Selina Powell

Assistant editor

Selina Powell is assistant editor for Optometry Today, where she focuses on covering the latest innovations and research in eye health. She also profiles what optometrists get up to outside of the consulting room through her regular Secret life of the optometrist feature.

Selina worked as a journalist for weekly and daily newspapers in New Zealand before moving to the UK in 2016.

More articles by Selina Powell

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  Seema Verma

  05 Oct 2017 by Selina Powell

  Optegra Eye Health Care’s new chief medical officer on being a pioneer in her field

  Hospital optometrists Cataracts NHS
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  An eye on freckles

  14 Aug 2017 by Selina Powell

  New research suggests that dark spots on the iris are caused by sun exposure

  Sight impairment Health Cataracts AMD
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  UK surgeon finds 27 missing contact lenses in woman’s eye

  14 Jul 2017 by Selina Powell

  A “blueish mass” in a cataract surgery patient is the largest number of mislaid contact lenses the surgical team has seen

  Cataracts Sight impairment
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  Gaps in cataract treatment

  06 Mar 2017 by Selina Powell

  Illiterate, rural women in Nigeria and Pakistan have poorer cataract outcomes than any other social group, new research reveals

  Cataracts Blind Sight impairment
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  Treating cataracts without surgery

  13 Feb 2017 by Selina Powell

  Progress in polymer science holds promise for cataract and presbyopia patients

  Cataracts Sight impairment Presbyopia
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  Poorer post-op outcomes

  24 Jan 2017 by Selina Powell

  Cataract patients with uveitis have fuzzier vision following surgery than those without the inflammatory eye disease, new research has revealed

  Cataracts Treatment Sight impairment
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  Call for feedback

  24 Jan 2017 by Selina Powell

  The RNIB is calling for cataract, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration patients to have their say in a review of treatment guidelines

  AMD Cataracts Glaucoma
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  Sight loss and Ebola

  20 Jan 2017 by Selina Powell

  Study reveals one in five Ebola survivors developed uveitis while one in ten were legally blind

  Blind Sight impairment Cataracts