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.