EyeCan Season 4, Episode 11 - Ophthalmology in Academia, with guest Dr. Sherif El-Defrawy

On this episode of EyeCan, we enjoy a conversation on Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Delan Jinapriya.

Dr. Jinapriya is an Ophthalmologist who specializes in Glaucoma and Cataract Surgery. He is the Fellowship Director for the Surgical and Medical Glaucoma Fellowship at Queen’s University, an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, the Medical Director and CEO of the Galen Eye Centre, the Medical Director of Euclid Telehealth, and an Executive Member of the Canadian Glaucoma Society.
He is the past Chair of the Canadian Ophthalmological Society Skills Transfer Courses, a reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, the Journal of Glaucoma, and a grant reviewer for the Canadian Glaucoma Research Council, and the Canadian Institute of Health Research. He is a key opinion leader in the field of Ophthalmology and the specialty of Glaucoma and serves as an advisor to Ontario Health’s Health Technology Assessment program, which helps determine the value of new technologies and whether they should be funded by Ontario’s Provincial Health Plan. He has developed and continues to develop Continuing Medical Education curricula approved by the Canadian Ophthalmological Society. He has been an invited speaker and presenter at the World Glaucoma Society, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, American Glaucoma Society, Canadian Ophthalmological Society, Canadian Glaucoma Society and many International and National conferences and continuing medical education symposia.
He completed his medical training at Queen’s University, and his Fellowship at University of Toronto. He has certificates from the Rotman School of Management in the areas of Health Systems Transformation, and Leadership. He spent the first 15 years of his career focused on delivering, and training ophthalmologists to deliver tertiary level surgical, procedural, and medical management of glaucoma.
Dr. Jinapriya became a physician to make a daily contribution to the betterment of people’s lives. After becoming an ophthalmologist, he made it his mission to reduce preventable vision loss. He believes that vision is the one sense that has the greatest impact on our ability to be independent, productive and happy. Saving vision, or delaying its deterioration by even a few years, has a tremendous impact on a person’s quality of life and their ability to lead an independent and maximally productive life. He also believes in order to deliver the best care to people, there needs to be a dedication to continual education and improvement, both for himself and for the field, and for this reason is dedicated to education initiatives through developing and delivering continuing medical education programs, training future ophthalmologists, training future glaucoma specialists, educating non-ophthalmology health care professionals, and educating patients and their families. In addition to the practice of ophthalmology, and being an educator, he is now dedicating much of his energy to finding ways to improve the systems and processes of ophthalmic healthcare delivery to serve more people and save more vision.
With your hosts, Dr. Mona Daghar and Dr. Hady Saheb.

Written and directed by Kim Tytler.

Produced by John Allaire of Allaire Strategic Works.
The EyeCan Podcast is made possible by support from Bayer.

Show notes:

Galen Eye Centre https://www.galeneyecentre.com/

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