Category Archives: Covid-19 Resources

What Now? Optimizing our new normal
Feb 14th, 2022

A Path to a New Vision: What now? Optimizing Our New Normal The fifth and final webinar in the series aired on May 28, 2020.Our moderator Dr. Guillermo Rocha was joined on this week’s webinar by Prof Tien Wong, Medical Director of the Singapore National Eye Center, and A/Prof Heather Mack, President of The Royal […]

Financial Implications of COVID – Beyond the Basics
Feb 14th, 2022

A Path to a New Vision : Financial Implications of COVID – Beyond the Basics The fourth webinar in the series, Financial Implications of COVID – Beyond the Basics aired on May 14, 2020.  Moderated by Dr. Guillermo Rocha, this webinar hosted invited guests Julie Petrera, National Lead, Financial Planning Content, and Jennie Ho, Senior […]

Virtual Care – COVID and Beyond
Feb 14th, 2022

A Path to a New Vision: Virtual Care – COVID and Beyond The third webinar in the series, Virtual Care – COVID and Beyond aired on May 7, 2020. Moderated by Dr. Guillermo Rocha, this webinar hosted invited guest Dr. Dawn Sim, Associate Professor at University College London and Director of Telemedicine at the Moorfields […]

A Path to a New Vision: Our Starting Point
Feb 14th, 2022

WEBINAR RECORDING – A Path to a New Vision: Our Starting Point The first webinar in the series, Our Starting Point aired on April 24, 2020. Moderated by Dr. Guillermo Rocha, this webinar reviewed the COVID-19 situation and the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) needed to safely practice ophthalmology. The invited guest speaker was James […]

Canadian Psychological Association Covid 19 Fact Sheets
Oct 13th, 2021

The Canadian Psychological Association has produced a series of Fact Sheets in response to the coronavirus pandemic. English and French links are below.

CMA: Pandemic Wellness Toolkit
Oct 7th, 2021

As the health crisis driven by COVID-19 continues, many health care workers are having to cope with an increase or exacerbation of anxiety, burnout or other challenges related to increasingly difficult work conditions. We’re encouraging physicians to check in on their own health and the CMA has created a Pandemic Wellness Toolkit to help them get started. The toolkit has […]

Data Reporting In Ophthalmology during COVID-19 pandemic: Need for a Canadian Registry
Aug 13th, 2021

June 2021 Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre – including this research content – immediately available in PubMed Central and other […]

Reports of Myocarditis/pericarditis after COVID-19 vaccination
Jun 8th, 2021

June 3, 2021 Communiqué to health practitioners Reports of Myocarditis/pericarditis afterCOVID-19 vaccination. Given the international reports and attention relating to myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the Public Health Agency of Canada has prepared this communiqué that can be shared with your health practitioner networks or that can be used to inform […]

Evidence-Informed Approaches to Teleglaucoma in Canada
Apr 14th, 2021

April 2021 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report provides a review of evidence-informed approaches to teleglaucoma (TG) care in Canadian contexts as of January 2021. TG is defined as a spectrum of options that adapts telemedicine approaches to enhance care for glaucoma patients (those diagnosed with as well as at risk for developing glaucoma). The objective of […]