Dr. Vishakha Thakrar is founder and director of Vaughan Vision Centre, an advanced specialty contact lens clinic that focusses on complex scleral lens fitting, myopia management, and advanced dry eye treatment. After receiving her cornea and contact lens residency, she started her career as the Director of the Contact Lens Service at the Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic.  She later helped establish the Scleral Lens Clinic at the Kensington Eye Institute in Toronto.  She speaks internationally and has written extensively on contact lenses, corneal disease and myopia management.  She is co-founder of the Canadian Contact Lens Association, and is currently co-investigator of the Myopia in Practice Study.  She is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and the Scleral Lens Society.