Faculty research interests

Research interests 

• Clinical aspects of optometric practice, particularly those related to athletic performance and traumatic brain injury, including refractive error correction, binocular vision, vision therapy, performance-enhancement vision training, and multidisciplinary management of patient care. 

• Understanding the role of functional aspects of vision performance in relation to sports performance, traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, and Paralympic classification for athletes with vision impairment.

Research interests 

• Public health: Access to care and health-care system efficiency 

• Telehealth: Remote delivery of health care locally and globally 

• Health informatics: Use of AI and machine learning to optimize the diagnosis and management of ocular disease 

• Ocular disease and ophthalmic imaging 

• Interprofessional education and collaboration

Research interests 

• The development of non-invasive psychophysical and objective techniques to improve the clinical monitoring of retinal and systemic disease and the evaluation of new techniques in a clinical setting 

• The relationship between early visual function loss and morphological retinal disturbance 

• Diabetic retinopathy, macular edema, age-related macular degeneration, primary open-angle glaucoma 

• Neurodegenerative disease and the eye; Alzheimer’s disease/mild cognitive impairment, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cerebrovascular disease, fronto-temporal degeneration, Parkinson’s disease. 

• Clinical psychophysics: automated perimetry, colour vision, short-wavelength pathway sensitivity, frequency-of-seeing, signal detection theory, cognitive function 

• Ocular imaging techniques: scanning laser, tomography, laser Doppler, retinal oximetry, retinal oxygen delivery, angiography, spectral domain optical coherence tomography, retinal morphology, retinal sub-layer segmentation 

• Ocular/retinal hemodynamics: blood flow, vascular reactivity, ocular perfusion pressure, blood gas perturbation, autoregulation

​​​Research interests 

• Adaptive optics 

• Mechanisms of light-induced retinal damage 

• Non-invasive fluorescence imaging techniques to study retinal function in healthy and diseased eyes

Research interests 

• Retinal imaging, psychophysical assessment of visual function 

• Statistical methods for clinical interpretation of psychophysical data, visual fields, continuing optometric education

Research interests 

• Myopia control 

• Pediatric vision 

• Eye care in Indigenous communities 

• Health-care education and communication 

Research interests 

• Contact lens material development and testing 

• Dry eye 

• Impact of material composition on tear film deposition 

• Impact of care systems on ocular comfort and in vivo wettability 

• Myopia control 

• Ocular drug delivery 

• Ocular response to daily and extended wear of contact lenses 

• Role of the tear film in contact lens wear 

• Clinical trial design 

• Contact lens performance 

• Ocular biomaterials 

• Proteins at interfaces 

• Optical Devices 

• Biomaterials, Polymers and Bioplastics 

• Bionanotechnology and Biosensors 

• Nanomaterials 

• Smart and Functional Materials 

• Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery

Research interests 

• Effects of atypical visual experience on the developing brain 

• Ocular motor dysfunction in amblyopia and strabismus 

• Functional consequences of common pediatric eye conditions (amblyopia, strabismus, anisometropia, cataract) on reading and motor skills

Research interests 

• Low vision and vision rehabilitation 

• Low vision rehabilitation in private practice and primary care 

• Pediatric low vision 

• Increasing accessibility to low vision care 

• Ocular disease

Research interests 

• Empowered and independent aging  

• Access to low vision rehabilitation   

• Visual fitness for driving  

• Post-stroke evaluation and rehabilitation  

• Medication management with visual impairment 

Research interests 

• Classical optics – aberration theory, optical systems, optical fibres, ophthalmic and visual optics, etc. 

• Image processing  algorithms 

• AI/deep learning/machine learning for ophthalmic disease diagnosis 

• Visual perception – psychophysics, models 

• Quantum information and computing 

• Mathematical methods in optical science and engineering 

• History of Optics 

• Science policy 

Research interests 

• Clinical utility of imaging instruments in posterior segment disease 

• Autofluorescence imaging 

• Interprofessional patient management 

• Ocular inflammation 

• Ocular surface disease 

• Glaucoma 

• Ocular manifestations of systemic disease 

• Ocular disease 

• Interprofessional care

Research interests 

• Anterior ocular surface including contact lens wear, tear film physiology, ocular surface temperature, corneal epithelium and corneal sensation 

• Instrumentation; development of new clinical and research instruments including evaporimeter, corneal aesthesiometer, ocular surface thermography

​​​​​Research interests 

• Human clinical testing related to the diagnosis and treatment of dry eye disease and meibomian gland dysfunction 

• Cellular physiology and their response to stress and damage 

• Discovery of drugs and biologics for modulating inflammation

Research interests 

• Ocular surface disease 

• Glaucoma 

• Pharmaceutical therapies for ocular disease 

• Retinal disease 

Research interests 

• Colour vision 

• Spatial vision 

• Vision in eye disease 

• Eye movements and eye tracking 

• Adaptive optics 

• Ocular aberrations and wavefront sensing 

• Accommodation 

• Retinal imaging 

• Scanning light ophthalmoscopy 

• Optical coherence tomography 

• Optoretinography

Research interests 

• Human visual cortex development and plasticity 

• Amblyopia 

• Binocular vision 

• Functional MRI 

• Non-invasive brain stimulation 

• Ocular imaging and visual rehabilitation 

Research interests 

• Telehealth 

• Vision Rehabilitation