Raymond Stein

Raymond Mark Stein, MD, FRCSC, DABO, is a Canadian ophthalmologist. He practices refractive and cataract surgery. He is the medical director of the Bochner Eye Institute in Toronto, Ontario and Chief of Ophthalmology at the Scarborough Hospital.

Education

Stein received his BA after attending Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and McMaster University and was eventually designated a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He then received his M.D. degree in 1982 from the University of Toronto Medical School, which was followed by ophthalmology residency at Mayo Clinic and fellowship training in cornea and external diseases at Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University. Stein was a member of the United States’ National Board of Medical Examiners, a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology (DABO) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC).

Career

Stein's primary work has been in laser vision correction, including the techniques of photorefractive keratectomy and LASIK. He has also done extensive research in corneal crosslinking for keratoconus, a procedure he introduced into Canada in 2008.

Stein is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at University of Toronto and Medical Director of the Bochner Eye Institute in Toronto, Canada. He was trained by the inventor of the excimer laser, Dr Steven Trokel, in 1991 and has performed more than 100,000 vision-correction procedures.

He was chosen to serve as the chief eye surgeon for the W Network’s television show Style By Jury, and has performed surgery on over 25 episodes. He has also appeared as a guest on the Marilyn Denis Show talking about laser eye surgery. He was described in a profile in Post City Magazines as "one of Canada’s top eye surgeons".

In addition to serving as the medical director of Bochner Eye Institute, Stein is the chief of ophthalmology at the Scarborough Hospital in Toronto, as well as the cornea consultant at the Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. Stein's philanthropic activities include serving on the board of directors of the Foundation of Fighting Blindness and involvement in raising funds for Comic Vision for degenerative eye diseases.

Awards

Stein received the Honor award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology for contributions to education of other eye surgeons. He was elected as a member of the International Intraocular Implant Club and given an honor award from the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists. He has also received numerous international awards from Joint Commission in Allied Health Ophthalmology, International Society of Refractive Surgery and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Society. Among his local and national awards are distinctions from Foundation Fighting Blindness and Mount Sinai Hospital. Stein served as the President of the Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.

Published research

• Stein RM: Bitoric Ablation for Mixed Astigmatism, Review of Refractive Surgery, 2002:2, 43- 47.
• Stein R: The AllegrettoWave Excimer Laser: The Next Generation in Technology, Supplement to Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today, July 2003.
• Stein R. Treating Mixed Astigmatism with the VISX Star S2. Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists 2000; January: 14 – 18.
• Stein R. Ten pearls for treating hyperopic astigmatism. Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists 2000; December:29 – 32.
• Stein RM. Experience with Moria M2 Microkeratome. Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists. 2001;Supplement 5(12):13.
• Stein R: Reducing LASIK Complications, Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists, 2001:5(7):5.
• Stein H, Stein R: Presbyopia: Challenging the Advances of Age, Highlights of Ophthalmology, 2002: 30(5):1-5.
• Stein R: Six Steps to Better Astigmatism Ablations, Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists, December 2002.
• Stein RM: Patients to Avoid: Personality Screening for Refractive Surgery. Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists. 2002;6(1):1, 36-38.
• Stein R: Clinical Experience with the Allegretto Wave in Custom and Standard Treatments, Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists, 1: 23-29, January 2004.
• Stein R: Techniques of Advanced Surface Ablation, Refractive Eyecare for Ophthalmologists, 8:1-29, October 2004.
• Stein R: Advances in Refractive Surgery, Ophthalmology Rounds, University of Toronto, Snell Publishing, November 2004.
• Stein R: Phototherapeutic Keratectomy, Clinical Signs in Ophthalmology, 1998:18:3-27.
• Stein R. Keratome-assisted advanced surface ablation – new procedure discovered by serendipity (Editorial). Clinical & Surgical Journal of Ophthalmology 2005; 23(10): 352.

Books

Stein has published more than 100 articles, abstracts, and reports in professional journals and has delivered more than 300 lectures at international conferences. He also serves as the Canadian editor of the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Clinical and Surgical Ophthalmology.

• Management of Ocular Emergencies, 5th edition, Stein R, Stein H, Medicopea Publishers, 2011.
• Ophthalmic Terminology, 4th edition, Stein H, Stein R, Freeman M, Jaypee Brothers Publishers, 2011.
• Laser Vision Correction - A new Age, 2nd edition, Stein R, Stein H, Cheskes A, Ethis Publishing, 2009.
• The Ophthalmic Assistant, 8th Edition, Stein H, Stein R, Freeman M: C. V. Mosby Company, 2007.
• Residents Contact Lens Curriculum Manual, 2nd Edition, Stein H, Freeman M, Stein, R, Maund L, CLAO 2000.
• The Excimer, 2nd Edition, Stein H, Cheskes A, Stein R: Slack Publishing, 1997.
• CLAO Residents Contact Lens Curriculum Manual, Stein H, Freeman M, Stein R, Kellner/McCaffery Publishers 1996.
• Primer in Ophthalmology, Stein H, Stein R, Slatt B: C. V. Mosby Company, 1992.
• Fitting Guide for Contact Lenses, Stein H, Slatt B, Stein R, C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1990.
• Photorefractive Keratectomy, Stein R, Laser Surgery of the Eye, Highlights of Ophthalmology, Panama Rep. of Panama, 2005.
• Photorefractive Keratectomy, Stein R, In Boyd S: Laser Surgery of the Eye, Highlights of Ophthalmology, 2004.
• Refractive Surgery, Stein R, In Milder B, Rubin M: The Fine Art of Prescribing Glasses, 3rd Edition, Triad, 2004.
• Bitoric Ablation for Mixed Astigmatism, Stein R, In Buratto L: LASIK, Italy, Slack, 2002.
• Photorefractive Keratectomy, Stein R, In Spaeth G: Ocular Surgery, Brightbill, New York, 2002.
• Photorefractive Keratectomy, Stein R, in Refractive Surgery, International Ophthalmic Clinics, Summer 2000.