Interim Chief, University Health Network

Dr. Efrem Mandelcorn

Dr. Efrem Mandelcorn is an attending vitreoretinal surgeon at the Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network. He received his medical degree with honours and subsequently completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of Toronto Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He completed 2 surgical fellowships, first at the University of Toronto followed by the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami, Florida. He is an associate professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Ophthalmology and is the Director of the Vitreoretinal Fellowship Program at the Toronto Western Hospital & Sunnybrook sites.

Past Hospital Chiefs:

2001-2022 Dr. Robert Devenyi
1992-2001 Dr. Graham Trope
1987-1992 Dr. Lionel Chisholm
1982-1987 Dr. Clive Mortimer