Edsel Ing MD PhD FRCSC MPH CPH MIAD

Biography

Dr. Ing completed his medical school and ophthalmology residency at the University of Toronto, a Masters of Public Health and Global Scholars research program at Harvard, a certificate in medical education at Johns Hopkins, a Masters of Political Science through the United Nations Institute for Training & Research, and a PhD on diagnostic prediction models at Kingston University. In addition, he finished 3 additional years of advanced ophthalmology fellowship training at the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, the Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, and the Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Ing is a full professor of ophthalmology at the University of Toronto, and specializes in oculoplastics, strabismus and surgical neuro-ophthalmology at Michael Garron Hospital. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and a certificant of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is a section editor for the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, Medscape Ophthalmology and the Canadian Journal of Diagnosis. He is a member of the Canadian, American and European Societies of Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the International Strabismological Association and the Canadian Pediatric Ophthalmology Society and the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society, and the Canadian and American ophthalmology societies. He has written more than 100 clinical papers / book chapters, and delivered more than 100 lectures. In 2015 he received the provincial PARO teaching award, and in 2020 the University of Toronto W. T. Aikins teaching award. His surgical specializations include eyelid surgery, eyelid tumours, orbital surgery and tumours, Graves ophthalmopathy (thyroid-associated orbitopathy), eye muscle realignment surgery (strabismus), Bells palsy and botox injections for blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm.

Quote from the Winner

M.K. Atatürk opined, "A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." In contrast, my learners have allowed me to shine ever brighter and longer because they have illuminated the path for me and my patients.

About the Award

These awards are named after William Thomas Aikins, the first Dean of the Faculty of Medicine after its reorganization in1887. They are the Faculty’s most prestigious awards in the MD Program. They were established to recognize and formally reward outstanding teachers in the areas of Individual Teaching Performance (Foundations and Clerkship), Development and Use of Educational Innovations, and Course / Program Development and Coordination. Recipients of these awards have significantly contributed to high-quality undergraduate teaching by establishing and integrating new and effective methods of instruction into the curriculum.