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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  “What would the ninja do?”

  OT  talks with entrepreneur and judo fighter, Daniel Powell, about his appearance on Ninja Warrior
  

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 08 Aug 2018
  • by Selina Powell

  Practitioner stories Blind Feature
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  Bright future

  OT  talks with five optometrists under 30 to find out their hopes and predictions for the future of optometry
  

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 27 Jul 2018
  • by Selina Powell

  Practitioner stories OCT Extended services Independent Hospital optometrists Myopia Feature
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  “If optometry is healthy, we are healthy”

  CooperVision president Daniel McBride reflects on how optometrists can thrive in business today
  

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 24 Jul 2018
  • by Selina Powell, Laurence Derbyshire

  Clinical and regulatory Business Feature
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  In the saddle

  OT  talks with optometrist, Lyn Price, about the exhilaration and exhaustion of horse driving trials

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 23 Jul 2018
  • by Selina Powell

  Practitioner stories Independent Feature
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  Living with dry eye

  Mary Pearson, tells OT  that just keeping her eyes open was a trial when her dry eye was at its worst
  

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 04 Jul 2018
  • by Selina Powell

  Practitioner stories Sight impairment Blind Feature
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  Need for speed

  When he is not examining eyes, Spalding-based optometrist, Andy Molsom, can be found testing the limits of his Caterham racing car

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 25 Jun 2018
  • by Selina Powell

  Practitioner stories Independent Practice owners Feature
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  To the letter

  From blood drops to a device that makes patients shed tears, OT  chronicles the latest innovations and research in dry eye disease

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 23 Jun 2018
  • by Selina Powell

  Research Dry eye Treatment Universities Cataracts Health Feature
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  Learning from the Canadian model of optometry

  Former UK optometrists, Dr Euan McGinty and Dr John Wilson, share their experience of practising in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia
  

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 05 Jun 2018
  • by Selina Powell

  Practitioner stories Practice management Business Independent Government Feature
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  “My work is much more recognisable as a style as I have lost my vision”

  Sculptor, Victoria Claire (pictured), talks with OT  about living with retinitis pigmentosa and her new exhibition in a pitch-black room
  

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 03 Jun 2018
  • by Selina Powell

  Practitioner stories Sight impairment Blind Feature
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  Convincing the commissioners

  If optometry is the brand, then the Local Optical Committee Support Unit is the product development team, Richard Whittington tells OT 

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 29 May 2018
  • by Selina Powell

  Optical organisations Government NHS Primary care Glaucoma Sight impairment Feature