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

Looking beyond the numbers

Sightsavers’ Imran Khan talks with OT about empowering individuals and communities through cataract surgery
- OT news and features
- Pulished 20 Nov 2017
- by Selina Powell
Cataracts Low vision Campaign Charity
Cataract guidelines released

The NHS has been discouraged from restricting access to cataract surgery on the basis of visual acuity in new national guidelines
- OT news and features
- Pulished 31 Oct 2017
- by Selina Powell
Research Cataracts NHS NICE
Lower risk of death following cataract surgery

A new study finds a 60% lower mortality rate among older women who have cataracts removed
- OT news and features
- Pulished 27 Oct 2017
- by Selina Powell
Research Cataracts Health Treatment
Seema Verma

Optegra Eye Health Care’s new chief medical officer on being a pioneer in her field
- OT news and features
- Pulished 05 Oct 2017
- by Selina Powell
Health services Hospital optometrists Cataracts NHS
An eye on freckles

New research suggests that dark spots on the iris are caused by sun exposure
- OT news and features
- Pulished 14 Aug 2017
- by Selina Powell
Research Sight impairment Health Cataracts AMD
UK surgeon finds 27 missing contact lenses in woman’s eye

A “blueish mass” in a cataract surgery patient is the largest number of mislaid contact lenses the surgical team has seen
- OT news and features
- Pulished 14 Jul 2017
- by Selina Powell
Research Cataracts Sight impairment
Gaps in cataract treatment

Illiterate, rural women in Nigeria and Pakistan have poorer cataract outcomes than any other social group, new research reveals
- OT news and features
- Pulished 06 Mar 2017
- by Selina Powell
Cataracts Blind Sight impairment Research
Treating cataracts without surgery

Progress in polymer science holds promise for cataract and presbyopia patients
- OT news and features
- Pulished 13 Feb 2017
- by Selina Powell
Technology Cataracts Sight impairment Presbyopia
Poorer post-op outcomes

Cataract patients with uveitis have fuzzier vision following surgery than those without the inflammatory eye disease, new research has revealed
- OT news and features
- Pulished 24 Jan 2017
- by Selina Powell
Research Cataracts Treatment Sight impairment
Call for feedback

The RNIB is calling for cataract, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration patients to have their say in a review of treatment guidelines
- OT news and features
- Pulished 24 Jan 2017
- by Selina Powell
AMD Cataracts Glaucoma Health services