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Eye and vision care for everyone

Whatever your eye and vision care needs, the University of Waterloo Optometry Clinics can help. We are one of Canada’s largest, best-equipped eye care centres, and we offer a full range of services, in two convenient locations.

two student optometrists examine a patient.

As part of the School of Optometry & Vision Science, we build on our research and optometric education to bring you the highest standard of eye and vision care.

Sight is one of our most precious gifts. We look forward to helping you protect yours.

Our Services

Comprehensive eye examinations for all ages

Diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases

Specialty services such as vision rehabilitation

Eyeglasses and contact lens evaluation, fitting and dispensing

Urgent eye care

Why choose the Waterloo Optometry Clinics?

Leaders in Eye and Vision Care

Our faculty have helped to establish many of the clinical guidelines that guide the practice of optometry in Canada. And the care we provide is enhanced by award-winning vision research conducted right here at the School.

Experience that Counts

We are one of Canada’s largest, most comprehensive eye care clinics, with more than 25,000 patient visits each year. Health care providers across Ontario and beyond refer patients to us for specialized treatment and vision rehabilitation.

Highest Standard of Care

Your care is provided by highly trained optometry interns working under the supervision of licensed Doctors of Optometry. When you choose us, you not only receive the highest standard of care, you’re also helping to train the next generation of Canadian optometrists.

Recent news

News

Woman looks through a slit lamp during an eye exam

Stories of just some of the approximately 200 refugee patients a year Dr. Lisa Woo remembers seeing at the Health Sciences Optometry Clinic (HSOC) in downtown Kitchener, run by the University of Waterloo School of Optometry and Vision Science.

Painted mural of a polar bear on the wall of a Churchill health clinic

It’s cold outside but the view of Hudson’s Bay is beautiful from the Churchill Health Centre (CHC), where dozens of patients got their eyes examined this week, some for the first time in years, thanks to state-of-the art equipment donated through the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science.

The eye clinic, which took place from October 23 to 25 in the northern Manitoba town of about 900 people, was the first to pilot an initiative co-led by the School, the Manitoba Association of Optometrists (MAO) and the CHC.

Child looks through an eye testing device

New research from the University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry and Vision Science found a difference between how females and males with high autistic traitprocess visual information. This provides researchers with a possible correlation to explain why some females are underdiagnosed and to help medical teams understand how a person’s neurodivergent presentation is tied to how they process sensory information.

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