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Tejal Patel

Clinical Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy
Tejal Patel headshot

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments:

Schlegel-UW Research Institute of Aging

Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation

Lab:

Patel Research Lab

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

  • Aging
  • Pharmacotherapy
  • Medications management
  • Colour vision

Applied Studies

  • Low vision
  • Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)
  • Medications management and technology

Societal Impact

  • Education / knowledge mobilisation (e.g. public, optometric, interprofessional) 
  • Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)
  • Equitable access to care (e.g. government policy, public health systems)
     
Link to profile: Tejal Patel

Dmitry Pushin

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Dmitry Pushin headshot

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

  • Optical system development (e.g. imaging, displays, diagnostics)
  • Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)
  • Aging
  • Colour vision
  • Spatial vision

Applied Studies

  • Myopia
  • Low vision

Societal Impact

  • Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)
Link to profile: Dmitry Pushin

Austin Roorda

Full Professor, School of Optometry and Vision Science
Austin Roorda leaning forarms on lab table facing camera

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments

Physics and Astronomy

Lab

Roorda Lab

WEI VSC Pillars

Fundamental Sciences

  • Posterior segment (e.g. retina, vasculature, choroid etc.)
  • Neuroscience/Neurophysiology
  • Optical system development (e.g. imaging, displays, diagnostics)
  • Eye movements and active vision
  • Binocular vision
  • Plasticity
  • Colour vision
  • Spatial vision

Applied Studies

  • Myopia
  • Ophthalmic optics (e.g. contact lens, intraocular lens, spectacles, ocular aberration correction)
  • Augmented and virtual reality
  • Presbyopia
  • Objective clinical vision test development (e.g. VEP, ERG, MRI)
  • Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)
Link to profile: Austin Roorda

Ben Thompson

Full Professor, School of Optometry and Vision Science
Ben Thompson, arms crossed looking at camera

Lab:

Human Visual Neuroscience Laboratory

WEI-VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

  • Neuroscience/Neurophysiology
  • Eye movements and active vision
  • Binocular vision
  • Aging
  • Visual development
  • Plasticity
  • Computational Vision/Neuroscience
  • Spatial vision
  • Colour vision

Applied Studies:

  • Presbyopia
  • Pediatric vision
  • Vision enhancement and rehabilitation
  • Amblyopia
  • Augmented and virtual reality
  • Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)
  • Objective clinical vision test development (e.g. VEP, ERG, MRI)
Link to profile: Ben Thompson

James Tung

Associate Professor, Systems Design Engineering
James Tung headshot

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments:

Network for Aging Research (NAR)

Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB)

RoboHub

BME Graduate Program

Lab:

Neural and Rehabilitation Engineering Lab

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

  • Neuroscience/Neurophysiology
  • Eye movements and active vision
  • Aging
  • Binocular vision
  • Visual development
  • Plasticity
  • Spatial vision
  • Colour vision
  • EEG

Applied Studies

  • Machine vision
  • Augmented and virtual reality
Link to profile: James Tung