Steve A. Arshinoff MD FRCSC was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, graduated in Medicine
from Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas, and is Professor, Department of
Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto, Canada, (and adjunct Professor
at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva,
Israel, and Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia}. His areas of research interest include
ophthalmic viscosurgical devices and related surgical techniques, phacoemulsification machine
design, immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS), intracameral antibiotics for
post-operative endophthalmitis prophylaxis, and medical outreach programs. He is on the
editorial board of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and has authored more than
300 peer-reviewed publications, 41 medical textbook chapters and 1 book (Immediately
Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery), and has presented >1,200 academic lectures worldwide.
Dr. Arshinoff has received numerous awards, including the American Academy of
Ophthalmology’s Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award in 2020 for his work in Northern
Ontario, Canada with the Ontario Medical Mobile Eye Care Unit since 1977, of which he is
Medical Director. He is the Founding President of the Toronto Ophthalmological Society, the Eye
Foundation of Canada, and the International Society of Bilateral Cataract Surgeons (iSBCS), and
is a Past President of the International Intra-ocular Implant Club, the parent society of the
American, European and all other Societies of Cataract and Refractive Surgery globally.