OUR OPTOMETRIC TEAM
Meet our optometric team. We offer a full range of eye health services to clients of all ages - all with personalized attention and a smile. In our eye care office, every patient is treated warmly. Individualized attention is the foundation of our care, to ensure that your eyes remain healthy. We're dedicated to optimizing your vision!
Meet Dr. Vincent Gagliardi, Dr. Arwa Shabo, Dr. Katherine Papasodaro & Dr. Victoria Lam- Optometric Team Near You
Optometrist
Dr. Vincent Gagliardi is the founder of Dr. Vincent Gagliardi and Associates where he has been providing high quality, comprehensive eye care to families in Maple and beyond for over 20 years. Dr. Gagliardi established his practice with the goal of providing superior family eye care by offering first rate products and services to all patients. Over the years, he has expanded the practice by building a team of professionals with a wide array of expertise. He graduated as a Doctor of Optometry in 1996 from the New England College of Optometry in Boston, MA with many awards including Valedictorian...
Optometrist
Dr. M. Katherine Papasodaro has been providing comprehensive eye care to the Maple community and surrounding area since joining Dr. Vincent Gagliardi and Associates in 2015. She takes the time to educate her patients on the importance of routine eye examinations to promote preventive care and eye health. Recognizing that routine eye exams can lead to the detection of a wide array of systemic diseases led to her desire to pursue optometry as a career. Dr. Papasodaro has a special interest in refractive surgery co-management. She graduated with honours from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Science degree...
Dr. Arwa Shabo received her Honours Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Toronto and continued pursuing her passion in healthcare by obtaining her Optometry degree at Aston University in Birmingham, UK in 2016. She continued her academic advancement by receiving a Master of Optometry in her last year of residency. After several years of travel and working abroad she decided to come back to her roots in Ontario and obtained her Doctor of Optometry degree at the University of Waterloo School of Optometry in 2019. Dr. Shabo has extensive experience in cataract management and post-ops, macular degeneration, general glaucoma...
Dr. Victoria Lam received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo majoring in Biomedical Sciences. Having a passion for Optometry, Dr. Lam went on to receive her Doctor of Optometry Degree from the University of Waterloo. During Dr. Lam’s externship placements in Waterloo, Toronto and Detroit, she gained valuable experience in managing binocular vision disorders, and ocular diseases including diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, macular degeneration, and dry eye disease. Dr. Lam is certified in the use of Therapeutic Pharmaceutical Agents (TPA) and is able to prescribe medications to treat various diseases. Prior to joining Dr. Gagliardi’s...