Contacts

Lab:

Vision and Motor Performance Lab

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Neuroscience/Neurophysiology
• Eye movements and active vision
• Binocular vision
• Spatial vision
• Visual-motor integration
• Visual guided actions
• Biomechanics and movement in response to visual information

Applied Studies

• Vision enhancement and rehabilitation
• Augmented and virtual reality
• Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)
• Subjective clinical vision test development (e.g. pediatric vision, at-home test, dynamic acuity tests)
• Low vision

Societal Impact

• Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)
• Equitable access to care (e.g. government policy, public health systems)

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Vision rehabilitation
• Genetics
• Aging
• Plasticity

Applied Studies

• Low vision
• Vision enhancement and rehabilitation
• Subjective clinical vision test development (e.g. pediatric vision, at-home test, dynamic acuity tests)
• Knowledge translation, data science
• Augmented and virtual reality

Societal Impact

• Education / knowledge mobilization (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)
• Tele-optometry / imaging / AI

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments:

School of Pharmacy

WEI VSC Pillars

Fundamental Sciences

• Neuroscience/Neurophysiology
• Aging

Applied Studies

• Low vision
• Vision enhancement and rehabilitation
• Human clinical trials, e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction
• Augmented and virtual reality

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
• Tele-optometry / imaging / AI

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)
   

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)

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments

Faculty of Health

WEI VSC Pillars

Applied Studies

• Low vision
• Vision enhancement and rehabilitation
• Artificial intelligence for disease detection
• Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)
• Objective clinical vision test development (e.g. VEP, ERG, MRI)
• Knowledge translation, data science
• AI for clinical workflow, operations, patient engagement

Societal Impact

• Education / knowledge mobilization (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)
• Tele-optometry / imaging / AI