Prof Steve Arshinoff (Canada)
Steve A. Arshinoff MD FRCSC was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, graduated in Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas, and is Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto, Canada, (and adjunct Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel, and Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia).
His areas of research interest include ophthalmic viscosurgical devices and related surgical techniques, phacoemulsification machine design, immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS), intracameral antibiotics for post-operative endophthalmitis prophylaxis, and medical outreach programs.
He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, 41 medical textbook chapters and 1 book (Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery), and has presented >1,200 academic lectures worldwide.
Dr. Arshinoff has received numerous awards, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award in 2020 for his work in Northern Ontario, Canada with the Ontario Medical Mobile Eye Care Unit since 1977, of which he is Medical Director.
He is the Founding President of the Toronto Ophthalmological Society, the Eye Foundation of Canada, and the International Society of Bilateral Cataract Surgeons (iSBCS), and is a Past President of the International Intra-ocular Implant Club, the parent society of the American, European and all other Societies of Cataract and Refractive Surgery globally.
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