Our Doctors

Nick Nianiaris - M.D., Medical Director

TRAINING: Dr. Nianiaris received his medical degree in 1988 from the University of Toronto. His Ophthalmology residency training followed at the University of Toronto. He continued training and completed a Fellowship in Ophthalmic Research (including excimer laser studies) at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He is Ophthalmology certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He has trained and practiced extensively in laser refractive procedures with some of the worlds foremost authorities in refractive surgery. Dr. Nianiaris is also an expert in small incision cataract surgery.

LASER EXPERIENCE: TLC affiliated surgeons have performed more than 600,000 LASIK procedures. Dr. Nianiaris has personally performed over 20,000 laser procedures. Several thousand of these were PRK procedures followed by many more thousands of LASIK procedures, most commonly performed today. As a leading authority in laser vision procedures, Dr. Nianiaris has corrected the vision of eye doctors and surgeons, pilots, professional athletes, police and firefighting recruits and patients from all vocations and backgrounds. He has lectured to hundreds of eye care professionals and continues to train other ophthalmic surgeons in refractive surgery techniques. People come from around the world to have surgery performed by Dr. Nianiaris. He attends international meetings and is involved in many refractive surgery studies.

Dr. Nianiaris has experience with, and continues to use, some of the most advanced lasers in the world. These include the VISX, Bausch & Lomb Technolas, Lasersight, WaveLight Allegretto and Autonomous LADARvision lasers. He has been doing custom, abberometry and wavefront driven refractive surgery long before the majority of North American refractive surgeons. He currently is one of a handful of surgeons around the world certified to use the INTRALASE femtosecond laser to make Lasik flaps.

MEMBERSHIPS: Dr. Nianiaris has been a member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons, the Canadian Ophthalmologic Society, College of Physician and Surgeons of Ontario, the Ontario Medical Association and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

APPOINTMENTS: Dr. Nianiaris has been a Medical Director of TLC Toronto since 1994. He is Chair of the Ethics Review Board of TLC Toronto and is a member of the TLC Toronto Advisory Board. He is also a Clinical Instructor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Nianiaris is the former Chief of Ophthalmology at Toronto East General Hospital where he sits on several committees and performs his cataract surgeries.

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Rhonda Kerzner, O.D., Clinical Director

Dr Rhonda Kerzner graduated Optometry School at the University of Waterloo in 1993. She has been working at TLC Toronto since 1995 and has cared for over twenty thousand patients through the laser vision correction process. She has trained many doctors in the area of pre and post LASIK and PRK care, including how to evaluate candidacy for the procedures and what to look for during recovery.