Episode 4 - Telemedicine in Ophthalmology with Dr. Delan Jinapriya

01/20/23 • 44 min

In this episode, we discuss tele-medicine in ophthalmology (tele-ophthalmology) with Dr. Delan Jinapriya, a glaucoma specialist and the founder of Euclid Telehealth.

Dr. Delan Jinapriya is an Assistant Professor at Queen's University, in the Department of Ophthalmology specializing in Comprehensive Glaucoma. He is the Medical Director of the Galen Eye Centre, which is a multi doctor facility specializing in glaucoma. He feels that educating physicians is a powerful means by which to improve health care for Canadians. He is the Co-Director of the Queen's Glaucoma Fellowship Program, is a clinical and surgical mentor in the Queen's Ophthalmology Residency Program.

He is also an advocate for tele-ophthalmology and the founder of Euclid Telehealth, a company that is developing tele-ophthalmology solutions, to make expert eye care accessible to all Canadians.

In this episode, we discuss tele-medicine in ophthalmology (tele-ophthalmology) with Dr. Delan Jinapriya, a glaucoma specialist and the founder of Euclid Telehealth.

He is also an advocate for tele-ophthalmology and the founder of Euclid Telehealth, a company that is developing tele-ophthalmology solutions, to make expert eye care accessible to all Canadians.

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Episode 3 - Glaucoma Innovation with Dr. Hady Saheb

In this interview, we speak with Dr. Hady Saheb on his path to integrating MIGS into his career early on, and where he sees the future of innovation in glaucoma going.

Dr. Hady Saheb is an ophthalmologist and glaucoma surgeon based in Montreal, Canada. He is an Associate Professor and Director of the Complex Glaucoma and Advanced Anterior Segment Surgery Fellowship at McGill University’s Department of Ophthalmology and is on the Board of Directors at the Canadian Ophthalmological Society.

Dr. Saheb earned his medical degree and completed his residency at McGill. He was then a glaucoma fellow at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami and completed a second fellowship in Glaucoma and Advanced Anterior Segment Surgery with Dr. Ike Ahmed at the University of Toronto. He also completed a Master's in Public Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, with a specific focus on Clinical Trials and Health Leadership.

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Episode 5 - Innovation in Medical Education with Dr. Sanjay Sharma

Today, we speak with Dr. Sanjay Sharma of MEDSKL and Queen's University on the value of innovating in medical education.

Dr. Sharma, is the founder of MEDSKL, a free open access medical education initiative, which provides students and physicians with modules on the fundamentals of clinical medicine. MEDSKL is used by learners worldwide and has modules made by over 200 medical professors globally. All modules are peer-reviewed for quality, and cover all medical topics from cardiology to vascular surgery. He is also the founder of Optocase, which upskills 22,000 plus eye doctors.

He is a professor of ophthalmology and epidemiology at Queen’s University, has authored over 200 research articles and three books including the American Medical Association’s Evidence-based to Value Based Medicine. His research in macular degeneration, health economics and medical education has been cited in the scientific literature over 6,000 times. Dr. Sharma, who has received a number of grants and prestigious awards – including those from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation – completed his medical education at Harvard University.