Get involved with the Waterloo Eye Institute

As our population ages, more and more Canadians will experience conditions that threaten their sight. You can ensure more people maintain healthy vision by sharing your experience with our clinic and/or your own eye conditions, volunteering in vision science research or investing in programs that support eye and vision care.

Share your experience with us by completing our patient experience survey. If you are a client of the Low Vision Service, you can volunteer on the Patient Advisory Board. Please call the Low Vision Service at 519-888-4708 to learn more.

Participation in research studies can lead to new or improved treatments while benefitting participants with advanced care. To learn how you can get involved in cutting-edge research, see our current studies recruiting participants. 

Help us build the Waterloo Eye Institute 

We’re building the Waterloo Eye Institute to create 68,000 square feet of new and renovated space that will improve patient experience, modernize our facilities and create space for new vision research centres and teleoptometry. Donate now!

Optometric Charitable Care Fund 

You can help provide examinations, glasses and other necessary vision care services and products to people in our community who are unable to afford eye and vision care. Make a gift to the Optometric Charitable Care Fund. 

Interested in becoming an optometrist? See our information for future students.

Are you an internationally trained optometrist who wants to practice in Canada? See the Advanced Standing Optometry Preparatory Program.

Interested in doing vision research for a master's or PhD? See Vision Science graduate studies.