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Ophthalmology

Services
Team
Resources

Services

The Montreal Children’s Hospital provides care to children with both common and rare eye conditions. Our services include targeted treatment options and surgical interventions.

We are equipped to handle a wide range of eye conditions including cataracts, corneal and anterior segment disorders, red eyes, low vision, and blindness. Other conditions we treat include:

Strabismus, nystagmus and amblyopia
Eye traumas
Ocular and orbital conditions (requiring plastic surgery)
Neuro-ophthalmological conditions including optic nerve and brain disorders
Retinal degenerations (retinitis pigmentosa, leber congenital amaurosis, cone and cone-rod dystrophies)
Night blindness
Uveitis

We also care for diabetic, sickle cell, rheumatology, seizure and hemoglobinopathy patients.

We offer an interdisciplinary program for retinoblastoma and glaucoma in conjunction with CHU Sainte-Justine.

Team

Staff

Marcele Falcão
MD, PhD

Conrad Kavalec
MD

Robert Koenekoop
MD, PhD, Chief of Pediatric Ophthalmology

Daniela Toffoli
MD

Patrick Hamel
MD

Christian El-Hadad
MD

Dr Stéphanie Côté
Ophthalmologist

Orthoptists

Gaëla Cariou-Panier

Mona Hijazi

Stephanie Oglietti

Linda Blanchard
RN

Goreth Xethalis
Ophthalmic technician

Connie Pham
Certified Ophthalmic Technician, Clinical and Research

Glenda Vargas
Certified Ophthalmic Technician, Clinical and Research

Nursing

Kim Paquin
RNA

Melanie Bélanger
RNA

Resources

The Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre

Offers individualized rehabilitation services to children with visual impairment and other conditions.

L’Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille (INLB)

The only rehabilitation centre in Quebec that specializes solely in visual impairment (site in French only).

Fighting Blindness Canada

A resource for individuals and families impacted by blindness, which offers accurate eye health information, educational events, advocacy initiatives and more.

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