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Education Background
Dr. Mounir Bashour, a Biomedical Engineering
graduate of Johns Hopkins University, completed his medical degree
at McGill University. He then specialized in ophthalmology at
George Washington University in Washington D.C., after having
completed a year as an intern at New York Medical College in
Manhattan.
Dr. Bashour is one of the only ophthalmologists in the world to
have completed three post-doctoral fellowships: the prestigious
American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
fellowship in Oculoplastics at the University of Toronto, as well
as a Pediatric Ophthalmology and a Refractive Surgery fellowship at
McGill University.
Dr. Bashour completed his certificate of Teaching in the Biomedical
Sciences and Royal College Clinician Investigator Program at the
University of Toronto, where he also completed a Doctor of
Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Science.
Refractive Experience
Dr. Bashour has worked in several laser centers
in Canada including Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Niagara Falls, and
Windsor. He has been performing laser refractive procedures since
1994 and was part of the first groups of ophthalmologists to do so
in the USA.
Dr. Bashour has extensive experience performing laser surgery with
several types of lasers and microkeratomes. He has completed more
than 40,000 LASIK procedures. Dr. Bashour has also performed
thousands of Zyoptix wavefront procedures.
Dr. Bashour instructed and worked at the teaching hospital of the
University of Sherbrooke, as the Ophthalmology Clinical Assistant
Professor, the Director of Ophthalmic, Plastic and Reconstructive
surgery and the Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology. He was also
the Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at McGill University.
Accomplishments & Awards
Dr. Bashour received the NSERC PGS Scholarship (Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council of Canada) in 1998. Dr. Bashour is
an accomplished researcher and speaker and has won several awards
for his work including Best Scientific Paper for work on the
corneal epithelium in LASIK surgery at the American Society of
Cataract and Refractive Surgery in 2001. He is the editor of the
Wired Ophthalmologist section in the Techniques in Ophthalmology
Journal.
Associations & Professional
Memberships
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Royal College of Surgeons of Canada
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Canadian Ophthalmology Society
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American Academy of Ophthalmology
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International Society of Refractive
Surgery
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American, Canadian and European Societies of
Cataract and Refractive Surgery
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American and European Societies of Ophthalmic,
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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American and International College of
Surgeons
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