Steve A. Arshinoff, MD MD
Steve A. Arshinoff MD FRCSC was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, graduated in Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas, and completed his ophthalmic training at The University of Toronto, Canada, where he is Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences. His areas of research interest include ophthalmic viscosurgical devices and related surgical techniques, phacoemulsification machine design, immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery, 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, 38 medical textbook chapters and 1 book (Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery). He has presented >1,100 academic lectures worldwide. Dr. Arshinoff is the designer of the OMA-CNIB (Ontario Medical Association - Canadian National Institute for the Blind) Mobile Medical Eye Care Unit (MMECU) and is the medical director of this program to the North of Ontario, Canada (an area = 1.25 x Texas). 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.
Financial disclosure: Dr. Arshinoff has/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization:
1. Alcon
2. Entod Pharmaceuticals
3. I-Med Pharmaceuticals
4. Zeiss
5. Rayner
6. ArcticDx