Guillermo Rocha, MD, FRCSC, FACS is originally from Mexico City, Mexico. He trained in Ophthalmology at McGill University in Montreal and has completed subspecialty training in Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, and Cornea and External Diseases. He completed the Physician CEO Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Management (2016) and the Foundations of Clinical Research Certificate Program, Harvard Medical School (2022).
He is Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at McGill University and Chief, Division of Ophthalmology at MUHC in Montréal, Canada, President of the COS Foundation, Past President of the Canadian Ophthalmological Society (2016-2018), and past President of the Canadian Cornea, External Diseases and Refractive Surgery Society.
In 1995, he was awarded the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation & Medical Research Council of Canada Resident Research Award for his work on the causative factors of ocular inflammation. Dr. Rocha was the recipient of the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba iCare Award for 2014. In 2015, he was recognized as one of the 10 Most Successful Mexicans in Canada, followed by an award as one of the 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians in 2016. Dr. Rocha performs Anterior Segment, Refractive and Corneal Surgeries.
Financial disclosure: Dr. Rocha has/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization:
- AbbVie
- Alcon
- Allergan
- Bausch + Lomb
- Baxis
- Johnson & Johnson
- Staar
- SunPharma
- Labtician Ophthalmics
Sessions in which Dr. Guillermo Rocha, MD, FRCSC, FACS participates
- Keynote Lecture: How to be an innovator
- Participant Dr. Guillermo Rocha, MD, FRCSC, FACS |
- 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM | 15 minutes Part of: Toronto Eye Review Course: Practical pearls for everyday practice
- President's welcome
- Participant Dr. Guillermo Rocha, MD, FRCSC, FACS |
- 8:00 AM - 8:05 AM | 5 minutes Part of: Current Concepts I
- Surgeons SHOULD offer presbyopia IOLs in a patient with prior refractive surgery
- Participant Dr. Guillermo Rocha, MD, FRCSC, FACS |
- 10:49 AM - 10:59 AM | 10 minutes Part of: The Great Debate: Multifocals vs Monofocals
- Debate | Débat
- CSI: Cataract Surgery Investigation Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building) - Room 803
- 6:30 AM - 8:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Dr. Ike Ahmed, along with a team of forensic ophthalmologist investigators, will come face to face with every surgeon's worst nightmare... the unha...
- Current Concepts II Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building) - Room 801
- 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 2 hours
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of this session, participants will be able to:Identify clinical applications of structure and...
- Introduction: The COS-Dr. Harold Stein Innovator Lectureship
- Participant Dr. Guillermo Rocha, MD, FRCSC, FACS |
- 9:33 AM - 9:35 AM | 2 minutes Part of: Current Concepts II
- Phakic IOLs in unique circumstances
- Participant Dr. Guillermo Rocha, MD, FRCSC, FACS |
- 4:19 PM - 4:28 PM | 9 minutes Part of: Hot Topics in Refractive Surgery
- Intracorneal ring segments + PTK + CXL in the management of keratoconus
- Participant Dr. Guillermo Rocha, MD, FRCSC, FACS |
- 3:47 PM - 3:57 PM | 10 minutes Part of: Treatment of Keratoconus: Who thought this would be a refractive session?
- Talk | Exposé