Fouad tayfour biography for kids
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Dr. Tayfour MD, FRCSC
Dr. Tayfour graduated from Damascus University Medical School in 1979 and spent three years in postgraduate training there. He arrived in Canada in 1983 where he joined the University of Toronto Ophthalmology schema and finished his training in 1987. The following year he completed his retina and vitreous fellowship at the University of Toronto and later received his fellowship from the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada.
In 1988 he started his private practice in Windsor and within three years he was able to build the largest cataract practice in Canada.
Dr. Tayfour was the first ophthalmologist to bring retina surgery to Windsor and in 1991 he became the first surgeon in Canada to perform cataract surgery under topical anesthesia and the same year he introduced klar corneal incision cataract surgery to Canada.
Dr. Tayfour was a very early adapter of laser refractive surgery when he performed his first PRK cases in 1991 and he was t
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Entrepreneur: Eye surgeon has instinct for business success
He is a doctor first, but Fouad Tayfour’s entrepreneurial instincts have made him one of Windsor’s most financially successful physicians.
Published Jan 23, 2014 • 5 minute read
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He is a doctor first, but Fouad Tayfour’s entrepreneurial instincts have made him one of Windsor’s most financially successful physicians.
An eye surgeon who was among the first in North America to use lasers, he operates three private clinics. The main one in Windsor is part of a large office and commercial complex at Walker and Tecumseh roads of which he is the majority owner.
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Dr. Tayfour graduated from Damascus University Medical School in 1979 and spent three years in postgraduate training there. He arrived in Canada in 1983 where he joined the University of Toronto Ophthalmology program and finished his training in 1987. The following year he completed his retina and vitreous fellowship at the University of Toronto and later received his fellowship from the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada.
In 1988 he started his private practice in Windsor and within three years he was able to build the largest cataract practice in Canada.
Dr. Tayfour was the first ophthalmologist to bring retina surgery to Windsor and in 1991 he became the first surgeon in Canada to perform cataract surgery beneath topical anesthesia and the same year he introduced clear corneal incision cataract surgery to Canada.
Dr. Tayfour was a very early adapter of laser refractive surgery when he performed his first PRK cases in 1991 and he was the firs