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PRIMARY EYE CARE PROGRAM SAT & SUN APRIL 25-­‐26, 2015 Meet our Speakers…
Dr. Paul M. Karpecki | OD, FAAO
Dr. Paul Karpecki received his Doctor of Optometry degree
from Indiana University and completed a fellowship in
medical cornea and refractive surgery in Kansas City,
Missouri in affiliation with the Pennsylvania College of
Optometry. He currently works in corneal services, heads the
ocular surface disease clinic and is director of clinical
research at the Koffler Vision Group in Lexington, Kentucky.
Dr. Karpecki was one of two Optometrists appointed to the
Delphi International Society at Wilmer-Johns Hopkins, which
included the top 25 dry eye experts in the world and the
National Eye Institute’s Dry Eye Committee to provide
insights around dry eye and women.
A noted educator and author, Dr. Karpecki has provided over
1,000 lectures at various meetings domestically and covering four continents. He has also
authored over 1,000 papers in Optometry journals, book chapters, e-blasts and newsletters.
He has previously served the following roles: President of the Optometric Council on
Refractive Technology, Chairman of the AOA Topical Interest Group in Refractive Surgery,
Co-Chair of the Integrated Eye Care Delivery Task Force for the American Society of Cataract
and Refractive Surgeons, Chair of the Kentucky Education Committee, Chair of the American
Optometric Association Continuing Education Committee and Vice President of the Ocular
Surface Society of Optometry.
He currently serves as the Chief Clinical Editor for Review of Optometry, the most read
journal in the profession of Optometry. He is also on the board for the charitable
organization Optometry Giving Sight.
Dr. John M. B. Rumpakis | OD, FAAO
Dr. Rumpakis is currently President and CEO of Practice
Resource Management, Inc., a firm that specializes in
providing a full array of consulting, appraisal and management services for health care professionals and industry
partners. He has developed some of the leading Internet‐
based software applications for the medical/eye care field
such as ReimbursementPLUS.com®, the industry leading
cloud‐based CPT CodeData and Information Service and
WhatsMyPracticeWorth.com®, a dynamic online practice
appraisal tool. He is also the founder of Opt‐ED®
Professional Continuing Education which creates and
delivers top tier continuing education around the country as well as Opt‐IN® which provides
Optometric marketing and promotional services.
Named the Chief Medical Coding Editor for Review of Optometry and Optometric Management, he has been extensively published on the topics of third party coding and billing,
strategy development and execution, practice management, team building, maximizing
effectiveness and profitability, including the text book “Business Aspects of Optometry.”
Dr. Rumpakis is a popular lecturer both nationally and internationally. In addition to having
had a successful solo practice, Dr. Rumpakis developed the practice management curriculum
at Pacific University College of Optometry and taught Optometric and Medical Economics
there for over a decade.
A 1984 graduate of Pacific University College of Optometry, he most recently served on the
AOA’s Third Party Center Executive Committee. He has also served as Vice‐Chair of AOA’s
Optometry’s Meeting® Executive Committee, was the primary architect of the AOA
Advantage program for student debt relief and has served as chair for the Student Debt
Special Project Team, the Gold Disk Project Team, the Practice Perpetuation Project Team
and Practice Transition Team.
Dr. Caroline A. Blackie | OD, MPHIL, PHD, FAAO
Dr. Caroline Blackie has been a practicing optometrist since
1994. She completed an MPhil in Clinical Statistics in 1997
prior to moving to the US. She received a PhD in
Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University in 2001
and an OD from UC Berkeley in 2003.
Since that time, in addition to clinical practice, she has
worked in the field of dry eye with specific focus on
meibomian gland dysfunction.
Dr. Blackie joined TearScience when it was founded in 2005.
She serves as their senior scientist, head of professional and
scientific communication. She has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers on the ocular
surface and dry eye and her passion is to improve diagnosis and treatment options for
patients who suffer from MGD and dry eye with an ultimate goal of generating a culture of
prevention.
Dr. Baseer Khan | MD, FRCSC
Dr. Baseer Khan received his MD from the University of
Toronto and completed a Fellowship with the Royal College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Thereafter, he
completed a Glaucoma and Anterior Segment Fellowship at
the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the
University of Toronto. He was honoured with the distinction
as the “top cataract surgeon” of his graduating class.
Dr. Khan is currently Director at the Clarity Eye Institute and
Executive Lead Physician of the Eye Institute at Southlake
Regional Health Centre. He is also on staff at Stevenson
Memorial Hospital where he has established a leading
glaucoma and anterior segment program.
Dr. Khan teaches at the University of Toronto where he is on staff at Kensington Eye
Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital.
Dr. Khan lectures nationally and internationally and is actively involved in clinical studies
and research. Dr. Khan was the first ophthalmologist to provide the Victus cataract
femtosecond laser procedure in Canada.
Dr. Amit Gupta | MD, FACS
Dr. Amit Gupta graduated from the Hahnemann University School of Medicine in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He went on to complete his Ophthalmology Residency at the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology and completed a
Retina and Vitreous Fellowship at Crozer-Chester Hospital under Dr. Stephen H. Sinclair.
Apart from receiving many awards, Dr. Gupta has published numerous articles and papers
and has been principal investigator in clinical trials of Age Related Macular Degeneration.
Dr. Gupta is currently on staff at Clarity Eye Institute in Toronto, Ontario.
Dr. King Chow | MD, FRCSC
Dr. King Chow received his MD from the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry,
University of Western Ontario and completed his Ophthalmology residency training and
fellowship also at the University of Western Ontario.
Dr. Chow is currently on staff at Clarity Eye Institute as a comprehensive Ophthalmologist
with a special interest in ocular surface disease. He is also a Clinical Associate at Mount
Sinai Hospital’s Department of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Melissa Tong | MD, FRCSC
Dr. Melissa Tong was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew
up in Manitoba, British Columbia, Hong Kong, Australia and
Toronto. She was accepted directly from high school into the
combined accelerated BS/MD program at Penn State
University/Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and
graduated summa cum laude. During medical school, she
trained at Wills Eye Hospital and Harvard/Massachusetts Eye
and Ear Infirmary. She completed her Ophthalmology
residency at the University of Louisville, Kentucky and
Glaucoma Fellowship at the University of California-Davis.
She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada
and is a licensed Ophthalmologist in Ontario and British
Columbia. Dr. Tong has received laser eye surgery training
from Moorfields Eye Hospital, London UK. She has also
participated in volunteer eye surgery with ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital. Dr. Tong has had
several published articles in the field of Glaucoma and has written a chapter on Glaucoma
in the Ophthalmology textbook, Albert & Jakobiec’s Principles Practice of
Ophthalmology. She is fluent in English and can converse in Cantonese.
Dr. Steve Dorrepaal | MD, FRCSC
Dr. Steve Dorrepaal obtained his medical degree at the
University of Toronto, where he stayed to complete his
residency in Ophthalmology. During his senior year, Dr.
Dorrepaal was the Chief Resident and received several awards
including resident with the highest standing over five years.
He also has interests in research and international
Ophthalmology and recently had the opportunity to travel on
an Ophthalmology mission to the Philippines where he
performed cataract surgeries.
After his residency, Dr. Dorrepaal decided to pursue
subspecialty fellowship training in the field of medical retina at
Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He also had an
appointment as Clinical Associate Staff at Kingston General Hospital and was actively
involved with the care of general Ophthalmology patients as well as teaching residents and
medical students.
Dr. Dorrepaal recently returned with his family to the Toronto area to practice at Clarity Eye
Institute in both the Vaughan and Scarborough locations. He is happy to accept patients
with diabetes, retinal vascular disease, AMD and degenerative conditions, retinal
dystrophies, peripheral retinal abnormalities including retinal breaks, and any other medical
diseases of the retina. Although his primary interest is retinal disease, Dr. Dorrepaal aims to
serve the comprehensive ophthalmological needs of his patients whenever possible.
Dr. Paul Sanghera | MD, FRCSC
Dr. Paul Sanghera obtained his bachelor and medical degrees
from the University of Alberta where he was on the dean’s
list. He then completed his Ophthalmology residency at the
University of Toronto where he would later go on to teach
medical students and lecture at the Department of
Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences.
Upon completing his residency, Dr. Sanghera received
surgical training with some of the world’s most renowned
surgeons. He was one of the first surgeons in Canada to
perform laser cataract surgery and is one of only a handful of
surgeons in the province who has completed training for the
keratoconus treatment Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking (CXL)
plus T-PRK. He has performed over 10,000 ocular procedures
to date, and is committed to using the latest technologies and techniques in cataract and
refractive surgery.
In addition to his work at LASIK MD, Dr. Sanghera is on staff at Mount Sinai Hospital and
the Kensington Eye Institute, both located in Toronto, Ontario. He also serves as the cochairman of the International Ophthalmology Program at the University of Toronto.
In 2014, Dr. Sanghera co-created and co-chaired Canada's first laser cataract teaching
symposium. He is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships including the Opal
Hess Memorial Scholarship and the Dr. AJ Pauly Bursary in Medicine, in addition to being
cited as the highest ranked applicant to enter the MD Program in 1997.
His extensive Ophthalmological research is highlighted by the multiple grants he’s received
over the years including a $10,000 grant from the Glaucoma Research Society of Canada.
Dr. Sanghera’s work has also been cited in the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Jeffrey Hurwitz | MD, FRCSC
Dr. Jeffrey Hurwitz has been the Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Director of the
Oculoplastics Program at the University of Toronto from 1986
to present. He was promoted to Professor of Ophthalmology
at the University of Toronto in July 1994 and assumed the role
as Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision
Sciences at the University of Toronto in 2001. Dr. Hurwitz is
also affiliated with the Hospital for Sick Children and
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto as an
Oculoplastic consultant. He is a member of several medical
societies both nationally and internationally and belongs to
many medical committees both locally and nationally.
Over the years, he has received many awards one of which was the Lester Jones Surgical
Anatomy Award from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery at the AAO in 2006. He has also been given a Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Ontario Medical Association Section on Ophthalmology in 2012.
Dr. Hurwitz also acts as a reviewer for many ophthalmological journals and has also served
as an external reviewer for various Ophthalmology programs in the country.
Dr. Hurwitz also provides his expertise in the underserviced areas in Muskoka and Thunder
Bay, Ontario and in the Caribbean, where he visits annually. For over 20 years, he has
provided his expertise to the underprivileged in the Caribbean and has also helped increase
the profile of the Ophthalmology program at the University of the West Indies at their three
campuses in Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados and formed a strong liaison between the
Ophthalmology programs at UWI and U of T. He is also on staff at St. George’s University
in Grenada as a consultant.
Dr. John Lloyd | MD, FRCSC
Dr. John Lloyd received his MD from the University of
Western Ontario. He completed his Ophthalmology residency
at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre, part of the worldrenowned Albert Einstein Medical College, in New York. He
was the chief resident in his final year and also completed a
fellowship in comprehensive Ophthalmology with a focus on
cataract and refractive surgery. He is a diplomat of the
American Board of Ophthalmology, a fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a member
of the American and Canadian Societies of Cataract and
Refractive Surgery.
Dr. Lloyd has been performing laser vision correction surgery
since 1997. Before joining LASIK MD, he worked at the
Bochner Eye Institute in Toronto. Dr. Lloyd is certified in several types of excimer lasers
including the state-of-the-art Bausch & Lomb Z100. He teaches eye surgery to
ophthalmology residents and gives lectures on ophthalmology to medical students at the
University of Toronto. He is on staff at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as well as at the
Kensington Eye Institute.
Dr. Lloyd regularly lectures on both anterior segment surgery and comprehensive
ophthalmology. He has received teaching awards from the University of Toronto’s
Department of Ophthalmology for his lectures on optics. He also has the distinction of being
an Examiner in Optics for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.