FAMILY EYECARE CENTRE - Key Persons
Dr. Wallace grew up in the Okanagan where he completed his Bachelor of Science degree at UBC with Honours. He then completed his Doctorate of Optometry degree at the University of Waterloo in 2017 and moved to Victoria with his wife in 2019. He loves the outdoors, cooking and spending time with his family. We look forward to him starting in September 2023.
Dr. LeRoy grew up on a small farm in Eastern Ontario. She attended the University of Waterloo and graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Optometry degree in 1998. While attending the University of Waterloo, Judith became quite involved with varsity athletics and competed for 5 yrs on both the track and cross-country running teams.
Dr. LeRoy grew up on a small farm in Eastern Ontario. She attended the University of Waterloo and graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Optometry degree in 1998. While attending the University of Waterloo, Judith became quite involved with varsity athletics and competed for 5 years on both the track and cross-country running teams. In her final varsity year, she was awarded the University of Waterloo's female athlete of the year, and in 2009 she was inducted into the University of Waterloo's Sports Hall of Fame. It was her love of running and the outdoors, which brought her to Victoria in 1998. She was a member of the National training centre, Pacific Sport, and during her first few years, she practiced Optometry part-time as she competed internationally. The highlight being, representing Canada at the 2000 World Cross-Country Championships. In 2001 Judith retired from international competition. She can now be found running the roads acting as a running guide to visually impaired runners.
Professionally, she is currently a board member of the Victoria CNIB. She is a past Clinical Director associated with the Medical program here in Victoria and has instructed for UVic Continuing Studies. She has also been involved with third world eye care work with TWECS (Third World Eye Care Society). TWECS consists of eye care professionals and individuals who collect used eyeglasses from the public and travel to Third World countries providing free eye care and eyeglasses to the poor. She traveled on missions to Cambodia in 2002 and Kenya in 2006. Recently however, her third world travels have been temporarily put on hold as she raises her young family, However Family Eyecare Centre still collects donated glasses to send to the TWECS projects. Dr. LeRoy has also developed a specialty contact lens practice, specifically, scleral contacts, for keratoconic patients and post corneal transplant patients and orthokeratology for myopia management. Dr. LeRoy is a Full A Registrant of the College of Optometry allowing her to manage eye diseases including glaucoma.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Director With the Medical Program
Dr. Nazima Sangha, originally from the West Coast, earned a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology with Honours from UBC and a Doctorate of Optometry from the Pacific University College of Optometry in Oregon. With great pleasure she joined the team at the Family Eyecare Centre in 2010. Dr. Sangha believes vision is far more than seeing 20/20. She is passionate about diagnosing and treating visual inefficiencies including those related to coordination of eye muscles, the ability to see depth (binocular vision), the ability to focus the eyes and to process visual information. She is the Clinical Director of the Vision Therapy Program at Family Eyecare Centre where individualized therapy services help people to attain their full visual potential. Dr. Sangha is also a Full A Registrant of the College of Optometry allowing her to manage eye diseases including glaucoma.
Dr. Sangha has been a Clinical Director with the Medical Program here in Victoria. She has also traveled with the Third World Eye Care Society (TWECS) and Amigos Eyecare to Romania, Honduras and Kenya to provide free eye care and eye wear to those most in need. It was in Kenya that she met Dr. LeRoy as a team member of TWECS. Locally, she has also volunteered with Special Olympics, the annual Diabetes Fair, sun-awareness programs and served as one of the youngest Council Members for the British Columbia Association of Optometrists. She also served as Chair of the the Greater Vancouver Optometric Society for two years and has earned the Tole Greenstein Award from the Northwest Congress of Optometry.