Clinical Day - Friday, May 29th, 2026
St. James Club听
Montreal, QC
7:30am - 4:00pm
Ophthalmologists听听- $175
Retired Ophthalmologists - $75
Residents or Medical Students - $25
Scientist, Orthopists, Nurse - $75
Speakers, Moderators - $0
To be eligible to register, students must have successfully completed at least one clinical elective ophthalmology rotation (in addition to your mandatory ophthalmology elective)
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ALL attendees must register by the deadline, walk-up registrations will not be permitted.
Reminder: Industry looking to participate must register by contacting听mcgillday.ophthalmology [at] outlook.com
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听Dr. Stephen Fichman Lecturer
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听Dr. Uday Devgan
Dr. Uday Devgan,听MD, FACS, FRCS(Glasg)听is ranked as the number 1 eye surgeon in California听and number 2 in the USA (out of more than 15,000 ophthalmologists). He is in private practice, specializing in cataract and refractive surgery, at Devgan Eye Surgery听in Los Angeles and a full partner at Specialty Surgical Center in Beverly Hills, California. He is honored to have performed cataract surgery for more than 80 fellow eye surgeons and he knows that this personal recognition from your peers is far more important than a celebrity endorsement. Patients from all over the USA (and from other countries) fly to Los Angeles to have their cataract surgery with Dr. Devgan. A leading eye surgery journal deemed Uday Devgan MD as 1 of the top 25 leaders听in ophthalmology of the last 25 years.
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Dr Devgan is also passionate about teaching ocular surgery, particularly cataract surgery, to the next generation of ophthalmologists. He has previously served as full clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the UCLA School of Medicine as well as Chief of Ophthalmology at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center and has been actively involved in resident surgical teaching for over two decades. Dr. Devgan is humbled to have won the most Surgical Professor Teaching Awards (5x) in the history of UCLA Ophthalmology. He continues to mentor former residents after the culmination of their training and is proud to say that he has directly mentored nearly 200 residents over the course of thousands of ocular surgeries.
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Uday has been involved in consulting with many ophthalmic companies over the course of the past two decades and has participated in designing instruments, developing surgical platforms, evolving surgical techniques, and innovating new technologies.
He has been named one of the top key opinion leaders in ophthalmology and he has taught ocular surgery in more than 60 countries to tens of thousands of fellow ophthalmologists. Dr Devgan runs CataractCoach.com听which has 2,500+ teaching videos/articles and boasts 100,000 subscribers with more than 50 million views across all platforms and growing. He also developed an entire curriculum series, a free听cataract surgery book, and now the top podcast听in ophthalmology. He has helped to launch a sister channel, RetinaRounds.com听which duplicates the success of CataractCoach for all topics related to the posterior segment of the eye. He writes regular columns in multiple ophthalmic journals and his听Back to Basics听monthly feature in the journal Ocular Surgery News听about the fundamentals of ophthalmic surgery has been distributed to 80,000 ophthalmologists worldwide for more than fifteen years.
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DR. DARIO LORENZETTI LECTURER
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Dr. Jason Jones
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Dr. Jason Jones practically raised in the glow of a slit lamp. Born in Iowa City while his father finished ophthalmology residency, he grew up in Sioux City where his father built a practice during the 鈥�70s, and for three decades shaping the leading edge of phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation.听After completing his own residency at the Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah, Dr. Jones returned to join the practice in the early 2000s鈥攂ringing with him more advanced phaco and IOL technology, IOL exchange capabilities, and a forward-leaning perspective of refractive cataract surgery. He has participated in multiple FDA-monitored clinical studies, authored and co-authored numerous papers, articles, and book chapters, and has lectured on anterior segment topics both locally and internationally.听Colleagues describe his meticulousness in surgery to the point that 鈥渉e doesn't just dot the i's and cross the t's, he alphabetizes them''; in his spare time, he reviews video of each surgery鈥攂ecause for Dr. Jones, 鈥渇ree time鈥� is another opportunity for continuous improvement. Outside the OR, he enjoys popular music and movies spanning from his childhood classics to current favorites. He also maintains an aspirational relationship with the world鈥檚 most expensive sports cars (the kind he cannot justify鈥攐r afford), which has resulted in a growing collection of diecast models he can admire without a second mortgage.
He speaks more Chinese than his two daughters (though far less than his wife, who grew up in Beijing), and he holds regular conversations with the family pug鈥攔eportedly the only 鈥渄aughter鈥� who consistently tolerates his commentary.
DR. SEAN B. MURPHY LECTURER
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Dr Rosa Braga-Mele
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Rosa Braga-Mele MD, MEd, FRCSC听is Professor of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada. She graduated听Magna Cum Laude听from University of Ottawa Medical School. She then completed her residency at the University of Toronto. She went on to complete her听master鈥檚 degree听in Higher Education.
Dr. Braga-Mele is a cataract specialist and educator who speaks frequently at both the national and international level on advanced surgical techniques and innovations in phacoemulsification surgery and complicated cataract cases and IOL development. She has over 150 published abstracts and papers.
Dr. Braga-Mele served as the Chair of the Education Clinical Committee (2015-2018) and Chair of Cataract Clinical Committee (2010-2015) for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) and was a member of the Governing Board for ASCRS. She is editorial board of multiple ophthalmic publications.
She was the inaugural Research Director at the Kensington Eye Institute in Toronto from 2007-2012. She was appointed Cataract Director at the KEI in May 2013-Dec 2019.
She has won multiple teaching awards both at the undergraduate and resident levels at the University of Toronto, for her teaching and mentorship abilities including the Silver Needle award in 2003, 2007, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2020 for best resident surgical teacher, and the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Community-Based Teaching Award in 2016. She was given the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Senior Achievement Award in 2013 for distinguished volunteer service and the AAO Secretariat Award in 2012 for special contributions to the Academy and ophthalmology out of proportion to others and making a difference in her efforts.
She was awarded University of Ottawa Alumni Association 2019 Meritas Tabaret Award given to those that have distinguished themselves through excellence and achievement in their professional field throughout their career; have demonstrated leadership in their profession; have made a positive contribution to the prestige, influence and reputation of the University of Ottawa; and have exercised and continue to exercise a strong positive influence in the community.
In 2022 she was awarded the prestigious Binkhorst Medal and Lecture by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery for an accomplished and exemplary career in ophthalmology.
In 2024 she was included on The Ophthalmologist Power List, which honors the most influential ophthalmologists worldwide.
In addition, she is a mother of 3 boys, ages 28, 26 and 18. She is a Canadian certified听Level 1 basketball coach and has coached many boys鈥� basketball teams to听championships. She has her 2nd听degree black belt in karate. She is a nationally ranked听bodybuilder as a Natural athlete in women鈥檚 physique division winning a bronze medal at听Canadian Natural Nationals in November 2021.