If you are over 40 or have a family member with an eye condition, you will be interested in attending this special presentation.

More than 5.5 million Canadians are living with eye conditions that put them at serious risk of going blind. That includes more than 700,000 British Columbians. The crisis is real, particularly for those over 40, as the number of people with vision loss doubles every decade. The good news is that education, prevention, treatment and important scientific breakthroughs are about to put the odds of keeping your sight in your favour.

Join Doug Earle, President and CEO of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, as he highlights how his organization is transforming to meet the emerging vision health crisis posed by diseases including age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and inherited retinal diseases.

This event will also feature remarks by Dr. Briar Sexton, General and Neuro-Ophthalmologist, and Jack McCormick, a recent business school graduate whose genetic blinding disease makes him a potential candidate for the world's first FDA-approved gene therapy. In this panel discussion, you will learn about Canada's emerging vision health crisis and about how gene therapies are poised to revolutionize the future of vision health care.