Marc Mullie

Dr Marc Mullie was born in Arborfield, Saskatchewan and obtained his MD degree at the University of Toronto in 1978. He then pursued his surgical training in Ophthalmology at McGill University and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1983. He spent two years as an R.S.Mcglauchin fellow in Neuro-ophthalmology, the first in 1984 at Queen Square Hospital in London England under Dr.Michael Sanders and the second in 1985 at UC San Francisco under Dr. Bill Hoyt.
Upon his return to Montreal Dr. Mullie joined the Neuroophthalmology Clinics of the Royal Victoria Hospital (McGill), Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital (U. of Montreal) and Saint-Luc Hospital. In these institutions he taught and trained hundreds of medical students, residents and staff. He was an attending ophthalmic surgeon in all 3 hospitals. He attained the rank of Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at McGill University and Charge de Formation Clinique at U of M.
In 1987 Dr. Mullie introduced the new concept of phacoemulsification for cataract surgery and was a pioneer in Montreal in developing this technique and teaching it to residents and staff. He gave multiple lectures at many meetings all over North America on this innovative surgery.
In 1992 once again he was a pioneer in developing corneal refractive surgery with the Excimer Laser and was part of the first clinical group in Quebec performing Photorefractive Keratectomy at Notre Dame Hospital of the University of Montreal.
In 1993, he co-founded Clinique Laservue, a premier laser refractive surgery clinic in Montreal. There, after observing the pioneering work of Luis Ruiz in Bogota, Columbia, he and his partner Dr. Gordon Balazsi introduced the use of Lasik surgery, scanning laser surgery, and Wavefront Custom surgery, and rapidly became known as international authorities in refractive surgery. In 1994, they were part of the initial group of 20 international surgeons selected to standardize the teaching of Lasik to their colleagues. Since Lasik was a novel technique at the time, the manufacturer of Lasik technology agreed to sell the equipment only to surgeons who had completed a training course by one of this original group of ‘trainers’.
Also in 1994, they co-founded the Institut de Chirurgie Oculaire de Montréal, the first entirely private cataract surgery clinic in Canada offering state-of-the-art lens implant surgery.
More recently, he and Dr. Gordon Balazsi have developed MicroLasik, a method of creating thin Lasik flaps with greater precision than a Laser keratome (‘all-laser-lasik’), and the ‘TopoZero’ method of laser treatment with the world-leading Zeiss excimer laser. This technology has given the gift of 20/20 vision in over 99.7% of their patients.
Dr. Mullie has been a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, the College des Medecins du Québec, Canadian Ophthalmological Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and was a founding member of the Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He has also served on the editorial staff of the International Society of Refractive Surgery.
Over the years Dr. Mullie has presented over 125 scientific papers at ophthalmology meetings all over the world and has lectured at hundreds of courses and seminars. He has been an invited lecturer at several meetings including the American Academy and the German Ophthalmic Surgeons Meeting. He has been a reviewer for both the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the Journal of Refractive Surgery.

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