Trefford Simpson

Professor
Dip Optom (Wits Technikon), MSc (Houston), PhD (Houston)

Email: tsimpson@uwaterloo.ca
Telephone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 35015
Fax: (519) 725-0784
Office: OPT 371
Lab: OPT 232
Website: quark.uwaterloo.ca/~tsimpson

Biography

Trefford did his optometric training in Johannesburg, South Africa, graduate training at the University of Houston and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. He has been at the University of Waterloo since 1994 and is currently a Professor at the School of Optometry.

Research

• areas of interest: Soft Metrology, psychophysical measurement of ocular surface pain and thermal sensing, scaling symptoms and visual function, ocular surface imaging (particularly OCT), ocular surface structure and function, binocular vision
• approved Ph.D. supervisor
• Graduate Officer (July 2009 - )

Clinic duties

• registered optometrist (Ontario)
• supervising clinician
• clinical interests: Binocular Vision, Electro-diagnostic Service

Teaching interests

Undergraduate Courses

• OPTOM 152 - Clinical Techniques 1
• OPTOM 252 - Clinical Techniques 2

Graduate Courses

• OPTOM 615 - Visual Psychophysics
• OPTOM 616 - Research Methodology for Vision Science
• OPTOM 620 - Data Analysis in Vision Science

Additional information

• A list of publications and research activities is available at Dr. Simpson's Soft Metrology Lab web site: quark.uwaterloo.ca/~tsimpson

Links of interest

• Webvision Home Page
• eBMJ -- Statistics at Square One
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
• Medical Imaging Perception Society