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[1] [2] As of 2013, LASIK MD performs over sixty percent of all laser vision correction procedures in Canada. [3] LASIK MD was founded in 2001 by Dr. Mark Cohen and Dr. Avi Wallerstein with two initial clinics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As of 2019, there are 34 LASIK MD eye centres located across Canada.
Cohen is the President/CEO of LASIK MD (2001–present) and Cataract MD (2004–present), and co-National Medical Director (2001–present). In 2014, LASIK MD earned Platinum Club status in Canada's Best Managed Companies competition sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC, the National Post and Queen's School of Business. Platinum Club status is awarded ...
Canada, however, showed an increase in LASIK searches by 8%. [38] This decrease in interest can be attributed to several factors: the emergence of refractive cataract surgery , the economic recession in 2008, and unfavorable media coverage from the FDA's 2008 press release on LASIK.
The extra cost of malpractice lawsuits is a proportion of health spending in both the U.S. (1.7% in 2002) [112] and Canada (0.27% in 2001 or $237 million). In Canada the total cost of settlements, legal fees, and insurance comes to $4 per person each year, [113] but in the United States it is over $16.
Machat was one of the first ophthalmologists in North America to perform laser vision correction in 1991 and the first to perform wavefront-guided LASIK in Canada on March 6, 2000. [2] Machat was also the first refractive surgeon to use the Intralase femtosecond laser for flap creation in March 2003. [ 3 ]
In 1991, J.T. Lin, Ph.D. (a Chinese Physicist) was granted a US patent [6] for a new technology using a flying-spot for customized LASIK currently used worldwide. The first US patent using an eye-tracking device to prevent decentration in LASIK procedures was granted to another Chinese Physicist, Dr. S. Lai in 1993.
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