Dr. David Yan

Dr. David Yan is Ophthalmologist-in-Chief and Medical Advisory Chair at Sinai Health. He is also the Glaucoma Chief of Service in the Department of Ophthalmology at University of Toronto, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine. He specializes in the surgical treatment of glaucoma and complex anterior segment/cataract surgery. Before entering the field of medicine, Dr. Yan studied aerospace engineering at University of Toronto and mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he a finite element model of human aqueous outflow system. He then did his medical degree, ophthalmology residency and subspecialty training at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Yan has served as Chair of the Canadian Glaucoma and Cataract Research Council, a peer-reviewed glaucoma research funding body administered by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, President of the Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and is currently an executive Member of the Canadian Glaucoma Society.

Dr. Yan’s education achievements include founding the Toronto Ophthalmology Residency Introductory Course (TORIC), the first national residency training program in Canada. As TORIC Director, he has trained over 800 residents from across Canada and the West Indies over the past two decades. Dr. Yan is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Clive Mortimer Award for excellence in postgraduate teaching, Golden Suture Award for glaucoma surgery teaching, Silver Needle Award for cataract surgery teaching and the Millenium Award for academic program development. With his passionate commitment to medical education, Dr. Yan has been honoured with 8 teaching awards over a 10-year period, the most of any faculty in the Department of Ophthalmology.