Dr. Ralf Buhrmann is an experienced Glaucoma and Cataract Surgeon at the University of Ottawa Eye Institute who is dedicated to providing the highest level of care to his patients. He is pleased to join Herzig Eye Institute and be able to offer the full range of advanced refractive cataract surgery technologies. Dr. Buhrmann has performed over 12,000 cataract and glaucoma surgeries. He has been at the forefront of introducing microsurgical innovations to the Ottawa area including being first to use several types of intraocular lenses and the Xen implant for minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS).

Dr. Buhrmann is passionate about training ophthalmic surgeons. He is the founding director of the Ophthalmic Surgical Simulation Centre at the Ottawa Eye Institute and is an award-winning and sought-after surgical teacher.

Blindness prevention is of special interest to Dr. Buhrmann. Early in his career, he spent two years working in various countries in Africa. In 2002, he founded the Canadian Association for Public Health and Global Ophthalmology where he continues to serve on the executive team. Dr. Buhrmann was the lead author of the first Canadian Vision Health Strategy in 2007. He is a long serving member of the Program Planning Committee for the Canadian Ophthalmological Society annual conference and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and completed several book chapters.

Dr. Buhrmann received his medical school and ophthalmology training at McGill University where he graduated as a University Scholar as one of the top 10 in his medical school class. He completed a fellowship in glaucoma at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University where he also obtained a Master of Public Health and a PhD in clinical epidemiology.

If you are looking for local services or  treatment from your Local Ophthalmologist in the office or hospital from a Local Ophthalmologist, contact a provider such as ( Dr. Ralf Buhrmann ) to inquire if they are accepting patients or you need a referral.   Phone number to book an appointment (613) 737-8706

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( Dr. Ralf Buhrmann, Local Ophthalmologist Ottawa, ON ), may talk about some of the conditions and some of the treatment options shown on the videos. Always talk with your Local Ophthalmologist about the information you learnt from the videos in regards to treatments for What is Glaucoma? and procedures the Local Ophthalmologist could  perform and if they would be appropriate for you. Remember good information is the corner stone to understanding your condition or disease.

A local ophthalmologist is different from a local optometrist in that an optometrist doesn’t perform surgery. If you have a condition known as ocular hypertension, which is a result of high ocular pressure, your risk of developing glaucoma increases.Your optometrist or ophthalmologist may want to lower your IOP as a preventative measure.

Please contact ( Dr. Ralf Buhrmann, Local Ophthalmologist Ottawa, ON ) to enquire if this health care provider is accepting new patients.Patients are often concerned that an injection of material into their eye will be a painful or scary procedure. In fact, after the first or second injection, patients become quite at ease with the idea that they will have these injections, Following an intravitreal injection, you may feel pressure or grittiness in the eye, slight bleeding on the white of the eye and floaters in your vision. These are temporary and normal. As glaucoma progresses, it damages more and more of your optic nerve fibers, leading to vision loss. With primary open-angle glaucoma, the fluid can’t effectively flow back out of your eye. Angle-closure glaucoma occurs when the iris of the eye closes off the drainage angle completely, causing an increase in IOP pressure and damage to the optic nerve.

Glaucoma is a condition where there is increased pressure within the eyeball, causing damage to the optic nerve and gradual loss of sight.  If glaucoma is detected early preventative measures can be taken to save vision loss.

Cataracts can affect both eyes or just one, and some patients experience mild symptoms, while others can barely see any shapes or movements. Cataract symptoms include blurry vision, haloes, sensitivity to bright lights, decreased night vision, frequent changes in eyeglass prescriptions, and faded colours.