Our Waterloo Optometry Clinic has moved to the nearby location of 419 Phillip St., Unit C, as of October 21, 2024. This location will be open until fall 2026 while the Waterloo Eye Institute is under construction. Our downtown Kitchener location (Health Sciences Optometry Clinic) remains open with no change to service.
An interdisciplinary team including Drs. Ben Thompson (PI), Lisa Christian and Marlee Spafford are using socially interactive technology to improve health outcomes in children with amblyopia.
After 20 years with the school, patient care coordinator Linda Jackson is retiring.
Myopia, more commonly known as nearsightedness, not only causes blurry vision, it puts patients at higher risk of vision loss. These days, children's myopia can be controlled using special glasses, contact lenses or eyedrops. Dr. Debbie Jones explains how.
Device for early diagnosis of macular degeneration and navigation software for people with low vision win medals at invention exhibition in Switzerland.
Dr. Stephen Tait is retiring both from his 40-year part-time role as a clinical supervisor at the School of Optometry & Vision Science and from his private practice.
Assistive technology and low vision aids can help people with low vision to maintain or increase their independence. Low vision therapist Heidi Panchaud and high technology assessor Dave Johnston explain how professional staff at the Waterloo Eye Institute help patients choose and adjust to using the aids right for them.
Patented bandage contact lens material could release drugs as needed to help eye abrasions heal faster.
New School of Optometry & Vision Science research centre poised to make advancements in understanding diseases and conditions of the eye and beyond.
Dr. Krista Kelly is working to better understand how amblyopia, or ‘lazy eye’, affects children’s everyday lives, with the goal of developing better treatments.
The Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR), a Hong Kong-based collaboration between the University of Waterloo and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, recently won gold medals for both the inventions it entered in the Asia Exhibition of Innovations and Inventions Hong Kong.