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PhD student Sharon Qiu aims to improve scleral lenses to better treat patients with corneal irregularities. She was one of just two students from across North America who won the prestigious OD/PhD scholarship from the American Academy of Optometry (AAO) Foundation this year. The scholarship was presented at the AAO’s Academy 2023 conference in New Orleans in October.

Stories of just some of the approximately 200 refugee patients a year that 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.

An interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team with a University of Waterloo professor as a core member, has been named the winner of the prestigious Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering on November 1st. 

Dr. William Ngo’s research aims to better understand ocular surface aging and how it influences inflammation. Most researchers working on dry eye disease are investigating treatments, whether eye drops or devices. Ngo is taking a more fundamental approach – he’s working to understand cellular aging at the front of the eye.

Eye clinic at Churchill Health Centre the first to use donated optometric equipment being kept in Northern Manitoba.

The prevalence of dry eye disease (DED) has increased significantly due to prolonged screen time and Mana Monfared, a current PhD in Vision Science student, is dedicated to studying the disease and its effects on eye health.

Students learn from optometrists and ophthalmologists at the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science.

In 1974, the University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry and Vision Science launched its Low Vision Clinic, offering people with vision loss wraparound support through clinical assessments, technology and counselling. Ida Fisher was one of the clinic’s earliest clients.

Read Ida's story here,

University of Waterloo optometry student prompts changes to standardized eye exam cards

Researchers studied a cohort of 400 children aged 9 to 10 in New Zealand who exhibited a full range of possible autism traits and conducted a variety of vision and visuomotor processing tests with them.