Peter J. Kertes, MD CM, FRCSC

Dr. Peter Kertes is the chair and a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences of the University of Toronto and an Associate member in the Institute of Medical Science at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. He is an affiliate scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and served as Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at the John and Liz Tory Eye Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre from 2010 to 2021. He also holds appointments at The Hospital for Sick Children and Kensington Health. Dr. Kertes obtained his MD at McGill University before completing residency at the University of Ottawa and a 2-year vitreo-retinal surgical fellowship at Louisiana State University in New Orleans. He also holds an AB in molecular biology from Princeton University.

A vitreo-retinal surgeon, Dr. Kertes has a special interest in pediatric retinal diseases and in international ophthalmology and has participated in 29 development projects throughout the world. Dr. Kertes’ has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and has been the principal, senior or co-author in nearly 300 peer-reviewed conference proceedings at major ophthalmology meetings at home and abroad. A recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Kertes has supervised more than fifty adult and pediatric vitreo-retinal surgery fellows and participated in the education of more than one hundred ophthalmology residents.