Dr. Steven Schendel is the Interim Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, Vancouver Coastal Health, and practices at the Vancouver General Hospital Eye Care Centre. He received his MD at the University of Alberta, and completed his residency training at the University of British Columbia. Upon finishing his Royal College examinations, he completed a glaucoma fellowship at the Sydney Eye Hospital in Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Schendel served as the Chair of the Planning Committee for the Canadian Glaucoma Society Annual Meeting in Mont Tremblant, Quebec in 2017, and is Chairing the Planning Committee for the Glaucoma section of the COS Annual Meeting in 2019. His clinical work is focused on glaucoma and cataract, and he is the OR Director at VGH Eye Care Centre OR.

Financial disclosure: I have/had an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization:

1. Alcon
   
2. Allergan
3. Bausch + Lomb
4. Labtician Théa
5. Novartis
6. Santen