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Advancing Myopia Management Insights, Innovations, and Expert Perspectives

Global webinar series: Recording of Canadian webinar with myopia experts
22 September 2025 · 67 min watch

With this video, we share insights from the webinar "Advancing Myopia Management: Insights, Innovations, and Expert Perspectives" featuring presenters Dr. Jeff Goodhew and Prof. Padmaja Sankaridurg. Gain insights from renowned experts on myopia prevalence and management strategies in Canada, discover the latest ZEISS innovations in myopia control, and explore practical applications for eye care professionals.

  • Recording from September 22nd 2025

Short biographies of panelists

Panelist Dr Jeff Goodhew

Dr. Jeff Goodhew is a partner in private practice at Abbey Eye Care in Oakville, Ontario, CANADA. He enjoys seeing all patients in a primary eye care setting but has developed several niche offerings including myopia control, glaucoma management & dry eye therapy. Jeff is very involved in the Optometry profession having served 8 years on the board of directors of the Ontario Association of Optometrists and as president from 2014 -2016. He is also one of the founders of the Canadian Dry Eye Summit, the leading dry eye conference in Canada and of the newly launched MyRetina net.

Panelist Prof Padmaja Sankaridurg

Prior to joining ZEISS as Head, Global Myopia Management in 2023, Professor Sankaridurg was Head of the Myopia Program and Head of Intellectual Property at the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Sydney, Australia. She is a Conjoint Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She participated as an expert at the WHO-BHVI global meeting of myopia, 2015 , an advisory board member of the International Myopia Institute until 2023 and chaired task forces on white papers. She is a council member of the International Society for Contact Lens Research. Her research interests include refractive error development and progression, myopia management, strategies to control myopia, contact lenses and the economic burden of myopia.

Panelist Dr Jeff Goodhew

Dr. Jeff Goodhew is a partner in private practice at Abbey Eye Care in Oakville, Ontario, CANADA. He enjoys seeing all patients in a primary eye care setting but has developed several niche offerings including myopia control, glaucoma management & dry eye therapy. Jeff is very involved in the Optometry profession having served 8 years on the board of directors of the Ontario Association of Optometrists and as president from 2014 -2016. He is also one of the founders of the Canadian Dry Eye Summit, the leading dry eye conference in Canada and of the newly launched MyRetina net.

Panelist Prof Padmaja Sankaridurg

Prior to joining ZEISS as Head, Global Myopia Management in 2023, Professor Sankaridurg was Head of the Myopia Program and Head of Intellectual Property at the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Sydney, Australia. She is a Conjoint Professor at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She participated as an expert at the WHO-BHVI global meeting of myopia, 2015 , an advisory board member of the International Myopia Institute until 2023 and chaired task forces on white papers. She is a council member of the International Society for Contact Lens Research. Her research interests include refractive error development and progression, myopia management, strategies to control myopia, contact lenses and the economic burden of myopia.


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