- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
Canada
Mona Harissi-Dagher
Mona Dagher is Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Montreal, Head of the Cornea Service and Director of the Cornea Fellowship program. Dr. Dagher is on staff at Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and is Research Director of Ophthalmology at Centre de Recherche CHUM. She completed her undergraduate degree at McGill University where she received the Hilda Diana Oakley scholarship for ranking top female student at McGill. She then completed her medical degree and specialization in Ophthalmology at Université de Montréal, graduating on the Dean’s honor list. Dr. Dagher then pursued post-doctoral fellowship training in cornea, external eye diseases, and refractive surgery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School. She has brought her expertise on keratoprosthesis surgery to Canada after conducting considerable research and clinical work at Harvard Medical School under the mentorship of Dr. Claes Dohlman. After restoring sight to several Canadian patients through implantation of the Boson Keratoprosthesis, Dr. Dagher was chosen ‘Personality of the Week’ by La Presse and Radio-Canada. She has completed extensive research in the field of Ophthalmology and more particularly, on the Boston Keratoprosthesis and refractive surgery. Dr. Dagher has published numerous articles and is a reviewer for many Ophthalmology journals. She has also authored numerous book chapters on the subject of cornea and external eye diseases and has been a guest lecturer at Ophthalmology conferences internationally. Dr. Dagher is Chair of the annual meeting of the Canadian Ophthalmologic Society (COS), and has served as Board member of COS since 2012.