Delan Jinapriya

Delan Jinapriya is an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, Director of the Queen’s Glaucoma Fellowship Program, the Medical Director of the Galen Eye Centre, and the Medical Director of Euclid Telehealth. He is an Executive Member of the Canadian Glaucoma Society, the past Chair of the Canadian Ophthalmological Society Skills Transfer Courses, a reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology and the Journal of Glaucoma, and a grant reviewer for the Canadian Glaucoma Research Council and the Canadian Institute of Health Research.

Dr. Jinapriya became a physician to make a daily contribution to the betterment of people’s lives. After becoming an ophthalmologist he made it his mission to reduce preventable vision loss. He has been trying to achieve this through providing a large volume of clinical care, being an educator of future ophthalmologists, glaucoma specialists, and non-ophthalmology healthcare workers, and by finding ways to improve the systems and processes of ophthalmic healthcare delivery to serve more people and save more vision. He serves as an advisor to Ontario Health’s Health Technology Assessment program, which helps determine the value of new technologies for funding from Ontario’s Provincial Health Plan. He has been an invited speaker and presenter at many International and National conferences and continuing medical education symposia.