Research Labs

Faculty laboratory and Research Group pages for Vision Science and Optometry at the University of Waterloo School of Optometry:

• Dr. William Bobier's Lab 
  • Photorefractive instrumentation
  • Pre-school vision screening, ocular focus measures in pre-school children
  • Studies of refractive error, ocular focus and alignment
  • Vision and literacy studies
• Dr. Vivian Choh
  • Optics and function of crystalline lens during accommodation
  • Dynamics of cellular changes to the lens during accommodation
  • Molecular and cellular factors mediating refractive error development
  • Molecular and cellular factors mediating retinal ganglion cell death
  • Development of neuroprotective strategies following retinal ganglion cell death
• Dr. Dominic Covvey, Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research
  • Health informatics research
• Dr. John Flanagan's Lab
  • Diabetic eye disease
  • Glaucoma
• Dr. Lyndon Jones, Centre for Contact Lens Research (CCLR)
  • Contact lens and related research
• Dr. Natalie Hutching's Lab
  • Imaging
  • Online learning
  • Progressive addition lenses
• Dr. Elizabeth Irving's Lab
  • Ocular development research
  • Oculomotor research
• Dr. Trefford Simpson, Soft Metrology Lab
  • 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 (particularly inhibitory interactions)
• Dr. Jacob Sivak's Lab
  • Phylogeny and ontogeny of the eye
  • Refractive development of the eye
  • Ocular toxicology
  • Cataract
• Dr. Marlee Spafford, Interdisciplinary Health Communication Research Collective (IHCRC)
  • Healthcare professional education, communication, socialization and equity
  • Professional gatekeeping
  • Service delivery