North Vancouver's Local, Independent Eye Care Clinic

Since 2017, View Optometry has been Lower Lonsdale's neighbourhood option for comprehensive eye exams and personalized eye care, the kind of clinic where the doctor learns your name, your history, and what actually matters to your day-to-day vision.

We built View Optometry to feel like the opposite of a big-box optical counter: unrushed exams, honest recommendations, and advanced diagnostic technology used to inform your care, not upsell you.

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A TEAM THAT KNOWS YOU BY NAME

Behind every exam is a front desk team trained across the full patient journey, from booking and insurance direct billing to frame selection and pickup, so you're never passed between departments or explaining your situation twice. It's a small-clinic experience, on purpose.

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OWNER & OPTOMETRIST

  • Teri is the owner and lead optometrist at View Optometry, and the reason the clinic exists at all, she opened its doors in North Vancouver in 2017 with a simple goal: give patients the kind of unrushed, thorough eye exam that actually explains what's happening with their vision and their health. She earned her Bachelor of Science from Simon Fraser University and her Doctor of Optometry from Pacific University in Oregon, and has been recognized for her volunteer work with the BC Doctors of Optometry.

    Patients often describe Teri as hard-working, dedicated, and genuinely curious about their overall wellbeing, she's as likely to catch an early sign of diabetes or high blood pressure during a comprehensive exam as she is to help you pick out the right frames. Outside the clinic, she's active in local community events and volunteer eye care work both close to home and abroad.

    If you are dying to hear more, here are some fun facts about Dr. Hines:

    -She has wanted to become an optometrist since she was 11 years old

    -She grew up in Port Coquitlam

    -She met her husband when she was 18 years old

    -She takes part in activities put on by the Lower Lonsdale BIA

    -Her favorite type of food to eat out is sushi

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OPTOMETRIST

  • Jenn brings curiosity and personalized care to every exam. She believes good eye care goes beyond 20/20 vision, it's about listening, educating, and helping patients feel confident about their eye health, whether that means managing dry eyes, fitting a first pair of contacts, or slowing the progression of myopia in a child.

    Jenn studied Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia before completing her Doctor of Optometry with honours at the University of Waterloo. She has a particular interest in post-concussion and acquired brain injury vision care, and now offers dedicated binocular vision and neuro-visual assessments at View Optometry for patients dealing with lingering visual symptoms after a concussion or long COVID.

    Some more fun facts to get to know Dr. Leung:

    -She got her first pair of glasses at 3 years old

    -She grew up in Markham, Ontario

    -Her dream job as a child was to be a hairstylist

    -She went to Bluefields, Nicaragua 3 times to do volunteer work

    -She loves a good bowl of pho, even in the summer heat

DR. HINES WORK IN THE PHILIPPINES

My passion is eye health and spreading the knowledge of how important taking care of your eyes can be.  So, I made it my mission to go abroad and share my passion of eye care with people who may not have access to all the doctors I was able to go see in Canada.

One day I set my sights on the Philippines. Lots of people would benefit from my help and I felt confident I would be able to achieve my goal. I went with a team of optometrists, ophthalmologists and students. The ophthalmologists would perform cataract surgeries while the rest of us would distribute glasses, sunglasses, and perform eye health assessments. I was so happy to be part of a positively hard-working group. We took three flights to get there, I don’t need to tell you that one flight can be tiring enough but three was even more grueling. The best part was yet to come, we got picked up in a small truck and drove for five and a half hours on a one lane road through the jungle where on one side of us was all forest and on the other side there was the edge of a cliff! My confidence plummeted a little, after all, I was sitting on the cliff side of the truck but I remained optimistic that the rest of the trip would be worth it.

Once we arrived, we got out of the truck looking a little disheveled but relieved that we had bypassed the dangers of the cliff we had to face the entire way up.

Our team of 10 started right away, we walked into the community building to provide eye health and vision exams. I will never forget the silent gratitude that was emitted from the people we helped. Some may not have had any eye health problems but they were grateful nonetheless to receive confirmation of something that may have always remained a question in their minds.

Over the next three and a half days we helped around 1200 people who had never dreamed of getting eye care in their lifetime. Mothers with newborns appreciated the care we gave to their babies and thanked us with kind words in their own language. Some of the elders in the village did need some strong pairs of glasses and when they tried them on, the look of relief washing over their faces was priceless to watch. Some of them smiled in gratitude, others definitely liked the way they looked with glasses and all of them loved the equipment that we brought. One thing I won’t forget is the wonderous look on their faces that first appear when they first saw my portable autorefractor. Little to none knew what this machine was used for and its usage was probably lost in translation but all that mattered to me were that these people were getting the help they needed or they could at least say “I have had one eye exam in my life”.

The trip home was filled with exhaustion but it was sort of a triumphant exhaustion, I had done it, I had reached my goal of helping people and spreading my wealth of knowledge and that was all I ever wanted to do. I knew at one point in my life I would want to do this again if not more than one time, the place and time then was unknown but I was sure of what I was going to do and nothing was going to stop me.

Group of people gathered outside a building with a green metal roof, some sitting and some standing, with children and adults, in a lush, hilly area, possibly attending an event or waiting in line.
A healthcare worker or caregiver uses a diagnostic device to examine an elderly man sitting in a room with medical equipment.
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A muddy roadside area with a steep exposed soil slope overgrown with green plants and grass. A black vehicle with a trailer is parked nearby, and a colorful tourist train can be seen in the background.
A young woman standing in front of an eye chart on a whiteboard, pointing at the chart, and holding a notebook, inside a classroom.
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DR. HINES WORK IN PERU

After my first mission trip to the Philippines I felt invigorated. Seeing what I could do to help others and feeling pride while doing it was an amazing feeling. Now, I was ready once more.

This time a friend and I joined forces to organize a trip and we decided to set our sights on Peru! A couple of months and three flights later, I was in Lima, Peru, less frazzled than when I arrived in the Philippines which to me was already in itself an accomplishment.

Once more there were 10 of us in our team, and the majority of us would’ve needed a translator if not for two of our members who were fluent in Peruvian Spanish. It made getting around a whole lot easier! During the next four days, we visited some of the poorest areas in Lima, the people were living in improvised houses that were so close to one another. It felt crowded but I was determined to help as many people as possible no matter the conditions. One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the reaction upon seeing the instruments we use to assess eye health. As an optometrist, the equipment itself to me is mundane as a I see it every day. However, there are a lot of people globally that have never seen an ophthalmoscope or a retinoscope in their life. The astonished looks I get as I start telling them how I am going to use these machines on them never get old.

We helped approximately 375 people a day; men, women, and children who had never had any kind of eye exam performed on them were so grateful. After four days of clinic, we had managed to assist around 1500 people with their eye health and supplying glasses to those who needed them. Little by little I felt like I was making a difference, the healthcare I get in Canada was unbelievable compared to the next to no healthcare they get in many countries. I am humbled to be born in Canada and would love to go on another one of these trips in the future.

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A woman with brown hair in a ponytail holds her hand to a young boy's face in a gesture of blessing or greeting, while a girl leans in closely. Several other people are in the background, some sitting and some standing, in an indoor setting.
A woman using a flashlight to look closely at a man’s eye.