Contacts

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Tear film and ocular surface
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)

Applied Studies

• Contact lens
• Dry eye
• 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)
• Ophthalmic optics (e.g. contact lens, intraocular lens, spectacles, ocular aberration correction)

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:

Games Institute

Extended Reality Community of Practice

Engineering Capstone Project Advisor

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences:

• Neuroscience/Neurophysiology
• Eye movements and active vision
• Plasticity

Applied Studies:

• Knowledge translation, data science
• Vision enhancement and rehabilitation

Societal Impact:

• Education / knowledge mobilisation (e.g. public, optometric, interprofessional)
• Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Eye movements and active vision
• Binocular vision
• Visual development

Applied Studies

• Pediatric vision
• Amblyopia
• 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)

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)

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

• Posterior segment (e.g. retina, vasculature, choroid etc.)
• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)

Applied Studies

• Artificial intelligence for disease detection
• Myopia

Societal Impact

• Education / knowledge mobilization (e.g. public, optometric, interprofessional)
• Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)
• Tele-optometry / imaging / AI

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments:

School of Optometry and Vision Science

Biology

Biomedical Engineering Graduate program faculty

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Tear film and ocular surface
• Drug delivery
• Biomaterials research
• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)

Applied Studies

• Contact lens
• Dry eye

Societal Impact

• Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)

Lab:

PhotoMedicine Labs

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Posterior segment (e.g. retina, vasculature, choroid etc)
• Stem cells
• Drug delivery
• Optical system development (e.g. imaging, displays, diagnostics)
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)
• Neuroscience/Neurophysiology

Societal Impact

• Education / knowledge mobilisation (e.g. public, optometric, interprofessional)
• Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)
• Tele-optometry / imaging / AI
• Equitable access to care (e.g. government policy, public health systems)

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments:

Centre for Eye and Vision Research

Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

Biomedical Engineering

Lab:

Ho Research Group

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Posterior segment (e.g. retina, vasculature, choroid etc)
• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Drug delivery
• Biomaterials research
• Optical system development (e.g. imaging, displays, diagnostics)
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)

Applied Studies

• Dry eye
• Myopia
• Artificial intelligence for disease detection

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

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Tear film and ocular surface
• Disease detection, e.g. new devices, diagnostics

Applied Studies

• Contact lens
• Dry eye
• Artificial intelligence for disease detection

Societal Impact

• Quality of life, e.g. clinical care, service provision
   

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Visual development
• Plasticity

Applied Studies

• Myopia
• Pediatric vision
• Amblyopia
• 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)

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

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

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Posterior segment (e.g. retina, vasculature, choroid etc)
• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Tear film and ocular surface
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)
• Aging

Applied Studies

• Dry eye
• Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)

Societal Impact

• Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)
• Education / knowledge mobilisation (e.g. public, optometric, interprofessional)
• Equitable access to care (e.g. government policy, public health systems)
• Tele-optometry / imaging / AI

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments:

Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE)

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences:

• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Optical system development (e.g. imaging, displays, diagnostics)
• Posterior segment (e.g. retina, vasculature, choroid etc)
• Tear film and ocular surface
• Stem cells
• Spatial vision
• Computational Vision/Neuroscience
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)

Applied Studies:

• Dry eye
• Contact lens
• Myopia
• Presbyopia
• Subjective clinical vision test development (e.g. pediatric vision, at-home test, dynamic acuity tests)
• Ophthalmic optics (e.g. contact lens, intraocular lens, spectacles, ocular aberration correction)
• Amblyopia
• Artificial intelligence for disease detection
• Objective clinical vision test development (e.g. VEP, ERG, MRI)

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:

Systems Design Engineering

Lab:

Ubiquitous Health Technology Lab (UbiLab)

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Aging
• Computational Vision/Neuroscience
• AI applications in health

Applied Studies

• Artificial intelligence for disease detection
• Machine vision
• Augmented and virtual reality
• Knowledge translation, data science

Societal Impact

• 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:

Biology

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Genetics
• Tear film and ocular surface
• Drug development
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)
• Aging

Applied Studies

• Dry eye
• Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)

Societal Impact

• Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)

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)

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

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

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

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences:

• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Tear film and ocular surface

Applied Studies:

• Contact lens
• Dry eye
• Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)

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