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

Ho ho…oh no!

A woman who presented with a painful swollen eye was found to have glitter from a Christmas card lodged in her cornea
- OT news and features
- Pulished 04 Jan 2018
- by Selina Powell
Hospital optometrists Sight impairment Research
Corneal tissue can be stored for 11 days

New US research analyses the length of time that donor corneas can be safely preserved before transplantation
- OT news and features
- Pulished 04 Dec 2017
- by Selina Powell
Research Cornea Hospital optometrists
“The dawn of a new science”

An emerging family of materials could be used to hunt and target tumours
- OT news and features
- Pulished 23 Nov 2017
- by Selina Powell
Health Hospital optometrists Universities Research
AMD centre opens

Boost in capacity to assess and treat patients following partnership between Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Bayer
- OT news and features
- Pulished 31 Oct 2017
- by Selina Powell
Health services AMD Hospital optometrists Sight impairment
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
At the frontline of emergency eye care

A patient suffered 360-degree corneal melt after contracting gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis
- OT news and features
- Pulished 02 Oct 2017
- by Selina Powell
Hospital optometrists Sight impairment Treatment Practitioner stories
11-year-old sustains corneal oedema from Nerf gun injury

Eye surgeons have urged caution using the toy guns after three patients attended Moorfields Eye Hospital with serious eye injuries
- OT news and features
- Pulished 22 Sep 2017
- by Selina Powell
Clinical and regulatory Health Hospital optometrists
Manchester Royal Eye Hospital delivers gene therapy for the first time

An X-linked retinitis pigmentosa patient has received treatment as part of a clinical trial
- OT news and features
- Pulished 08 Sep 2017
- by Selina Powell
Hospital optometrists Genetics Retina Research
Eye of the storm

While some venture to sun-soaked beaches for their holidays, locum optometrist Jason Searle chases hurricanes and thunder
- OT news and features
- Pulished 28 Aug 2017
- by Selina Powell
Practitioner stories Locums Hospital optometrists Feature
Nominations open for Hospital Optometrists Committee

The AOP representative group has two seats available
- OT news and features
- Pulished 21 Aug 2017
- by Selina Powell
AOP NHS Hospital optometrists