Trefford Simpson
Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor
Email: tsimpson@uwaterloo.ca
Location: OPT 371
Phone: 519-888-4567 x45015
Biography
Trefford Simpson did his optometric training in Johannesburg, South Africa, graduate training at the University of Houston and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. He has been at the University of Waterloo since 1994 and is currently a professor emeritus at the School of Optometry and Vision Science.
Research Interests
- Soft Metrology, psychophysical measurement of ocular surface pain and thermal sensing, scaling symptoms and visual function, ocular surface imaging (particularly OCT), ocular surface structure and function, binocular vision
- Clinical Imaging
- Vision Rehabilitation
- Ocular Biology
- Vision Services
Education
- Dip Optom (Wits Technikon), MSc (Houston), PhD (Houston)
Service
- Graduate Officer (July 2009 - )
- Approved Ph.D. supervisor
- Registered optometrist (Ontario)
- Supervising clinician
- Clinical interests: Binocular Vision, Electro-diagnostic Service
Selected/Recent Publications
- A list of publications and research activities is available at Dr. Simpson's Soft Metrology Lab website: https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/tsimpson/publications