Selina Powell

Features Editor

Selina Powell is the features editor of Optometry Today (OT), where she writes in-depth features for the print journal and is responsible for the development of supplements in collaboration with commercial partners. Selina also covers eye health research for OT, keeping practitioners up to date with the latest developments through the Science & vision section of the website and the clinical round-up in print. She talks to optometrists about their pursuits outside of the testing room for OT’s regular Secret life article, while her My vision feature showcases the experiences of people with conditions that affect their sight.

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

Vision screening in older adults does not identify risky drivers

US research has investigated the link between vision screening and motor vehicle collisions in older adults
- Research
Driving Sight test
The evolving scope of hospital optometry

OT finds out about advances in hospital optometry with principal optometrist for education and training at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, Paddy Gunn
- 7 min read
- Health services
Coronavirus Hospital optometrists Glaucoma Cataracts Extended services Feature
Exhibition explores experiences of sight loss

Do you see what I see? runs until 25 June at the Outlined Gallery in Wandsworth
- Practitioner stories
Events Blind Sight impairment
40-year reunion for University of Bradford alumni

Optometrists who graduated from the University of Bradford in the summer of 1983 are invited to attend a reunion event
- Practitioner stories
Events Universities
Study examines vision changes during menstrual cycle

Women over the age of 18 with regular periods are invited to fill in a questionnaire investigating whether vision is affected during the menstrual cycle
- Research
Universities Sight test
Q&A: Andrew Robertson

OT talks with the director of private care at Moorfields Eye Hospital
- 5 min read
- Health services
NHS Coronavirus Cataracts Treatment Hospital optometrists
Heidelberg Engineering expert shares OCT tips

Professional education director, Martin Long, focused on interpreting optical coherence tomography scans at 100% Optical
- Equipment and suppliers
100% Optical Events Imaging OCT
A way forward after COVID-19

Newmedica medical director, Nigel Kirkpatrick, discussed the recovery of ophthalmology services post-pandemic at 100% Optical
- Health services
100% Optical Events Coronavirus
$refractive surgery$
Refractive surgery: “We are trying to give patients a better quality of life”

OCL Vision director, Allon Barsam, emphasised the importance of patient selection during a presentation on refractive surgery at 100% Optical
- Health services
100% Optical Events Treatment
Understanding the ophthalmology backlog

Community Eyecare chief executive, Imran Rahman, explored the causes of lengthy hospital waiting lists during his 100% Optical presentation
- Health services
100% Optical Events Coronavirus

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