About the Author

Dr. North has been practicing at Merivale Vision Care since 1992, after graduating from the University of Waterloo School of Optometry.

Dr. North enjoys getting to know her patients in order to better meet their visual needs. Dr. North is very passionate about the profession of optometry and has spent many hours advancing the profession through positions on both the Ontario Association Board of Optometrists and the Canadian Association of Optometrists Board of Governors and the Canadian Association of Optometrists Council. Dr. North was the president of the Canadian Association of Optometrists from 2009–2011. Since 1992, Dr. North has made Ottawa her home, where she enjoys her free time with her 2 lovely daughters.

In 2015, Dr. North opened Ottawa Vision Therapy, a space dedicated to helping those with vision issues that affect learning, reading, attention, and day-to-day living.

We are equipped and ready to provide comprehensive binocular vision assessments, pediatric and special needs examinations. We also offer learning disability/visual perceptual evaluations, traumatic brain injury/concussion examinations, sports vision evaluation, and in-office vision therapy, also known as vision training or orthoptics.