Our À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ 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 late 2026 while the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Eye Institute is under construction. Our downtown Kitchener Clinic (Health Sciences Optometry Clinic) remains open with no change to service.
An estimated 90 per cent of concussion patients experience some visual symptoms in the early days following a concussion. Some patients continue to experience symptoms for months or years following concussion.
Macular degeneration is a common eye disease that affects the retina – the light-sensitive area at the back of the eye responsible for detailed vision. Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of vision loss, affecting some 2.5 million Canadians.
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.
Glaucoma is called 'the silent thief of sight' because irreversible damage can occur before there are noticeable symptoms. It's one of the most common causes of blindness, but early detection can mean you never experience any symptoms.
The Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR), a Hong Kong-based collaboration between the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ 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.Â
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Eye Institute Low Vision Clinic helps Syrian refugee get special glasses that will allow him to drive.
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 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ School of Optometry and Vision Science.
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 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ School of Optometry & Vision Science. Â
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.
New research from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’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.
Thanks to support from the optometry profession, alumni and donors across Canada, the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ will begin construction next year on the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Eye Institute (WEI), a state-of-the-art facility supporting advances in vision research, optometric education and patient care.
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