Iqbal Ike K. Ahmed MD, FRCSC

Dr. Iqbal Ike K. Ahmed is widely regarded as one of the foremost leaders in ophthalmology and healthcare innovation globally, including being recognized as the No. 1 most influential ophthalmologist in the world on the Ophthalmology Power List by the news magazine The Ophthalmologist. He is an active clinician-scientist with dual practices in Canada and the United States, renowned for his skills in the management of highly complex eye diseases — particularly glaucoma and advanced anterior segment surgery.

His career has been distinguished by numerous honors. In 2025, he was bestowed the King Charles III Coronation Medal in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to medicine. He was selected as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 and became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Binkhorst Medal at ASCRS — awarded to the world’s most prominent ophthalmologists for landmark contributions to the science and practice of the field. The American Glaucoma Society has honored him twice: with the AGS Surgery Day Lecture and, in 2025, the Innovator Award. He was named Innovator of the Year by the Eye Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario in 2017 and received the Pearce Medal Lecture from the UKISCRS in 2015. At the University of Utah, he holds the John R. and Hazel M. Robertson Presidential Endowed Chair.

He is the director of the Glaucoma and Advanced Anterior Segment Surgery (GAASS) fellowship at the University of Toronto — one of the premier ophthalmology fellowships in the world — which has trained over 50 glaucoma and anterior segment surgeons now practicing globally. Dr. Ahmed is known to be a passionate educator, with membership in numerous international societies, and has founded and directed a wide range of meetings and courses. He sits on the editorial boards of leading journals, including Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology-Glaucoma, Journal of Glaucoma, and the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, and has served as chief medical editor of Glaucoma Today since 2018.

Dr. Ahmed holds board certification in ophthalmology in both Canada and the United States. He maintains a large tertiary glaucoma and cataract practice at Prism Eye Institute and Trillium Health Partners in the Greater Toronto Area, and sees patients and operates at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Patients are referred to him locally, nationally, and from around the world, and he has been invited to perform surgery across four continents.