-stage eye drug testing by creating an ‘eye on a chip’

Eyenova Biotech, an award-winning Waterloo-Hong Kong start-up, aims to improve early-stage eye drug testing by creating an ‘eye on a chip’ – a preclinical testing platform that replicates the complexity of the eye’s cellular environment and performs multiple tests at once, which saves time, costs and animal testing.

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Gerry Leinweber: A life of service – and a little hockey

Dr. Gerry Leinweber’s career has been largely focused on optometric volunteerism and helping optometrists with the business side of their jobs

Dr. Gerry Leinweber (OD '80) has started many initiatives – an international vision care charity, a Central Alberta practice with three locations, a national optometrists’ co-op and a consulting business for optometry practices. It might have been some hockey goals in his youth that helped start him down his path of leadership.

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