Dr. Patrick Simard is graduated from Ecole d’Optometrie de l’Universite de Montreal in 2002 where he also obtained his Master’s Degree in vision’s science on keratoconus research (2006). He is a Fellow of the AAO, the IACLE, the BCLA and the IAOMC. He also obtained a Master’s Degree in Business Administration in 2010 from HEC Montreal. Dr. Simard is in private practice at Clinique d’Optometrie Belanger and is a clinical instructor and lecturer at Universite de Montreal since 2002. His research interests include myopia control, orthokeratology, aberrometry and scleral lenses. He co-holds a patent for a contact lens design that controls the development of myopia and axial length.