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Dr Ron Stasiuk

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Dr Ron Stasiuk

MBBS FRACS FRANZCO
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General eye health

Cataract & lens surgery

Corneal conditions

About Dr Ron Stasiuk

Dr Ron Stasiuk has international experience in cataract, corneal, refractive and excimer laser surgery. He consults in general ophthalmology, emergency cases, postoperative reviews and second opinions (especially concerning corneal, cataract and refractive surgery, given his experience in these areas). Dr Stasiuk performs YAG laser treatment for cataracts and glaucoma but has retired from microsurgery procedures. He is accredited as an Aviation Ophthalmologist with CASA to examine pilots and Australian Defence Force personnel.

Dr Stasiuk studied medicine at Monash University before completing specialist training in ophthalmology at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) in Melbourne and postgraduate work with Professor Richard Lindstrom in Minneapolis, USA.

Dr Stasiuk was one of the first ophthalmologists in Australia to perform LASIK (1996) and multifocal lens implants (1991). He has lectured extensively both in Australia and overseas and is the author of several book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and letters. Dr Stasiuk is also currently involved with teaching medical and optometry students.

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Career highlights

Career firsts
  • First ophthalmologist in Australia to implant the 3M diffractive multifocal implant (1990) and the AMO Array multifocal lens implant (1997)
  • One of the first surgeons in Australia to perform excimer laser surgery (1991)
  • One of the first surgeons to perform LASIK in Victoria (1996)
Teaching
  • Teaches medical and optometry students
  • Lectured extensively in Australia and overseas
  • Invited international lecturer touring India, Thailand and Singapore (2001)
  • Associate ophthalmologist at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne (1996–1999)
Other professional achievements
  • Currently accredited as an Aviation ophthalmologist with CASA to examine pilots and Australian Defence Force personnel
  • Current peer reviewer for the Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine
  • Foundation ophthalmologist, Melbourne Excimer Laser Group (Melbourne, 1991)
  • Foundation ophthalmologist, Maroondah Hospital Eye Clinic (Melbourne)
  • Foundation ophthalmologist, Vision Eye Institute (1999)
  • Past appointments with the Corneal Clinic, Eye Bank and Transplant Unit (Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital)
  • Epworth Hospital Medical advisory board
  • Foundation of the Eye Unit at Epworth Hospital Richmond
  • AUSCRS Committee of Management (1997–2014)
  • Foundation of Corneal Eye Bank at Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital with Dr Ian Robertson
  • Set up the first corneal endothelial cell count service (Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital)
  • Set up the fist adenovirus outpatient clinic (Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital)
  • Previously an ophthalmology consultant to pharmaceutical companies (Alcon, Allergan, 3M, Zeiss and Starr Surgical)
  • Foundation member, Melbourne Excimer Laser Research Group (1991–1992)
  • Protocol and ethics committee member of the Melbourne Excimer Laser Research Group (1992–1997)
  • Peer review editorial board member, Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (2001–2006) and Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (2007)
  • Member of the peer review panel for the Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine (JMTM)
  • Invited international lecturer touring India, Thailand and Singapore (2001)
  • Invited by Dr Lucio Buratto on two occasions to perform live complicated cataract surgery in Milan, Italy, with satellite video broadcast in Europe

Further information

Professional memberships
  • Current fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (FRANZCO)
  • Current member of the prestigious International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC) by invitation only
  • Current member of Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
  • Past fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS)
  • Past member of American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
  • Past member of Australian Medical Association
  • Past member of International Cataract Surgery Study Group
  • Past member of American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • Past member of Australasian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons
Community involvement & charitable work

Dr Stasiuk worked with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Port Hedland Hospital) and Indigenous Eye Clinic (Broome Hospital) with the Western Australian Department of Health. Dr Stasiuk was also an invited guest ophthalmologist to officially open a charitable eye hospital in New Delhi, India in 2001.

Awards
  • Video ‘Oscar’ award for Piggy-back lens implantation for severe hyperopia described as red rock syndrome, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) annual meeting, Boston, USA (2000)
Education & training
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Monash University, Victoria
  • Ophthalmology training, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Victoria
  • Postgraduate work with Professor Richard Lindstrom in intracorneal lenses and multifocal implants, Minneapolis, USA
  • Medical mentor for fellowships training in cataract refractive surgery and cataract surgery (Dr Mark Cherny, Dr Emanuele Svoboda and Dr Dean Corbett)
Personal life

Outside of work, Dr Ron Stasiuk enjoys spending quality time with his family – wife Rita, 4 children and 9 grandchildren. His special interests are in tennis, hiking, ballroom dancing, travelling (particularly in the Australian outback) and photography.

Research

Dr Stasiuk has undertaken research in vision correction procedures and technology. Some of the research projects he has worked on investigated viscoelastics, posterior chamber lens implants, multifocal implants, red rock syndrome with piggy-back implants, excimer laser surgery, and use of a trypan blue ophthalmic solution with pupil expanders in complicated cataract surgery.

Publications Congress posters and lectures
  • Comparison of penetrating and endothelial keratoplasty in patients with iridocorneal endothelial syndrome: A registry study

    Roberts PK, Keane M [...] all contributors to the Australian Corneal Graft Registry
    Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2023.
  • Aspheric IOL induces Fewer HOA in Large Pupil

    Stasiuk R.
    Ocular Surgery News USA, Jan 2006
    8(24)
  • IOL Considerations for Special Situations

    Stasiuk R.
    Ophthalmology Times Asia, 2004.
  • Update on the IOL Consideration

    Stasiuk R.
    Ophthalmology Time, Asia Ed, July 2004.
  • Patient Education Pamphlet on Refractive Surgery

    Stasiuk R.
    RANZCO, 2004.
  • Red Rock Syndrome: Opacification with Piggyback Implantation

    Stasiuk R.
    Ocular Surgery News, Europe-Asia-Pacific, Jan 2001
    12(1):9–13
  • Large Rhexis can Prevent Cell Growth

    Stasiuk R.
    Ocular Surgery News, Oct 2000.
    20(19):20
  • Red Rock Syndrome after Piggy-back IOL; Implantation – How to Avoid and Treat It

    Stasiuk R
    Euro-Times, May–June 2000
    5(4):23–25
  • Interface Elschnig pearl formation with piggyback implantation.

    Stasiuk R.
    J Cataract Refract Surg, Feb 2000
    26(2):158–9
  • Piggybacking IOLs involves hazards of PCO, membrane formation

    Stasiuk R.
    Ocular Surgery News, Dec 1999
  • Procedures that Surgeons should take to be successful with Array Implantation

    Stasiuk R.
    Vision Restoration – for achieving best uncorrected vision, 2nd Issue 1999, Slack Inc.
  • Update on the Diffractive Multifocal Implant and Astigmatism

    Stasiuk R.
    Ocular Surgery News International Edition, Oct 1994
    5:74
  • Modified Phaco Chop and Mini Chop for Very Hard Nuclei

    Stasiuk R.
    Ocular Surg News, June 1994
    5(6):16–19
  • Computerised Scheim Pflug Densitometry as a measure of corneal opacification following Excimer laser surgery

    Cherny, Stasiuk, Taylor, 1993.
  • A Clinical Experience with the Diffractive Multifocal Intraocular Lens Implants in Ophthal

    Stasiuk R.
    4:4, 1990.
Read more publications
  • Double Trouble

    Optometry Seminar, Blackburn, June 2007.
  • Status of Intraocular Lenses in Australia

    Invited international speaker, International Intraocular Implant Club, Kyoto, Japan, March 2007.
  • Clinical Cataract Case Presentation – Complete Care

    Optometry Seminar, Blackburn, November 2006.
  • Severe Hyperopia, Nanophthalmos

    Optometry Seminar, MCI, Melbourne, October 2006.
  • Surf is Up – latest in Wavefront

    AUSCRS, Hayman Island Qld, July 2006.
  • Phaco Chop 1996-2006-2016

    AUSCRS, Hayman Island Qld, July 2006.
  • Red Eye – Viral Keratoconjunctivitis

    Optometry Seminar, Blackburn June 2006.
  • Complex Case Presentations

    Optometry Seminar, Blackburn, March 2006.
  • Phakic IOLs, ICL

    Optometry Seminar, Melbourne, November 2005.
  • Aspheric IOLs

    Bausch & Lomb, Chairman, Melbourne June 2005
  • Red Eye – Viral Keratitis

    Optometry Seminar, Blackburn, June 2005.
  • Refractive Surgery Seminar – ICL Results

    Optometry Seminar, St Kilda Rd Melbourne, May 2006.
  • Unusual Clinical Cases Presentation

    Optometry Seminar, Blackburn, Nov 2005.
  • Ocular Aberrations with Cataracts & IOLs

    AUSCRS, Queenstown NZ, Aug 2005.
  • Complicated Cataract Surgery Video Case Presentation Zonular Dialysis

    AUSCRS, Queenstown NZ, Aug 2005.
  • Ocular Aberrations with Cataracts & IOLs

    AUSCRS, Queenstown NZ, Aug 2005.

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