Every summer, we award one or more medical students who have just completed their second year of medical school, with a $8,000.00 scholarship to spend the summer furthering their education in ophthalmic medicine, surgery and research.
The program consists of education and research experience in the diagnosis and management of eye disease. It is conducted at the Eye Associates with portions at various University of Toronto teaching hospitals, encompassing all sub-specialty areas in ophthalmology. Each student will become involved in at least one research project that is supported by the Foundation.
To date there have been 50 EFC Summer scholars since we began the program in 1991, two thirds of whom have gone on to careers in Ophthalmology.
Past summer scholars include:
- T. Mark Johnson Western University 1992
- Iqbal Ahmed University of Toronto 1993
- Michael Mills Western University 1994
- Rose Bilotta University of Toronto 1995
- Kevin Leung University of Toronto 1995
- Joseph Ma University of Toronto 1996
- Mark Chandra Queens University 1997
- Garrett Kovarik University of Ottawa 1997
- Hadi Hani University of Toronto 1998
- Hyoung Lho University of Toronto 1999
- Sanraj Bassi University of Saskatchewan 2000
- David Albiani Queens University 2000
- Edward Wong Western University 2001
- Jason D. Blair Queens University 2002
- Yi Ning Strube Queens University 2002
- Clara Chan Queens University 2003
- Kamrouz Kassiri University of Manitoba 2003
- Sylvia Chen McGill University 2004
- Azien Safarpour University of Ottawa 2004
- William Dubinski Queens University 2005
- Keyvan Koushan University of Toronto 2005
- Steven Schendel University of Alberta 2006
- King Chow Western University 2006
- Dominik Podbielski University of Toronto 2007
- Silvia Odorcic University of Toronto 2007
- Alec Yarascavitch McMaster University 2008
- Matthew R. Lincoln University of Toronto 2008
- Kim Le University of Toronto 2009
- Paul Bastinanelli McGill University 2009
- Jonathan Micieli McGill University 2010
- Syed Yaser Habeeb Queens University 2010
- Stephan Ong Tone McGill University 2011
- Richard Norman University of Toronto 2012
- Parampal Grewal University of British Columbia 2012
- Henry Fung University of Toronto 2013
- Irfan Kherani University of Alberta 2013
- Thomas Berk University of Toronto 2014
- Maya Tong University of British Columbia 2014
- Aaron Chan University of Toronto 2015
- Pauline Sawicki University of Toronto 2015
- Harry Dang University of Ottawa 2016
- Daniel Li University of Toronto 2016
- Tina Felfeli University of Toronto 2017
- Harrish Nithianandan University of Ottawa 2017
- Austin Pereira University of Toronto 2018
- Carter Lim University of Ottawa 2018
- Albert Hu University of Alberta 2019
- Mark Lukewich University of Toronto 2019
- Yusuf Ahmed University of Toronto 2020
- Yuri Chaban University of Toronto 2020
- Rishi Gupta University of Ottawa 2021
- Dylan Whitney University of Alberta 2021
- Michael Balas University of Toronto 2022
- Gareth Leung University of Ottawa 2022
- Shayyan Wasim University of Saskatchewan 2023
- Brendan Tao University of British Columbia 2023
We are currently accepting applications.
Application deadline: February 2nd, 2024
Due to Covid 19 there may be limited access to hospitals for the 2024 program.
We ask that applicants write to us expressing their interest and include their
Curriculum Vitae and the dates of their availability for the summer of 2024.
We expect that prospective students would be available for at least
8 –10 weeks during the summer of 2024.
The Eye Foundation of Canada
2115 Finch Avenue West, Suite 314
Toronto, Ontario M3N 2V6
For more information please call us (416) 743-9046
or email us.