Dr. Vivian T. Yin is a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia specialized in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery. She worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and returned to Vancouver in 2019. After completing her medical degree and ophthalmology residency at the University of Toronto, she pursued a prestigious 2-year fellowship training in Ophthalmic Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She focuses on the treatment of periocular and orbital disease, with the use of genetic-based targeted therapy as her research interest, and speaks internationally on these topics. She is also a clinical trial investigator for multiple therapeutics in development for the treatment of thyroid eye disease.
Financial disclosure: Dr. Yin has/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization:
- Sling Therapeutics - Co-PI
- Amgen - Consultant and Co-PI
- AbCellar, Kriya - Consultant
- Viridian - Clinical Trial PI
Sessions in which Vivian Yin MD, MPH participates
Saturday 2 June, 2018
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Current Concepts II
8:00 -
10:00 |
2 hours
- Yvonne Buys (Moderator)
- Iqbal (Ike) Ahmed, MD (Participant)
- Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad MD, PhD (Participant)
- Vivian Yin MD, MPH (Moderator)
- Jonathan D. Solomon MD (Participant)
- Dr. Hunter Cherwek MD (Participant)
- Nisha Acharya MD, MS (Participant)
- Felipe A. Medeiros MD, PhD (Participant)
- Dr. Guillermo Rocha, MD, FRCSC, FACS (Participant)
- Victor L. Perez MD (Participant)
Sunday 3 June, 2018
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
STC – Botulinum Toxin Injection Techniques: A hands-on workshop
10:45 -
12:15 |
1 hour 30 minutes
- Harmeet Gill MD, FRCSC (Moderator)
- Babak Maleki MD (Participant)
- Dr. Ahsen Hussain (Participant)
- Navdeep Nijhawan MD, FRCSC, DABO (Participant)
- Patrick R. Boulos MD, FRCSC (Participant)
- Jamie Wong MD (Participant)
- Vivian Yin MD, MPH (Participant)
- Nancy Tucker MD (Participant)
- Dena Hammoudi MD (Participant)
- Vladimir Kratky, MC, FRCSC (Participant)
- Quynh Tram Nguyen MD (Participant)
- Norman Mainville MD (Participant)
Friday 14 June, 2019
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Sunday 16 June, 2019
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Current Concepts III
8:00 -
10:00 |
2 hours
- Dr. Mona Harissi-Dagher (Moderator)
- Tara McCannel MD, PhD (Participant)
- Vivian Yin MD, MPH (Moderator)
- Aki Kawasaki MD, PhD (Participant)
- Carlos Torres MD, FRCPC (Participant)
- Suzanne S. Gilbert PhD, MPH (Participant)
- Paolo Rama MD (Participant)
- Walter Wittich PhD, FAAO, CLVT (Participant)
- Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, FASRS (Participant)
- Jonathan D. Solomon MD (Participant)
Leveraging Research and Partnership to Achieve Universal Eye Health
13:30 -
15:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Friday 26 June, 2020
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Saturday 27 June, 2020
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Thursday 24 June, 2021
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
COS Lifetime Achievement Award 2020
18:00 -
18:10 |
10 minutes
Friday 25 June, 2021
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Sunday 27 June, 2021
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Current Concepts II
11:00 -
12:30 |
1 hour 30 minutes
- Sunir J. Garg, MD, FACS, FASRS (Keynote speaker)
- Micah Luong (Moderator)
- Danah H. Albreiki, MD MD (Moderator)
- Clara C. Chan, MD, FRCSC, FACS (Moderator)
- Vivian Yin MD, MPH (Moderator)
- Lisa Gould MD (Moderator)
- Robert Gizicki MDCM, FRCSC, DABO (Moderator)
- Fiona Rowe PhD, DBO, CGLI Cert. Ed. (Keynote speaker)
- Vivek Patel, MD MD (Keynote speaker)
- Rohit Shetty DNB, FRCS, PhD (Keynote speaker)
- Francis Price MD (Keynote speaker)
- S. Grace Prakalapakorn MD, MPH (Keynote speaker)
- Michael Coote MBBS, FRANZCO, GAICD (Keynote speaker)
- Leon Herndon MD (Keynote speaker)
- Sophie Bakri MD (Keynote speaker)
- Dr. Mona Harissi-Dagher (Moderator)
Sunday 12 June, 2022
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Academic global ophthalmology – the integrating force in eliminating blindness
12:30 -
14:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Friday 16 June, 2023
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Oculoplastics: Current Research
13:30 -
15:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Saturday 17 June, 2023
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
How AI and Telemedicine are Improving Access to Screening and Eye Care for the most Vulnerable
13:30 -
15:00 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Using Telemedicine to Scale up Reach and Increase Access to Eye Care around the World
15:45 -
17:15 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Friday 20 June, 2025
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
The Morning Show with Viv and Nav: TED talks!
7:00 -
8:30 |
1 hour 30 minutes
Sunday 22 June, 2025
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)