Originally from Montreal, Dr. Connie Chen grew up in Whitby, Ontario and moved to the beautiful Ottawa area in 2008. She received her degrees in biomedical sciences and optometry from the University of Waterloo in 2008, graduating on the Dean’s Honours List. During her summers, Dr. Chen had the privilege of working in the research labs of Dr. Joan Wither at Toronto Western Hospital and Dr. Sean Egan at the Hospital for Sick Children.
In 2007, she completed her ocular therapeutics externship at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma. At graduation, Dr. Chen was awarded an Alcon Continuing Professional Education Award, the A.W. Cole Award for Clinical Excellence, and Second Prize at the Advanced Medical Optics General Proficiency Awards.
She is an active member of the Canadian and Ontario associations of optometrists, as well as the Ottawa Society of Optometrists.
Dr. Chen has a musical background in piano and violin, and holds an ARCT Performers diploma. She has one young son, whose song requests have challenged her to recall her once-impressive repertoire of Disney and musical theatre numbers. During her spare time, she is an avid reader with triple-stacked bookshelves. (The book was better.)
