Megumi Iizuka

Dr. Megumi Iizuka has been a member of the staff at St. Joseph’s Health Centre, St. Michael’s Hospital and Unity Health Toronto since 2007 where she has focused on pediatric, strabismus and anterior segment surgery. She also has courtesy staff privileges at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Dr. Megumi Iizuka is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences (DOVS). She completed her Pediatric and Strabismus fellowship at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. She completed residency in Ophthalmology at the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Toronto and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 2007. She previously completed a bachelor’s of Applied Science in Engineering Science and a master’s of Medical Biophysics, both at the University of Toronto. Her research during her master’s involved studying tissue-light interactions for the thermal treatment of cancer with Dr. Michael Sherar and Dr. Alex Vitkin. She completed her medical degree at the University of Calgary before residency.

Dr. Iizuka’s treats a variety of conditions, both young and old for a variety of conditions. Her subspecialty focus is strabismus surgery and cataract surgery. She is also actively involved in training family doctors, medical students, residents and fellows in both medical and surgical areas of ophthalmology at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Toronto. She is currently a co-preceptor of the Neuro-ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus Fellowship with Dr. Edward Margolin. She has been awarded multiple teaching awards by the University of Toronto, St. Joseph’s Health Centre and St. Michael’s Hospital over the years.

Dr. Megumi Iizuka is an active member of the Canadian Ophthalmological Society (COS), the American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS), and the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). She is also a member of the Fellowship organizational committee at the University of Toronto and heads the Resident teaching at St. Michael’s Hospital. She is board certified in Canada and the United States to practice ophthalmology and pediatric ophthalmology.

In her spare time, Dr. Iizuka enjoys volleyball, traveling, bird watching, and spending quality time with family, friends and colleagues.