2019 Alumni of Honour Award recipients
Dr. Kathy Dumbleton is an associate clinical professor at the School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley and an independent clinical research scientist and consultant. She completed her optometry training at the University of Wales in Cardiff and at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London in 1985, and subsequently completed her MSc in physiological optics (1988) and PhD in vision science (2013) at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She is a fellow and diplomate of the Cornea, Contact Lens and Refractive Technologies (CCLRT) section of the American Academy of Optometry and a Fellow of the British Contact Lens Association. Read full bio
Dr. Margaret Hansen-des Groseilliers and Dr. Roland des Groseilliers are icons in Canadian optometry. Between them, they have served in almost every leadership position within the profession.
Margaret and Roland were classmates and graduated from the College of Optometry of Ontario in 1965. They went on to practice from 1967 to 2011 at the Ottawa Optometric Clinic.
They have each served as past presidents of the Ottawa Society of Optometrists, of which Roland is a founding member. Both are past presidents of the Canadian Association of Optometrists (CAO), and Margaret served as the first woman in the role. Both have also held leadership roles within Canadian Optometric Education Trust Fund (COETF). Roland is a past president of the Ontario Association of Optometrists (OAO) and the World Council of Optometry. Read full bio
Young Alumni of Honour
Dr. Joshua Smith completed his Doctor of Optometry degree at the University of Waterloo in 2013 after completing a Master’s degree at the University of Calgary in 2008 and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from Mount Allison University in 2005.
He has been in private practice in eastern Ontario since 2013, primarily in the rural township of Alexandria. He has a special interest in visual neurorehabilitation, particularly in cases of stroke. He is a staff consultant at the Glengarry Memorial Hospital in Alexandria, working with the hospital’s stroke rehabilitation unit. Read full bio