Ray Buncic

Dr. Ray Buncic, a graduate of McGill University medical faculty (1965), interned at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. After one year pursuing internal medicine, he completed the Ophthalmology program at U of Toronto, and fellowships in Neuro otology (U of T) and in neuro-ophthalmology in San Francisco with professor William F Hoyt. He joined the staff of the Hospital for Sick Children and the Toronto University Health Network (1972) as well as the Holland Bloorview Rehabilitation Hospital and served as a consultant on driving standards  to the Ontario Ministry of Transport for several decades. His special interests have been medical education and clinical research in pediatric neuro-ophthalmology optic nerve diseases, drug toxicity, eye movement disorders, and craniofacial anomalies. Dr. Buncic served as the departmental chair at HSC from 1993 to 2003. He was awarded the British Isles Claud Worth Gold medal (BIPOSA) for a “lifetime distinction in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus”, the professional honour award by AAPOS (1986) and  AAO ( 1998), and the HSC Citizenship award by the medical and scientific staff of HSC.  Most recently he has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada ( 2019) in recognition of his seminal work in pediatric neuro-ophthalmology. His students have included over a hundred Fellows in pediatric ophthalmology alone as well as the ophthalmology residents at the U of Toronto since 1972.

Appointments

Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences, University of Toronto
Hospital for Sick Children