Dr. Vivian Yin, MD, MPH, FRCSC
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 Nov 2019. She focuses on the treatment of periocular and orbital cancer, with the use of genetic-based targeted therapy as her research interest, and speaks internationally on these topics. 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.
Dr. Yin also practices in global health with a Master in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She generously donates her spare time to work towards eliminating preventable blindness. She has traveled to Bangladesh, the Philippines, Nepal, Tunisia and India to teach and provide surgical care for those in need. She is the past chair of the Canadian Association for Public Health and Global Ophthalmology and past board chair for Seva Canada. She's currently the COS representative to the International Council of Ophthalmology.
Financial disclosure: Dr. Yin has/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization:
- Sling Therapeutics - Co-PI
Sessions in which Dr. Vivian Yin, MD, MPH, FRCSC participates
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building) - Room 801
Yvonne Buys (Moderator)
Iqbal (Ike) Ahmed, MD (Participant)
Dr. Vivian Yin, MD, MPH, FRCSC (Moderator)
Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad MD, PhD (Participant)
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)
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building) - Room 714 A
Dr. Hunter Cherwek MD (Participant)
Simon P. Holland BSc, MD (Moderator)
Dr. Vivian Yin, MD, MPH, FRCSC (Moderator)
Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building) - Room 716 A
STC | CTC
Harmeet Gill MD, FRCSC (Moderator)
Babak Maleki MD (Participant)
Dr. Ahsen Hussain (Participant)
Dr. Navdeep Nijhawan, MD, FRCSC, DABO (Participant)
Patrick R. Boulos MD, FRCSC (Participant)
Jamie Wong MD (Participant)
Dr. Vivian Yin, MD, MPH, FRCSC (Participant)
Nancy Tucker MD (Participant)
Dena Hammoudi MD (Participant)
Vladimir Kratky (Participant)
Quynh Tram Nguyen MD (Participant)
Norman Mainville MD (Participant)
Dr. Vivian Yin, MD, MPH, FRCSC (Participant)