Vision Research Seminar

Mary Lou Jackson, MD, FRCSC
SPEAKER
Clinical Professor
Department
​​​​​​of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Title: What is Vision Rehabilitation?  A brief look at the AAO Vision Rehabilitation Preferred Practice Pattern and the WHO World Report on Vision

Dr. Mary Lou Jackson is an ophthalmologist in the UBC/VGH Department of Ophthalmology who provides Vision Rehabilitation consultations. She has previously worked in multidisciplinary Vision Rehabilitation clinics in Boston at the Massachusetts Eye And Ear Infirmary and the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria BC.  She is a past chair of the American Academy of Ophthalmology Vision Rehabilitation Committee. 

Mahyar Etminan, PharmD, MSc (Epidemiology)
SPEAKER
Associate Professor
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Department of Medicine (Neurology)
Title: Ocular Adverse Events with Chemotherapy and Endocrine Therapy in Women with Breast Cancer

Dr. Mahyar Etminan is an epidemiologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Medicine at the University of British Columbia. His area of research is focused in ocular epidemiology and drug safety using large population-based databases. In recent years, he has also taken a keen interest in the science of causation.

Dr. Etminan has published close to 200 publications some of which have appeared in journals such as JAMA, JAMA Ophthalmology, BMJ, Lancet Public Health and International Journal of Epidemiology.  

Results from his studies have also been used by the FDA, Health Canada and the European Medicines Agency in issuing worldwide safety alerts.