Canada

Patrick Quaid

Optometrist and founder of VUE Cubed Vision Therapy Clinics

Canada

Biography

Dr Patrick Quaid founded VUE Cubed Vision Therapy Clinics in 2014 out of his passion for visual rehabilitation. As he suffered the consequences of a severe traumatic brain injury when he was eight years old, he knows first-hand what concussion can do to a child’s academic potential. His two clinics in and around Toronto, Canada, welcome children who might see clearly yet experience vision-related problems. Examples of these problems are vergence and accommodative issues, tracking/saccadic issues, and visual-perceptual problems, which may occur in vision-related learning difficulty cases and in cases of post-concussion syndrome.

Patrick kicked off his career by obtaining his professional qualification for optometrists from the University of Bradford in the UK, followed by a PhD in Vision Science in 2006 at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) and a post-doctoral year in 2007 between the University of Waterloo and York University in Canada. Subsequently, he received his USA Neuro-Visual Rehabilitation Board Certification (FCOVD) Fellowship designation in 2011. Patrick also served as the first internationally trained President of the largest regulatory arm of Optometry in Canada (Ontario College of Optometrists) which regulates 2,500 optometrists in Ontario.

Next to his work, Patrick finds it important to publish data from his clinics to show clinical translation and receives ongoing funding from the Canadian government for doing so. In 2020, he wrote a book directed at educating parents and teachers of children with learning difficulties specifically on the importance of visual skills “beyond 20/20” – titled Learning to See is Seeing to Learn (available on Kindle, Amazon and Audible).

Patrick has published more than 35 scientific publications in optometric and medical journals and has also co-authored a landmark chapter medical textbook (with Dr. Eric Singman MD PhD, Head of Neuro-Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins), specifically on the topic of traumatic brain injury affects dynamic visual skills. Examples of his paper publication topics are the effects of oculomotor dysfunction on reading efficiency in children, and the effects of concussion on dynamic visual skills. He has also published on glaucoma and its relationship to perfusion pressure and scanning laser topography imaging methods.

Patrick has delivered in total to date over 900 lectures worldwide to optometrists, physicians, educators, and allied healthcare professionals on topics related to visual dysfunction in concussion and paediatric learning difficulty cases. In his lectures, he often shows footage of real cases to illustrate how we can often make immediate and significant gains by realising how powerful dynamic visual skills are when functioning appropriately.

Patrick has contributed with a discussion and a masterclass on Viewpoint. The discussion and masterclass are available here on Viewpoint.

Biography

Dr Patrick Quaid founded VUE Cubed Vision Therapy Clinics in 2014 out of his passion for visual rehabilitation. As he suffered the consequences of a severe traumatic brain injury when he was eight years old, he knows first-hand what concussion can do to a child’s academic potential. His two clinics in and around Toronto, Canada, welcome children who might see clearly yet experience vision-related problems. Examples of these problems are vergence and accommodative issues, tracking/saccadic issues, and visual-perceptual problems, which may occur in vision-related learning difficulty cases and in cases of post-concussion syndrome.

Patrick kicked off his career by obtaining his professional qualification for optometrists from the University of Bradford in the UK, followed by a PhD in Vision Science in 2006 at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) and a post-doctoral year in 2007 between the University of Waterloo and York University in Canada. Subsequently, he received his USA Neuro-Visual Rehabilitation Board Certification (FCOVD) Fellowship designation in 2011. Patrick also served as the first internationally trained President of the largest regulatory arm of Optometry in Canada (Ontario College of Optometrists) which regulates 2,500 optometrists in Ontario.

Next to his work, Patrick finds it important to publish data from his clinics to show clinical translation and receives ongoing funding from the Canadian government for doing so. In 2020, he wrote a book directed at educating parents and teachers of children with learning difficulties specifically on the importance of visual skills “beyond 20/20” – titled Learning to See is Seeing to Learn (available on Kindle, Amazon and Audible).

Patrick has published more than 35 scientific publications in optometric and medical journals and has also co-authored a landmark chapter medical textbook (with Dr. Eric Singman MD PhD, Head of Neuro-Ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins), specifically on the topic of traumatic brain injury affects dynamic visual skills. Examples of his paper publication topics are the effects of oculomotor dysfunction on reading efficiency in children, and the effects of concussion on dynamic visual skills. He has also published on glaucoma and its relationship to perfusion pressure and scanning laser topography imaging methods.

Patrick has delivered in total to date over 900 lectures worldwide to optometrists, physicians, educators, and allied healthcare professionals on topics related to visual dysfunction in concussion and paediatric learning difficulty cases. In his lectures, he often shows footage of real cases to illustrate how we can often make immediate and significant gains by realising how powerful dynamic visual skills are when functioning appropriately.

Patrick has contributed with a discussion and a masterclass on Viewpoint. The discussion and masterclass are available here on Viewpoint.

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