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Edsel B. Ing, MD, FRCSC, and Tom G.E. Ing, MD, FRCSC
PROFILE
Edsel B. lng, MD, FReSe, and Tom G.E. lng, MD, FReSe
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y profiles about "ipsigenerational" ophthalmic relations (i.e., siblings) in the previous two issues of the CIO lead the way to a "transgenerational" approach as I feature in this issue Drs. Tom and Edsel lng, a father and son team of ophthalmologists who live in Windsor, Ont. In practice together for the past 2 years, Tom and Ed are two of only seven very busy ophthalmologists serving a population of over 250 000. Tom was born in Canton, China, in 1935 and as a teenager came to Canada with his family in 1949. He learned English "from a dictionary" and worked in his father's restaurant until the Stratford school superintendent insisted that he be in the classroom instead. Soon thereafter, Tom entered medical school at the University of Western Ontario, London, graduating in 1961 , and completed the ophthalmology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit in 1967 with subspecialty training in neuro-ophthalmology. He returned to Windsor and has engaged in private practice for 33 years. Tom is married to Sandra, an organic chemist. Says Ed of his father, "Dad is too modest to talk about his past, so [the foregoing] is what mom and grandma have told me." Ed finds working with his father an enriching experience, one that has allowed the younger Dr. Ing to appreciate his father in a new light. "Dad can refract anyone I can't, and he takes up slack when I run behind. We operate the office without technicians, doing visual fields in tag-team style. It's stressless going to the operating room knowing that Dad has the office covered." Ever resourceful, Tom wired up an extra examining lane "from scratch" when his son joined him. Tom's main hobby is gardening. "Dad can grow anything, including orchids from seeds using a non-Knudson nutrient medium of his own invention." Born in Windsor in 1964, Edsel is the middle child between two sisters. To say he is qualified to practise ophthalmology is an enormous understatement. After undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario (on scholarship), he completed medical school at the University of Toronto in 1988, graduating with honours. This was followed by a surgical internship and a year of cardiology at Toronto' s Wellesley Hospital. Ed received his FRCSC in ophthalmology in 1994 after residency at the University of Toronto, with receipt of the
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Dr. Tom Ing (right) and Dr. Edsel Ing. father and son ophthalmologists in Windsor, Onto
Alumni Research Award, the Hospital for Sick Children resident award and the Duncan Jamieson academic award. Ed then went on to complete not one or two but three fellowships, in neuro-ophthalmology, oculoplastics and strabismus, at Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh. After completing his training in 1996, Ed held academic appointments at Southern Illinois University, Springfield, and later at the Kresge Eye Institute of Wayne State University, Detroit, before returning to Windsor in 1999. He has lectured at many North American academic centres and for the Osler Institute in Boston, Chicago and St. Louis. ,He is first author on 28 of his 29 papers, has written 7 book chapters and has given dozens of scientific presentations. My personal favourite of Ed's works is his collection of ophthalmic mnemonics (an indispensable book before exams), the majority of which are his original concoctions (with one or two of my own thrown in, I might immodestly add). Ed is one of a relatively small subgroup of physicians who have lived and practised in both Canada and the United States, and he notes stark contrasts in life and work between the two countries. "Small-town Illinois
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POSITIONS AVAILABLE For a fully qualified or eligible ophthalmologist with vitreoretinal training, other subspecialty training and general training in the department of ophthalmology of a large multispecialty clinic. Interested applicants can reply to: Dr. M.B. Ekins, Head Department of Ophthalmology Winnipeg Clinic 425 St. Mary Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C ON2
Telephone: (204) 957-3251 Fax: (204) 942-0677
was great. I got a signing bonus from the hospital and as much OR time as I wanted" (not the sort of thing we hear in Canada). His subsequent practice in downtown Detroit was "a good academic job," but the violent inner-city environment and concern for his children persuaded him to move back to "a kinder, gentler practice in my hometown." Ed adds, "It's been fun being back in Canada save for the jostling for OR time, low ORIP fees and higher taxes." (This is the price of living in paradise!) "Windsor is a relatively large city with few physicians, so the patients are 'unfiltered' and quite interesting." Fortunately, with triple-fellowship training, Ed can probably handle just about anything that comes into his office. His fluency in Cantonese helps as well. Ed has been married to Helen, a dentist, for 11 years. He describes himself as "very much a homebody" who is "happiest when spending time with my children, Mercedes, age 5, Royce, age 2, and the newly arrived Maximillian." When time permits, Ed enjoys simple carpentry and dabbling with the Internet. Readers of the CIa will see more of Ed in subsequent issues, for it is my pleasure to announce that he will be taking over the Profiles section of the Journal beginning with the February 200 1 issue.
Advertisers' Indexl Liste des annonceurs ALCON CANADA INC. AcrySof ........................................ iv Corporate .................................... IFC ALLERGAN Alphagan ............... . ................ 431, OBC BAUSCH & LOMB Contact lens solution ............................. vi CANADIAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY .......... vii CHRISTIAN BLIND MISSION INTERNATIONAL .......... viii CIBA VISION CANADA INC. Minims ......................................... x Visudyne ................. '. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. v, 423 INNOVA MEDICAL OPHTHALMICS ..... . ....... xiv LASTICIAN OPHTHALMICS, INC. Capsule stain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . ... xiii MERCK FROSST CANADA & CO. Cosopt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 424, 425, IBC Timoptic-XE ............ . .......... . .... ix, 432, 433
W. Michael Myles, MD, FRCSe Ottawa, ant.
Addendum As the outgoing Profile writer, I would like to thank CIa Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ian MacDonald and Managing Editor Gloria Baker for the assistance and humour rendered me these past years. I would also like to thank former editor-in-chief Dr. Brent MacInnis for inviting me in late 1994 to initiate Profiles. Through this work I have had the privilege of becoming acquainted with 39 outstanding colleagues across Canada whose academic, clinical and extracurricular achievements are humbling to a regular guy like me. And I look forward to discovering hitherto unknown facts about more of our Canadian colleagues as Dr. Edsel Ing embarks on his new task as the Profile writer for our illustrious Journal. <1J'-
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Edsel B. lng, MD, FReSe, and Tom G.E. lng, MD, FReSe
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y profiles about "ipsigenerational" ophthalmic relations (i.e., siblings) in the previous two issues of the CIO lead the way to a "transgenerational" approach as I feature in this issue Drs. Tom and Edsel lng, a father and son team of ophthalmologists who live in Windsor, Ont. In practice together for the past 2 years, Tom and Ed are two of only seven very busy ophthalmologists serving a population of over 250 000. Tom was born in Canton, China, in 1935 and as a teenager came to Canada with his family in 1949. He learned English "from a dictionary" and worked in his father's restaurant until the Stratford school superintendent insisted that he be in the classroom instead. Soon thereafter, Tom entered medical school at the University of Western Ontario, London, graduating in 1961 , and completed the ophthalmology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit in 1967 with subspecialty training in neuro-ophthalmology. He returned to Windsor and has engaged in private practice for 33 years. Tom is married to Sandra, an organic chemist. Says Ed of his father, "Dad is too modest to talk about his past, so [the foregoing] is what mom and grandma have told me." Ed finds working with his father an enriching experience, one that has allowed the younger Dr. Ing to appreciate his father in a new light. "Dad can refract anyone I can't, and he takes up slack when I run behind. We operate the office without technicians, doing visual fields in tag-team style. It's stressless going to the operating room knowing that Dad has the office covered." Ever resourceful, Tom wired up an extra examining lane "from scratch" when his son joined him. Tom's main hobby is gardening. "Dad can grow anything, including orchids from seeds using a non-Knudson nutrient medium of his own invention." Born in Windsor in 1964, Edsel is the middle child between two sisters. To say he is qualified to practise ophthalmology is an enormous understatement. After undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario (on scholarship), he completed medical school at the University of Toronto in 1988, graduating with honours. This was followed by a surgical internship and a year of cardiology at Toronto' s Wellesley Hospital. Ed received his FRCSC in ophthalmology in 1994 after residency at the University of Toronto, with receipt of the
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Dr. Tom Ing (right) and Dr. Edsel Ing. father and son ophthalmologists in Windsor, Onto
Alumni Research Award, the Hospital for Sick Children resident award and the Duncan Jamieson academic award. Ed then went on to complete not one or two but three fellowships, in neuro-ophthalmology, oculoplastics and strabismus, at Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh. After completing his training in 1996, Ed held academic appointments at Southern Illinois University, Springfield, and later at the Kresge Eye Institute of Wayne State University, Detroit, before returning to Windsor in 1999. He has lectured at many North American academic centres and for the Osler Institute in Boston, Chicago and St. Louis. ,He is first author on 28 of his 29 papers, has written 7 book chapters and has given dozens of scientific presentations. My personal favourite of Ed's works is his collection of ophthalmic mnemonics (an indispensable book before exams), the majority of which are his original concoctions (with one or two of my own thrown in, I might immodestly add). Ed is one of a relatively small subgroup of physicians who have lived and practised in both Canada and the United States, and he notes stark contrasts in life and work between the two countries. "Small-town Illinois
Continued on p. 435
Profile continued from p. 436
POSITIONS AVAILABLE For a fully qualified or eligible ophthalmologist with vitreoretinal training, other subspecialty training and general training in the department of ophthalmology of a large multispecialty clinic. Interested applicants can reply to: Dr. M.B. Ekins, Head Department of Ophthalmology Winnipeg Clinic 425 St. Mary Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C ON2
Telephone: (204) 957-3251 Fax: (204) 942-0677
was great. I got a signing bonus from the hospital and as much OR time as I wanted" (not the sort of thing we hear in Canada). His subsequent practice in downtown Detroit was "a good academic job," but the violent inner-city environment and concern for his children persuaded him to move back to "a kinder, gentler practice in my hometown." Ed adds, "It's been fun being back in Canada save for the jostling for OR time, low ORIP fees and higher taxes." (This is the price of living in paradise!) "Windsor is a relatively large city with few physicians, so the patients are 'unfiltered' and quite interesting." Fortunately, with triple-fellowship training, Ed can probably handle just about anything that comes into his office. His fluency in Cantonese helps as well. Ed has been married to Helen, a dentist, for 11 years. He describes himself as "very much a homebody" who is "happiest when spending time with my children, Mercedes, age 5, Royce, age 2, and the newly arrived Maximillian." When time permits, Ed enjoys simple carpentry and dabbling with the Internet. Readers of the CIa will see more of Ed in subsequent issues, for it is my pleasure to announce that he will be taking over the Profiles section of the Journal beginning with the February 200 1 issue.
Advertisers' Indexl Liste des annonceurs ALCON CANADA INC. AcrySof ........................................ iv Corporate .................................... IFC ALLERGAN Alphagan ............... . ................ 431, OBC BAUSCH & LOMB Contact lens solution ............................. vi CANADIAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY .......... vii CHRISTIAN BLIND MISSION INTERNATIONAL .......... viii CIBA VISION CANADA INC. Minims ......................................... x Visudyne ................. '. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. v, 423 INNOVA MEDICAL OPHTHALMICS ..... . ....... xiv LASTICIAN OPHTHALMICS, INC. Capsule stain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . ... xiii MERCK FROSST CANADA & CO. Cosopt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 424, 425, IBC Timoptic-XE ............ . .......... . .... ix, 432, 433
W. Michael Myles, MD, FRCSe Ottawa, ant.
Addendum As the outgoing Profile writer, I would like to thank CIa Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ian MacDonald and Managing Editor Gloria Baker for the assistance and humour rendered me these past years. I would also like to thank former editor-in-chief Dr. Brent MacInnis for inviting me in late 1994 to initiate Profiles. Through this work I have had the privilege of becoming acquainted with 39 outstanding colleagues across Canada whose academic, clinical and extracurricular achievements are humbling to a regular guy like me. And I look forward to discovering hitherto unknown facts about more of our Canadian colleagues as Dr. Edsel Ing embarks on his new task as the Profile writer for our illustrious Journal. <1J'-
OCULO-PLASTIK, INC. Ocular implants .................... . ............ xii PHARMACIA & UPJOHN Viscoelastic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. xi Xalatan .........................•.... . ..... 362, 426 TOPCON CANADA INC •......................... ii
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