Dr. Mohan Merchea --
Personal Info
Dr. Mohan
Merchea graduated from G.R. Medical College, Gwalior, India in 1964. He was a
commissioned officer in Indian Army Medical Corps of for more than ten years and
as an Ophthalmologist for more than six years, before immigrating to Canada in
1974.
He did his
residency training in Ophthalmology from 1974 to 1979 at the University of
Western Ontario. He is a Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and a Diplomat
of American Board of Ophthalmology. He has been in private practice since
January 1980 in London, Ontario, Canada. He is at present Assistant Professor
in Ophthalmology at the University of Western Ontario, where he runs Refraction
and Contact Lens Clinics. He is actively involved in teaching refractive
surgery to residents in Ophthalmology, at the University of Western Ontario.
His special interest is Anterior Segment diseases, Small incision
Phacoemulsification Cataract Surgery, Refractive Surgery, Glaucoma Surgery and
Strabismus Surgery. He has an extensive contact lens practice and specializes
in all kinds of lenses including bifocal contact lenses.
Dr. Merchea is an active participant in
outreach projects in Ontario, establishing an outpatient eye clinic at
Strathroy-Middlesex General Hospital, and also in India, where he spends a few
weeks a year training ophthalmologists in the newer techniques of cataract
surgery and lens implantation, and performing surgery on low-income patients.
He has had extensive
training in Refractive Surgery at various centers in North America. He has
performed PRK, Lasik and PTK surgery for myopia, astigmatism and hyperopia. He
has trained a number of Ophthalmologists in laser surgery in Canada, US, India
and Europe.
He has himself performed in excess of 10,000 Lasik
procedures and has performed custom ablation on dissatisfied
patients/complicated cases with excellent results.
He has
experience in using Nidek EC-5000, Meditek MEL-70 Laser, Visx Smoothscan Laser,
Lasersight LSX and Chiron Technolas Lasers. He is a certified Nidek Excimer
Laser Physician Trainer. He has been performing custom ablation on complicated
cases with MEL-70 at Icon Laser Center in Windsor, Ontario.
He has
presented numerous papers on Refractive Surgery at various international
meetings on the use of various Lasers and microkeratomes. He is at present
involved in various research projects on refractive surgery.
He is Associate Medical
Director of ICON Laser Center in London, Ontario, Canada. He also runs an
Excimer Laser Center in Chandigarh, India.
