Jessica Carr

BSc, MSc, OC(C), COMT, Assistant Professor

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Email: JessicaCarr@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 470-8789
Mailing Address: 
IWK Health Centre
5850 University Avenue, 6th Floor
P.O.Box 9700, Halifax, NS
B3K 6R8
 

Clinical Appointments

  • Orthoptist/Ophthalmic Medical Technologist, IWK Health Centre, Halifax NS

Education

  • BSc in Life Sciences with Biomedical Discovery in Neuroscience, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, 2016
  • Certified Ophthalmic Medical Technologist, JCAHPO, 2018
  • MSc in Clinical Vision Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, 2020

Current Teaching

Research Interests & Activities

  • Evaluation of the calcium dynamics of reginal ganglion cells in rd1 mice (a mouse-model of retinitis pigmentosa)
  • Masked examiner for PEDIG “A Randomized Clinical Trial of Over minus Spectacle Therapy in Intermittent Exotropia” (IXT5), and “A Randomized Trial to Evaluate Sequential vs Simultaneous Spectacles plus Patching” (ATS22)