Thursday April 17, 2025

Job Summary

The Waterloo Regional Eye program is recruiting a full-time ophthalmologist with cornea subspecialty training to the Department of Surgery at Saint Mary’s General Hospital to provide the highest quality medical and surgical care to patients in our community. The successful candidate will have regular surgical time at the hospital and at our off-site surgical centre, minor procedure room time, laser clinic time, and access to hospital-based diagnostics.

Saint Mary’s General Hospital is a 153-bed adult acute-care facility and the regional centre for ophthalmology subspecialty care with a full complement of subspecialty surgical services including glaucoma, oculoplastics, retina, and cornea. The hospital has a fully equipped laser clinic (SLT, YAG, Pascal photocoagulation with indirect) and diagnostics including wide field imaging, B Scan ultrasound and IVFA. Ophthalmological consultation services are also provided at Grand River Hospital, a 567-bed facility that services the Waterloo Region. The successful applicant will join our team of 10 ophthalmologists in Kitchener-Waterloo and will provide regional consultation and on-call services alongside the 16 other ophthalmologists in the Waterloo Wellington Region. The applicant is expected to provide medical and surgical cornea care for patients in our community.