Biography
Kristine Dalton is an Associate Professor at the School of Optometry & Vision Science, an optometrist, and a leader in the field of sports vision and concussion rehabilitation. After establishing and directing the Vision & Motor Performance Lab in 2013, Kristine went onto found the Sports Vision Clinic at the University of Waterloo in 2014. Under her leadership, the Sports Vision Clinic expanded its services to include the Brain Injury Clinic in 2019. In her clinical work, Kristine provides performance vision enhancement and vision rehabilitation services for athletes and individuals with traumatic brain injury (concussion).
Kristine has published over 20 papers and 80 conference presentations and supervised over 40 undergraduate and graduate students. Kristine’s research interests include sports performance, traumatic brain injury rehabilitation in able-bodied and Para sport, and Paralympic classification for athletes with vision impairment. Her work is helping to develop one of the first sport-specific classification systems for Para athletes with vision impairment as well as national and international guidelines on concussion management for Para athletes and in optometric clinical practice.
Kristine is a member of the Concussion in Para Sport group, a Fellow of the American Academic of Optometry, a Fellow of the British Contact Lens Association, and a recipient of the Excellence in Science Teaching Award (2018) from the University of Waterloo.
Research Interests
- Sports related concussion and vision rehabilitation
- Paralympic classification for athletes with vision impairment
- Understanding how vision is involved in sports performance
- Development of a novel test of vision function to assess vision for sports performance
- Clinical aspects of optometric practices including vision training to enhance athletic performance and vision rehabilitation
- Vision Rehabilitation
- Neuroscience
- Vision Services
- Technology and Optics
- Optical Devices
Education
- OD (Waterloo), MSc (Waterloo), PhD (Aston University), MCOptom, FAAO, FBCLA