Eye Bank Committee
This committee represents eye banks nationally with a common voice. The goals of the Eye Bank Committee are to collect and share eye bank data; develop leading practices in eye banking in Canada; and facilitate communication and exchange between eye banks.
Eye Bank Committee Members
Stephen Brodovsky (Chair) | Medical Director, Misericordia Eye Bank (Winnipeg, MB) |
Patricia-Ann Laughrea | Medical Director, Banque d’yeux du CUO (Quebec, QC) (Chair) |
Charlotte Wedge | Associate Medical Director, Eye Bank of Canada (Ont. Div.) |
Amber Appleby | Director, Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation, CBS |
Clara Chan | President, Canadian Cornea, External Disease and Refractive Surgery Society, Medical Director, Eye Bank of Canada (Ont. Div.) |
Michele Mabon | Medical Director, Banque d’Yeux du Québec (Montreal, QC) |
Mijana Ridic | Manager, Lions Eye Bank of Alberta |
Jeanne d’Arc Uwamaliya | Eye Bank Technician, Banque d’yeux du Centre universitaire d’ophtalmologie |
Vikas Sharma | Medical Director, Lions Eye Bank of Saskatchewan |
Brent Browett | Director, Tissue Program (Trillium Gift of Life Network) |
Brian Ha | Assistant Head Technologist, Eye Bank of BC |
Christopher Seamone | Medical Director, Regional Tissue Bank of NS |
Christine Humphreys | Manager, The Eye Bank of Canada (Ont. Dive) |
Harold Taylor | Executive Director, Regional Tissue Bank of Nova Scotia |
Craig Schmidt | Eye Bank Technician, Eye Bank of Saskatchewan |
Debbie Jefferson | Quality Supervisor, New-Brunswick Organ & Tissue Program – Ocular Division |
Étienne Fissette | Human Tissues Exploitation Director, Héma-Québec |
Guy Simard | Program Manager of ophthalmology, Banque d’yeux du CUO |
Sonia Yeung | Medical Director, Eye Bank of British Columbia |
Marlene Matsuba | Manager, Eye Bank of British Columbia |
Peter Huang | Medical Director, Lions Eye Bank, Calgary |
Jean-Luc Tremblay | Program Manager of ophthalmology, Banque d’yeux du CUO |
Jim Mohr | Acting Associate Director, Deceased Donation Organ and Tissue Donation, CBS |
Kyle Maru | Data Analyst, CBS |
Manon Charest | Chief Assistant Medical Technologist, Banque d’yeux de Québec |
Mike Bentley | Manager, Comprehensive Tissue Centre |
Roberta Fransishyn | Director Acute Care Prog & Eye Bank, Misericordia Eye Bank (MB) |
Guillermo Rocha | Chair, Access to Corneal Transplantation Leading Practice Committee |
Ellen Sokol | Donor coordinator, Eye Bank of Saskatchewan |